Republished from The Prairie Badger
It’s official: Brad Schimel’s campaign for Attorney General of Wisconsin has completely collapsed.
Schimel admitted on a Oshkosh cable access program called Eye on Oshkosh that, if he were the attorney general of a state were interracial marriage was banned in the 1950’s, he would have defended the ban on interracial marriage.
Even though Schimel made his offensive remarks last month, Wisconsin Democrats have recently brought this to the attention of the Wisconsin mainstream media, and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel is now running this piece about Schimel’s pro-discrimination stance on their website. Here’s what the MJS had to say about Schimel admitting that he would have opposed interracial marriage had he been in a position to do so six decades ago:
As he discussed his stance on that issue last month on an Oshkosh cable access program, he was asked if it would have been his obligation to defend a ban on interracial marriage if he had been an attorney general in a state with such a law 60 years ago.
He sighed and said, “Yeah, it is.”
“It might be distasteful to me …but I’ve got to stay consistent with that — as the state’s lawyer, it’s not my job to pick and choose.”
The U.S. Supreme Court in 1967 ruled Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage was unconstitutional.
Brad Schimel thinks he’s running for Attorney General of a Jim Crow state in the 1950’s, not Attorney General of Wisconsin in 2014. The fact that Schimel brazenly admitted that he would have defended Jim Crow laws discriminating against couples who wish to marry simply because one person is of a different race than the other person proves that he’s unfit for any public office, let alone that of Wisconsin’s top prosecutor.
It looks like Susan Happ is going to be Wisconsin’s next attorney general, as Brad Schimel has completely embarrassed Wisconsin throughout his campaign for attorney general.