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"As Cuvier would correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone," observed Sherlock Holmes in one of Arthur Conan Doyle's famous short stories, "so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents, should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after."

 

In the spirit of Sherlock Holmes, super-sleuth Wisconsin Democrats are now poring over thousands of recently released emails, hoping they can find one that will convince voters that Gov. Scott Walker is a serial scofflaw.

 

On Wednesday, over 27,000 pages of emails received and sent by Walker's deputy chief of staff when he was Milwaukee county executive, Kelly Rindfleisch, were made public; Rindfleisch has been convicted of one felony count of misconduct in office for doing campaign work at her government job. (She is appealing the conviction.)

 

Of course, Rindfleisch's conviction took place before Walker's 2012 recall election, and her activities failed to disquiet the voters' consciences: He won against the same opponent by a larger margin than he had two years earlier. And last March, prosecutors dropped the John Doe investigation into Walker's office without laying a finger on the governor, clearing him of any criminal wrongdoing.

 

But that hasn't kept Democrats from charging headlong toward the Walker windmill. So far, Walker's opponents have seized on three primary documents to prove he knew about a "secret network" his staff installed in his office to circumvent open records laws while discussing campaign activity.

 

In one email, Walker's administration director at the county, Cynthia Archer, wrote to Rindfleisch, saying, "Consider yourself now in the 'inner circle.'" Archer then added:

 

"I use this private account quite a bit to communicate with SKW and Nardelli. You should be sure you check it throughout the day." ("SKW" refers to Scott Kevin Walker.)

 

In this email, liberals believe they have found their smoking gun. Slate's Emma Roller wrote that the email "directly implicates Walker in breaking campaign law."

 

But all this email demonstrates is that Walker used a campaign email account to conduct campaign business — something every incumbent politician in America does. It in no way suggests he was aware his staff was using a different router to check the emails he was sending them or vice versa.

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Whole lotta nothin'.


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