Complaint That Butler Received Illegal Corporate Contributions

Dad29 is all over this Butler complaint. 

Seems that the law offices of Finerty, Friebert, and St. John (a corporation) were also the offices of Louis Butler’s campaign. That’s easy to understand; FFStJ is the Democrat Party in law practice and has been for years; they’re well-organized, they have outstanding legal secretaries who are meticulous, they keep records well, etc., etc.

So if you’re going to have someone maintain documents, track ins/outs of donations and payments, why not friendly professionals? Especially if they do all that stuff for free?

Bob Dohnal will tell you “why not”: Wis. Stat. 11.38(1), which forbids, absolutely, and without reserve, ANY corporate contributions to ANY candidate for office in the State of Wisconsin.

To make matters more interesting, it seems that Louis Butler did not recuse himself when hearing cases brought to SCOWI by Finerty, Friebert & St.John—nor did he mention that they were maintaining his campaign HQ (and so forth) without recompense. Dohnal suggests that SCR 66.02 and 66.03 of the Wisconsin Judicial Code of Ethics address that. Negatively.

I thought that it was Gableman who was in the pocket of corporate Wisconsin.  All of those ads must be confusing me.