Sen. Scott Fitzgerald sued for defaming husband of Democratic Senator. “Families off limits” only applies to Republicans?

Getting what he deserves, Sen. Scott Fitzgerald went after a private citizen in his zeal to bash a public servant, a no no in the eyes of the law.

The biggest whiners over media pot shots at family members, conservatives see nothing wrong with breaking that ethical wall, since they’re fighting the enemies of liberty and freedom I guess.

A state senator's husband has filed a defamation lawsuit against Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald. The La Crosse Tribune newspaper reports Sen. Kathleen Vinehout's husband, Douglas Kane, alleges in the lawsuit Fitzgerald made malicious and untrue statements about him in an Aug. 23 column. The lawsuit takes issue with statements that Kane had a "long and sordid" history as an adviser to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and counseled him on tax changes.

The lawsuit contends Kane doesn't have a sordid history and he never counseled Blagojevich or served as his adviser, though he did work as a consultant for him on tax issues.

Fitzgerald, a Juneau Republican, has led GOP attacks accusing Vinehout, an Democrat, of plagiarizing Kane's essays on taxes.

That’s right, crazy conservative Scott Fitzgerald accused the Senator of plagiarizing her own husbands writings:

The state Republican Party claims three essays written over the past
three years by Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, D, lift passages nearly verbatim from
columns written by her husband, Douglas Kane.

You read that right, HER HUSBAND. It actually gets even better…

Kane said he wrote drafts of some of her columns, much like a campaign staff writer would write a candidate's speeches. Some of the language from his works carried over, he said. "If it wasn't so stupid, it would be amusing," he said of the GOP's allegations. "(How can it be) plagiarism if it's donated from one person to another?"

Republicans say the similarities raise questions about Vinehout's credibility. "This is the definition of plagiarism," said John Hogan, executive director of the Committee to Elect Republican Senators. "Does she have any original ideas?"

James Peterson, a Madison-based intellectual properties attorney, said using Kane's work was no different than any politician turning to a speech writer or a staff writer.

You have to wonder just how the conservative brain can come up with this stuff. Is it paranoia, fear of someone getting something for nothing, the peoples government not controlled by private business, an inability to understand the human condition, a distrust of everyone around them...what?