Wisconsin — America's Self-Serious Dairyland

By Chuck Sudo in News on Mar 2, 2011 10:20PM

Guess we can add "no ability to laugh at themselves" to the Wisconsin GOP's growing litany of ills. After Buffalo Beast editor Ian Murphy duped Gov. Scott Walker into believing he was billionaire Tea Party financier David Koch and Walker indicated the levels of trickery he considered to swing the collective bargaining debate in his favor, two Republican legislators in Madison began drafting legislation to ban the exact types of prank calls that Walker fell for.

The language in the bill by State Sen. Mary Lazich of Waukesha and Milwaukee Rep. Mark Honadel would forbid a caller from providing an intentionally false phone number, and from convincing the call's recipient that it's coming from anyone other than the caller. Lazich and Honadel wrote in an e-mail to legislators.

“While use of spoofing is said to have some legitimate uses, it can also be used to frighten, harass and potentially defraud."

Which would be unlike the frightening, harassment and potential defrauding the Wisconsin GOP is doing to labor unions in stripping them of their collective bargaining rights.

For what it's worth, if this legislation did pass, it would likely be overturned in a court challenge. The Supremacy Clause would supercede this, if it were passed into law. So would Original Jurisdiction.