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Monitoring Group Slams Gableman Ad Featuring Convicted Rapist
Gableman Running For Supreme Court Seat
UPDATED: 5:56 pm CDT March 17,
2008
MADISON, Wis. -- An independent group monitoring the state Supreme Court race said that the first television ad by Burnett County Judge Michael Gableman is "highly offensive and deliberately misleading."The Wisconsin Judicial Campaign Integrity Committee called on Gableman on Monday to take the ad off the air. The group said that the spot is in the offensive, race-bating style reminiscent of the Willie Horton ad from the 1988 presidential race.The ad places a picture of a convicted rapist and Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler on the screen at the same time. Both are black. Butler handled the man's appeal of his rape conviction when he worked as a public defender.The group said that the ad is unbecoming of Gableman as a sitting judge.
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