gableman Says his Willie Horton Ad Aainst Louis Butler Was "true"

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Bullshit
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MADISON, Wis. — State Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman was uncomfortable with the tone of a campaign ad suggesting his opponent helped free a convicted rapist, but ultimately decided not to revise it, according to documents filed Wednesday.
The state Judicial Commission has accused Gableman of knowingly running a misleading ad in violation of ethics rules. Gableman filed a nine-page response to the complaint Wednesday reiterating the ad was accurate.

"The facts of the case demonstrate two critical things," said Gableman's attorney, James Bopp, Jr. "The first is what was stated in the ad was true, not false. And second, that then-Judge Gableman took every reasonable effort to ensure the ad was true."

The ad showed a picture of Butler, the state's first black justice, next to a mug shot of black convicted rapist Reuben Lee Mitchell. A narrator claimed, "Butler found a loophole. Mitchell went on to molest another child."

Butler represented Mitchell as a public defender when Mitchell appealed his 1985 conviction for raping an 11-year-old girl. Butler convinced an appeals court Mitchell deserved a new trial.

The three-judge commission accused Gableman of violating an ethics rule that bars judges from knowingly misrepresenting facts about an opponent. The panel contends Gableman knew Butler wasn't responsible for Mitchell's release and second rape when he approved the ad, amounting to willful misconduct.

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1. So what happens when someone is accused of willful

misconduct? Does he get a slap on the wrist or does he have to step down?