pudge's Journal: Fred Walser Makes Things Up Yet Again

In a Fred Walser mail piece I received today, under the header, "Sometimes, our elected officials do confusing things...," Fred Walser claims that incumbent Senator "Val Stevens told local residents they didn't have to cooperate with police. She said, they should hold up a card that reads, 'you don't have authority over me.'"

As usual -- Fred Walser was convicted in June of lying to public officials, and sentenced to a year in jail for it -- Fred Walser is lying. His language clearly implies that Stevens is talking about all residents and all police, but Stevens was specifically and clearly talking about tribal police having no authority over non-tribal residents. Lies by omission and implication are still lies.

And what she said was based on an opinion from the state Attorney General's office, which had just concluded that tribal police officers "generally lack authority to issue citations to non-Indians for traffic activity on public roadways and highways" on reservations.

Apart from the fact that Fred Walser is lying, Walser also is apparently implying that he believes that tribal police SHOULD have authority over non-tribal residents, which isn't necessarily the best position to take in the 39th District.

Fred Walser continues to have a serious problem simply telling the truth, like when he filed a false sexual harassment report, manufactured a fake log in a coverup, told an officer to fake an overtime log, and so on. On Tuesday I went to a forum held by the Monroe Chamber of Commerce, in which Fred Walser took credit for things he never did, including getting money for U.S. 2 safety during the last legislative session.

Fred Walser even had the gall to say he wants to work on "accountability" and "openness and transparency" in government, despite -- as a public official himself -- lying to the public for over a year.

Fred Walser has not given the people a single reason to trust him in the face of his many violations of the public trust, and blatantly lying about his opponent in a mail piece isn't going to help him gain a single voter's trust.

Cross-posted on <pudge/*>.

Question

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So is this race looking to be close or are you just trying to not take anything for granted? Considering his guilty plea, that he's running against an incumbent and generally just seems like a real tool, as an outsider, it seems hard to believe that he'd have any chance. If he actually does, that's really pretty frightening.

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[pudge]

So is this race looking to be close or are you just trying to not take anything for granted? Considering his guilty plea, that he's running against an incumbent and generally just seems like a real tool, as an outsider, it seems hard to believe that he'd have any chance. If he actually does, that's really pretty frightening.

He has a chance -- not a strong one, but an outside one -- ONLY because people DO NOT KNOW what he did. The press have barely reported on it, and even then, mostly poorly.

People will know, though.