UNDATED (WSAU-Wheeler News) A spokesman for U-S Senator Tammy Baldwin calls a new ethics complaint against her a “political hit job.”
Marquette Baylor filed a complaint with the Senate’s Ethics Select Committee, after the Wisconsin Democrat fired her in January as Baldwin’s deputy state director. Baylor said she was made the scapegoat, once it became known that Baldwin’s office took no action on a V-A report which outlined drug over-prescriptions at the V-A Medical Center in Tomah. The complaint said Baldwin made false statements and covered up actions by her chief-of-staff Bill Murat in order to “protect her political career.”
Murat replied, “It’s sad that Marquette Baylor has chosen to be used as a pawn by Senator Baldwin’s right-wing Republican opponents in what is nothing more than a political hit job by a ‘go-to Republican firm.’”
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said a G-O-P law firm from Kansas City drafted her 16-page ethics complaint. Baldwin’s office said she has taken responsibility for mistakes in the handling of the V-A report, and has taken steps to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
A Baldwin attorney recently said she was let go for long-term performance issues on a number of matters.
