Attorney says 'sexting' Wis. prosecutor to resign

[sonomak]

Source: Associated Press

A Wisconsin prosecutor facing removal from office over accusations that he used his position to seek relationships with women will resign instead, his attorney said Monday. Attorney Robert Craanen said Calumet County District Attorney Ken Kratz will step down before Oct. 8, the date for a hearing on his possible removal from office.

Craanen spoke to reporters after a meeting at the Chilton courthouse on proceedings Gov. Jim Doyle initiated for Kratz's removal. Kratz was not present and did not immediately return a phone message left on his cell phone.

Kratz, a Republican, had been the top prosecutor in the eastern Wisconsin county south of Green Bay since 1992. He had faced demands for his resignation since earlier this month, when The Associated Press reported he sent text messages to a domestic abuse victim while he was prosecuting her ex-boyfriend on a strangulation charge. In them, he called the woman a "hot nymph" and asked if she was "the kind of girl that likes secret contact with an older married elected DA."

Lawmakers, the governor and victims' advocates were outraged, and the news only got worse for Kratz. An Oklahoma law student said she received similar texts in 2008 after Kratz supported her request for a pardon on an old drug charge. A woman complained to Doyle's office that Kratz invited her to a date at an autopsy. Other women who have stayed anonymous made similar allegations to a local newspaper and a civil rights attorney.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100927/ap_on_re_us/us_wisconsin_prosecutor_sexting

[edbermac]

1. Kratz invited her to a date at an autopsy??????

How romantic!

[tblue37]

2. Shouldn't those roses be dead? nt

[sce56]

3. That is so un republican! Not a closeted wide stance sort of thing!

Maybe we just have not heard about the diapers yet!

[speppin]

4. Kratz was also the longtime chairman of the Wisconsin Crime Victims' Rights Board,

He is the worst kind of predictor--using his office to lure women!

Kratz was also the longtime chairman of the Wisconsin Crime Victims' Rights Board, which investigates and sanctions public officials who violate crime victims' rights. He stepped down from that post in December under pressure from state officials.

[Blue_Tires]

5. i wonder how many other shattered psyches he saw as easy targets