« BACK  |  PRINT

RS

FRONT PAGE CONTRIBUTOR

Fred Clark (D-CAND, WI-SEN): would-be abuser.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 14th, 2011 at 10:00 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

I say ‘would-be’ because Rep. Clark (who is running against incumbent Wisconsin Senator Luther Olsen in the upcoming recall election) doesn’t have the nerve to say things like the below to a constituent’s face:

FC: “Ok.  I feel like calling her back and smacking her around.”

Nope!  Clark’s much more comfortable with waiting until he thinks that she’s off the phone, and only then playing tough-guy.  Which is how people like this operate, of course.  I don’t know where the character quote (which I probably mangled, anyway) came from, originally, but it’s true: the best way to find out how a person really acts is to somehow observe him or her when there’s nobody else around.  Good thing that Wisconsin voters got an earful, huh?

More here: and remember, Fred Clark is supposedly a hardworking and progressive legislator.  At least, by Wisconsin Democratic standards.  Which apparently are sufficiently low that reacting this badly to the intolerable affront of being hung up on doesn’t exclude people like Clark from consideration for higher office.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: Luther Olsen for WI-SEN, and the rest of the Republican recall candidates.

Tags: , , , , ,

COMMENTS

POSTING RULES  |  LOGIN TO COMMENT  |  REGISTER TODAY
  • Duke

    and I need your vote to defeat someone with common sense!

    Let me take the time to defend one of our Wisconsin Thugs: At least he’s not as bad as State Rep. Gordon Hinz, known for his now famous quote,” You’re f’ing dead,” said to a female (Republican) collegue on the floor of the Wisconsin Assembly.

    Thugs!

  • ja_ak

    “A man has integrity when his interest in the good of the service is at all times greater than his own personal pride, and when he holds himself to the same line of duty when unobserved as he would follow if his superiors were present.”

  • johnt

    A constituent called Stark’s office, spoke to a staffer. Later, Stark annoyed, his rabies bothering him more than usual, called back and left a raving, vituperative message on the answering machine. It would seem that Clark will always be a minor leaguer, not a real player like Stark, Weiner, and the Big Guy himself, The O. He doesn’t reach the all important Maximum Viciousness Standard of the party, thereby he may be consigned always to the minor leagues,
    But he can always learn.

  • dapicayune

    DS Wasserman, DNC Chair, needs to speak out about this political attack against American women! Or, is she more interested in harming unborn babies?