Whistleblower cop in Scott Walker accusations paying a heavy price

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Jazz Shaw

September 20, 2014

 

Earlier this week, our colleague Guy Benson covered the hyper-partisan nature of the attacks on Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker as election day approaches, and in particular, the role played by John Chisolm. His efforts to tear down Walker are quickly becoming the stuff of legend.

 

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After news broke about this witch hunt, Chisholm didn’t take it well at all. Apparently there was a massive hunt to find out who in the circle of those in the know had been talking out of school. As Legal Newsline reports, Chisholm’s people were leaving no stone unturned to identify the culprit.

 

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They found their guy, in the person of Michael Lutz, a decorated and disabled-in-the-line-of-duty police officer who worked with John Chisholm, first as a police officer and later in the district attorney’s office. One “journalist” at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel got rather personal in rooting out the source.

 

The feared retaliation was not long in coming. The Journal Sentinel’s Dan Bice, whose “political watchdog” column is titled “No Quarter,” appeared after dark at the source’s home on Sept. 11. Bice’s persistent door-bell ringing and heavy knocks awakened and frightened the source’s sleeping 12-year-old daughter, he said. The noise was so loud that a neighbor came out to investigate the din, he said.

 

When the source, a decorated and disabled-in-the-line-of-duty police officer, Michael Lutz, came to the door, he opened it a crack to hear Bice demand to know if he was the person quoted in the story. He did not deny it and speaks exclusively on the record in this story for the first time.

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