cBride, in her post, goes on to challenge the Jensen prosecution on grounds of cost: “I’d be willing to bet that the prosecution cost the taxpayers more money than the supposedly illegal campaigning did. That would be a great question for the media to ask the Dane County DA: Mr. Blanchard, what was the bill?”
Well, as Woody Allen says in Annie Hall, it so happens that we have Marshall McLuhan right here.
“Ms. McBride is wrong on the comparison of costs,” writes Blanchard in response to an e-mail from Isthmus. (Hmm, why didn’t McBride, a former reporter, think to try this?) “Easily many millions of dollars in public money are not currently being spent – and will not be spent in the foreseeable future – on anything resembling the large partisan caucus offices that Republican and Democratic legislators alike used in recent years to run private campaigns.