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Wisconsin Democratic Aide Compares Scott Walker to Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer

Mar. 2, 2013 8:58am Madeleine Morgenstern

Wisconsin Democratic Aide Graeme Zielinski Compares Scott Walker to Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer

A top Wisconsin Democratic aide was forced to apologize after comparing Republican Gov. Scott Walker to notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

Democratic Party spokesman Graeme Zielinski posted three tweets making the comparison Friday after prosecutors closed a long-running probe into several Walker aides, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported. Dahmer, Wisconsin’s most infamous murderer, was known for saving and eating his victim’s body parts.

“@GovWalker had better lawyers than Jeffrey Dahmer in beating the rap. Clear that he committed crimes,” Zielinski wrote in one tweet.

In another one, he asked, “What do @GovWalker and Jeffrey Dahmer have in common?” without answering himself.

Zielinski’s tweets drew rebuke both from Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett — who twice lost out to Walker for the governor’s seat — and from his boss, Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate.

Barrett called Zielinski’s words “Way over the top and very inappropriate,” while Tate offered his own apology.

“Graeme’s tweet is inappropriate, overzealous and insensitive,” Tate said in an email to the Journal Sentinel. “He should have chosen a different comparison point in pointing out Gov. Walker has had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to avoid criminal charges. He and I regret his comment.”

Image source: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

Zielinski later posted two apologies to Twitter, one to Walker and one to Dahmer’s victims.

My heartfelt apologies to the victims of Jeffrey Dahmer. Their pain is not something with which I should have trifled.

— Graeme Zielinski (@gjzielinski) March 2, 2013

And my apologies to @govwalker for my inappropriate Tweeting.

— Graeme Zielinski (@gjzielinski) March 2, 2013

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Zeke48
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:42am
This is just what to expect from a liberal. Have we ever seen any other kind of response from them that isn’t name calling or wanting the right to look like they are the very worst. This is the party that cares about people. The folks they care about is themselves. Just consider the source. Would you believe anything Al Sharpton or Chris Mathews said. I feel sorry for these people, they all live a life full of hate and are never happy.

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- SpankDaMonkey
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 10:07am
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  Inorder to save the country “Please Spay & Neuter your Democrats”…..
  
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- Capt_Gregg
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 10:10am
  Let them continue with their ridiculous over-the-top comments. Their inane pronouncements only serve to reveal just how batcrap crazy they are.
  
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- michael48
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 10:34am
  he will be promoted…recieve $100,000.00 bone azz and a 7-11 store…and part of chairman oBlamos 4 some in the next destruction of some unsuspecting golf course..special seating on the AF1 golf cart…sevre punishment…indeed…FOR US..
  
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- Ben__Franklin
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 10:44am
  When Liberals Attack. Their playbook has been wide open as we watched Wisconsin and Gov Walker in action.
  
  A. They take their ball and run home to Chicago because they have no spine and refuse to come back if the rules they want to change are not followed.
  
  B. Plan A fails and Republicans find a way to play ball without them. They then find a Liberal judge with no authority or jurisdiction to sue and stop the Republicans from playing ball.
  
  C. Plan B Fails, and the Republicans get to keep playing ball. The Liberals are now really upset and try to get the Republicans head coach fired through a recall.
  
  D. Plan C Fails, as the Liberals find out just how much they are in the minority in Wis. No Gov has ever survived a Recall – But Walker did. Almost 90% of the districts of Wis voted for Walker to stay.
  
  E. The Liberals are soo furious they have lost with no recourse that its time to start the name calling.
  
  F. Plan E fails as the head Liberal Master has to apologize.
  
  So whats plan G Liberals? Violence? That is where your group typically goes next.
  
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- 83plus
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 11:13am
  I can just imagine the left’s reaction if someone on the GOP side, a known conservative or tea party member said that about a Democrat governor. The left would go insane over it.
  
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- 83plus
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 11:16am
  But since it’s a Democrat going after a GOP guy. Expect little to nothing in outrage, does the left care? Hardly. What about the guy who said it? If he did would he have said it?
  
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- dwsmokin
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 11:46am
  Great thing about Twitter-you can make a fool out of yourself in 128 characters or less. We see it every day. Interesting that the Party that wants to lead us couldn’t find their own way out of bathtub-funny yet sad at the same time.
  
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- OlefromMN
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 12:20pm
  Have you ever noticed all of the whacked out Dems are about the homeliest humans on the planet? This guy bears a striking resemblance to Jim Messina.
  
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- cosette
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 12:26pm
  What do Zielinski and Dahmer have in common? They’re both dead from the neck up.
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:51am
  Right out of saul alinskis rules for radical.
  
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whatthecrazy
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:41am
Well there you have it,anymore questions as to WTH is wrong with our Country?Excuse me as i go bury my head back in sand.:((

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termyt
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:41am
If you can’t win by votes, cry to the courts. If you can’t win in court, vilify and demean until you get your way. There is no shame.

Or we to believe that anyone who presents as vigorous a defense as a serial killer is also guilty?

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Sharon Rose
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:38am
What a dirtbag, nothing but hate from the libs.

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wilbstal
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:35am
Wisc Dem will get taken care of by a Wisc patriot. USA dont need any more dumb Communist if any offices anywhere in USA

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Acena
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:34am
Democrats think slander and defamation are clever political tactis and economic blackmail is discussing the debt.

They love to pretend that the majority of sociopaths,PD,serial killers,murderers and violent criminals aren’t democrats,the KKK wasn’t democrats and Hitler wasn’t a progressive democrat .

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- barber2
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:45am
  Yes. Hitler was a National SOCIALIST ! Guess the Democrats rely on their base to be too ignorant to know any history….
  
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- The Big Mick
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 12:41pm
  F.Hayek in “The Road to Serfdom” back in the 40s demonstrated the whole “Left-Right” linear political spectrum was a MYTH. L.Neil Smith and other Libertarian writers did likewise in the 80s. In the millennial issue of TIME, Tom Wolfe pointed out that Hitler and Stalin, far from being the Polar Opposites of the Commiequeer’s* Myth were actually Fraternal, if Fratricidal, Collectivist Statist Socialist Twins.
  
  *my semantically accurate usage for the “terminological inexactitudes” “liberal” “left” “progressive”.
  
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Buck99
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:34am
I have no idea what Scott Walker and Jeffrey Dahmer have to do with each other. They’re both from Wisconsin? They’re both male? I don’t get it. Isn’t there a rule that if you want to zing somebody on Twitter that at least one other person has to understand what your analogy is? Fail.

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- Walkabout
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:54am
  The Democrats must believe that Jeffrey Dahmer & Scott Walker are both gay.
  
  They are just waiting for Scott Walker to run for president before dropping the boom. Ya that is it. Gays speculate about these things endlessly like if Senator Mark Kirk was gay & could they get the proof.
  
  Since Democratic Party spokesman Graeme Zielinsk brought it up, let’s look at it. If Jeffrey Dahmer had not been mentally ill, would he have been gay?
  
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truemedia
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:34am
I would like to see The Blaze put together the list for the number from tolerant and compassionate Lib’s inflammatory comments about conservative and vice versa! I bet their not tolerant or compassionate!

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OlefromMN
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:33am
And we are told that if the Republicans dare point out tough facts regarding Democrat techniques and policy failure it would somehow turn off the “independents” and they would go running back into the arms of the DNC?

The entire Democrat party is flippen nuts. There are no sane ones left.

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bannedfromCNN
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:31am
Liberals are a diseased bunch.

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flatlandbroncofan
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:30am
I don’t get it did Gov. Walker not balance the budget, create a surplus,keep everyone employed and pretty much do everything correctly on the way to run a state. So what is up this sniveling little schmucks problem, he can’t stand success?

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Jenny Lind
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:27am
How sad it is all name calling , hoping people die and gross over the top lying from that party. I am starting to see some light though, even noneducated voters are starting to see something isn’t quite right with this administration. High school kids who have been taught good things about Woodward are not happy this administration is trying to bring down an icon, and they are talking about it and asking very good questions. It has been an opprtunity to talk about true reporting, backed by real facts not fiction. Yes! Happy day!

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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:26am
Walker a a Homosexual murderer? Sounds more like their lord and savior,Obama. Obama has been on a killing spree for over 4 years!

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mrja
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:24am
These progressives sure are a classy bunch ;-)

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dadsrootbeer
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:23am
Saul Alinsky would be proud.

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MDECKER
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:21am
What you don’t know is, Zielinski and Dahmer often traded recipes for spleen and kidney dishes.

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- Fubared
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:43am
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVlkZVAw8Gc
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:15am
Progressives are nasty little candy@ssses huh? Notice how they attack anyone who advances the idea of freedom and limited government.

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JimmyP
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:15am
Ever notice how people who suffer from some particular psychological weirdness always seem to find that same abnormality in everyone else?

Like the little kid caught with cookie crumbs on his face blaming his imaginary friend???

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klatoo
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:15am
Can we please stop calling the democrats the “democratic” party? That term to me is offensive. They are anything but democratic. They are democrats. They aren’t nice and democracy is not on their radar screen.

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- BlackCrow
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 10:13am
  Call them what they are; COMMUNISTS!
  
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- rambosharley
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 12:31pm
  I been calling them Communist for quite some time!
  
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- The Big Mick
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 12:37pm
  my term is commiequeers.
  This indicates their unnatural love for a dead economic system off the failed ash heap of history, and addresses their common agenda of pushing pervdom.
  
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stopprintn
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:11am
These Saul Alinsky tactics seem to backfire in their faces. Evil freaks!

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Advection
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:11am
Democrat politicians, and their minions, are insane.

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newsman76
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:10am
I guess name calling is the only thing we get done in congress. Comparing someone to a serial killer is beyond low. There are so many issues we should be focusing on like S.B. 54

Senate Bill 54: Sell A Gun To Someone Who Smokes A Joint Or A Veteran Get 20 Years In Jail

http://govtslaves.info/senate-bill-54-sell-a-gun-to-someone-who-smokes-a-joint-or-a-veteran-get-20-years-in-jail/

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barber2
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:10am
This jerk is just like the Obama Camp in the Woodward case : abuse someone on the phone or in the media with threats and smears and then issue an apology . Too little. Too late. The damage is already done. The New Radical Left Democrats are a new and dangerous breed who really threaten our country’s very fabric by abusing the freedoms it affords them to divide and polarize the country. AND they are getting away with this. I do think they are trying to cause a revolution – just like their international best buddies . All united in hate, anger, ” change ” and anarchy.

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NHwinter
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:07am
Comments like this are the reason Democrats have no validity anymore. They are just crude and ignorant. Gov. Walker’s record is outstanding. Just name calling and bashing, just like Obama does. Hasn’t Obama really set a horrible example. Divisive and stupid.

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:19am
  Barry sure has remember his ‘get your revenge’ during the campaign? Well we’re all going to pay for keeping that vile man in power.
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:06am
These constant defamation moves comparing Republicans to the worst of the worst in American criminal history is deliberate and being coordinated from the White House; it will only get worse and I wonder how long until the assaults become literal instead of just verbal.

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- grimmster
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:31am
  @Snow.
  The left keeps doing this in hopes of inciting someone on the right to go “postal”, the left needs a war, or an attempt at one, so odumbass can declare martial law.They have been doing this since the day the muslim in chief trook office,and yet those on the right, wont take the bait. Sooner or later some leftwing nut job will get it started, they cant wait forever,and the carnage the right will reap unon the left will be horrendous.So i will continue to hide and watch, and buy more ammo.,and wait……..
  
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- barber2
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 9:41am
  Agree. We have witnessed the Democrat Media Character Assassination Squad for the past 4 years. They have ruined reputations for years. These radical Left Democrats are a new and dangerous breed who encourage and attract disorder. Remember the OWS ( international anti-capitalists ) mobs in Democrat cities ?
  
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- barber2
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 10:17am
  GRIMM: Agree. Look at the base which the Obama radicals attract : all of the ” out-siders.” All of the people who want to ” change” America. All of the people who are angry or feel marginalized : the young, the poor, the illegals, the unemployed, the criminals, the gays. And who does the Obama crowd target : the ” rich who don’t pay their fair share,” the conservatives, Tea Party ( code for old, white, establishment types ) , the military, the police acting “stupidly,” the Zimmermans with guns protecting their neighborhoods , journalists who do not follow the Lefty propaganda ….. Notice a pattern here, folks ???
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 12:07pm
  Not sure of the veracity, but Madcow seems to need more viewers for some reason…
  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2992736/posts
  
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