I know that it has been quite a while since I posted on DKos. But I couldn't let this story go by. It's on my blog, ThisBlackSista's Page. I got this from the Recall Scott Walker Planned Recall Committee in the late afternoon.
It's only been confirmed by Paul Tascoupé of Politiscoop. It appears that Walker stalwart Luther Olsen, currently running against Democrat Fred Clark in a recall election, got a girl pregnant. And not just any girl.
Apparently everyone in his part of the state has known about it. Now everyone in the state is going to know, too.
Oh, man. This is so rich.
They say that what a politician's got to worry about is a live boy or a dead girl in their bed.
But what about impregnating a teenage babysitter?
This came over the transom on my Facebook feed, andit's from PolitiScoop's Paul Tascoupé. It's a few hours old. Read. It. All.
Ever since Senator Luther Olsen had an ethics complaint filed against him, Politiscoop has been looking into the Olsen’s past. At first there wasn't much in the way of things other than a divorce in 2004 and then marriage to Joan Wade in 2006 but then we recently received an email from an anonymous source that revealed some dark and sickening details.
On its face, we were skeptical of the information we received saying that Senator Luther Olsen had impregnated a teenage babysitter. Immediately we attempted to contact some people in Berlin Wisconsin that knew Olsen in order to get more information on the this situation, since Olsen seems to dodge the press other than in debates. As we made these contacts we received responses such as, "Oh you are talking about the babysitter thing." When that second flag went up, we knew we had to make some more phone calls to see who might know about the babysitter "thing." The next response we got was "Oh you mean the babysitter baby?” I must say when those words were uttered I was flabbergasted and appalled.
We were then directed to someone who knew a bit more about the situation. Politiscoop was told that at some point in time, Senator Olsen, had intercourse and impregnated his teenage babysitter and that the father was apparently paid off in order to keep it quiet. Obviously Politiscoop had some questions for Senator Olsen about this matter so we made a trip down to Waupaca last night to cover the debate and get answers to our questions. [...Y]ou will see (above) the interview of Senator Olsen after the debate which was abruptly cut off by his wife Joan who gave Olsen the sign to end it when the subject of Planned Parenthood came up.
Tascoupé ends the story with the following money questions:
Did you impregnate your babysitter and was there a payoff to the father?
If so, was the money used for an abortion?
Oh, the hypocrisy. He's the one running the incessant TV ads about his
Democratic challenger,
Fred Clark, and Clark's reckless driving problems. Especially when it came to smashing his
SUV into a bicyclist and running red lights with a suspended license. But I think that this story, which may indeed be true, may bring Olsen up to equal standing with Clark as far as irresponsibility is concerned.
And didn't Olsen help to deny Planned Parenthood state funds recently? Planned Parenthood targeted him even before they got cut. Ya know, these guys only need Planned Parenthood when they've made a mistake, and need something, anything to help them clean up their messes. When they're in the clear, who cares about girls and women who cannot have a/nother child, or need quality pre-natal care, or knowledge about how their bodies actually work, or how to protect themselves against venereal disease or other
STDs.
This news is really going to piss off his right-wing, anti-abortion friends. And his Tea Party adherents. But what goes on in the dark can't help but come out into the light. And it couldn't happen to a "nicer" guy.