Ron Johnson is the Republican Tea Party U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. Replaced Democrat Russ Feingold in 2010. Ignoramus.
Bill Kramer is a Republican Wisconsin Assemblyman. Elected last year Majority Leader of the State Assembly. Recently charged with second-degree sexual assault.
What's the connection between the two?
Johnson did not tell police of allegations three years ago that Kramer assaulted Johnson's female Senatorial aide. The Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, April 5,2014:
The woman told her supervisor in Johnson's office and a number of other people, but decided at the time to have her attorney send a letter to Kramer rather than go to the police, records show. Last month — nearly three years after the alleged assault outside a Muskego bar — the woman learned of Kramer's alleged mistreatment of other women and filed a complaint with Muskego police that has resulted in two felony charges of second-degree sexual assault.In the meantime, Kramer's Assembly colleagues elected him last fall to the job of majority leader, the No. 2 position in that house. Before that vote, some Republicans in the Assembly who opposed Kramer's bid raised concerns about his behavior.But neither Johnson nor anyone from his office contacted Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester), who has led that body since January 2013, or Jeff Fitzgerald, who served as speaker at the time of the alleged 2011 assault.
The Journal Sentinel article goes on to state that:
about five hours after the Journal Sentinel published the information online, Johnson's office issued a statement saying that when the woman spoke with Johnson and his chief of staff, Tony Blando, she already had an attorney. "Senator Johnson and Mr. Blando conveyed their commitment to be 100% supportive of any actions she chose to pursue on the advice of her legal counsel — up to and including the filing of criminal charges," the statement said. "She requested that Senator Johnson and Mr. Blando keep the matter confidential and take no further action. Senator Johnson and Mr. Blando fully honored her request."
So really, it was the victim who wanted it kept quiet, and anyway, why would the Wisconsin State Assembly care about whether they were about to elect a Majority Leader who had committed a sexual assault on a U.S. Senator's aide?