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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Ind. Gov't. - Another Indiana attorney loses job over Wisconsin labor issue [Updated]
First it was Indiana Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Cox. Now it is Johnson County Deputy Prosecutor Carlos Lam. Cox reportedly urged use of live ammunition against Wisconsin protesters. Lam reportedly sent an email to the Governor of Wisconsin suggesting:
“If you could employ an associate who pretends to be sympathetic to the unions’ cause to physically attack you (or even use a firearm against you), you could discredit the unions,” the email said.The quote is from an email, reproduced in full in this story from WisconsinWatch.org. WISHTV this evening has a briefer, albeit perhaps clearer, version of the story.
The stories report that Lam sent the email last weekend; they do not comment on whether Lam was aware of the earlier Cox incident.
[Updated at 9:25 pm] I just took another look at the Lam email's date - it is Feb. 19th. That is the same date, Saturday, Feb. 19th, that Jeffrey Cox sent his tweet, so it was not the "earlier Cox incident" after all. See also Charles Wilson's AP story.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 24, 2011 06:57 PM
Posted to Indiana Government