Gwen Moore pays election day tire slasher

Jessica's McBrides blog at WTMJ 620am

SATURDAY, Nov. 11, 2006, 11:51 p.m.

Gwen Moore pays election day tire slasher as campaign consultantYeah, I know. He's her son. Unbelievable. Congresswoman Gwen Moore's son is convicted of election-day vandalism. Her response? Hire him as a paid political consultant to her campaign. Wonder what he's being paid to do? Use your own imagination.

A Republican would never get away with this. Spivak and Bice, of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, report:Not only does the Milwaukee Democrat have her sister Brenda on the campaign payroll to the tune of nearly $40,000 annually, as we reported last year, but Moore now has brought on her 27-year-old son, Sowande Omokunde, also known as Supreme Solar Allah.

Recent campaign reports show Moore, who was easily re-elected to a second term, paid her son $1,500 in October for political consulting. Omokunde told others that he was the campaign's deputy field director.Neither the congresswoman nor her sister returned calls Friday.

As you may recall, Omokunde was one of four Democratic staffers who pleaded guilty to misdemeanors for slashing tires on 25 vans hours before Republican Party officials were to use them to drive voters to the polls on election day 2004.

In April, Omokunde was sentenced to four months in jail and fined $1,000 for his role in the much-publicized caper.

The national media made a big deal when Tom DeLay was accused of doing this for his wife and daughter, although in far greater dollar amounts. But they weren't convicted of election-day vandalism in the very district where their husband/father was on the ballot.

Will the national media pick up this?

The Democrat left has no shame!