Kathy Nickolaus - the County Clerk who "found" the ballots

by: Grebner

Fri Apr 08, 2011 at 05:25:40 AM EDT

PPC has repeatedly crossed paths with Ms. Nickolaus, and we can offer a distinctive perspective on recent events in Wisconsin:  she would have been willing to steal the election if she could have, but I don't think she got the chance.

It's important to understand first that Nickolaus was at the very center of a conspiracty to embezzle millions of dollars of public money, which was secretly used to create voter lists for the Wisconsin Republican Party.  (Unfortunately, that operation was matched by an exact mirror-image, which was operating on behalf of the Democrats.)  By the time it was all over, both the Speaker of the Assembly (Republican) and the Majority Leader of the State Senate (Democrat) were convicted and sent to prison.  Nickolaus was granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for her testimony, but there isn't the slightest doubt that she was involved in huge diversions of public funds.

Dismissed from her job running the political operation for the now disgraced Speaker, she returned to her base in Waukesha where she was elected County Clerk.  There, she has acquired a reputation for ruthless partisanship, indifference to propriety, and inability to follow instructions.

If the tallies in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race were fabricated, it was done by somebody with a great deal of organizational and arithmetic ability.  In other words - not by Kathy Nickolaus.  It's conceivable there is some evil genius lurking in a shadow, pulling strings, and keeping her from getting caught.  But if Nickolaus wasn't somebody's puppet, I think she screwed everything up by herself.  

My funniest encounter with her involved PPC's collection of data from her office.  We needed to photograph ten or twenty thousand pages of election records, at Waukesha, and because she knew we were Democrats, she set to work creating barriers.  She finally seized upon the bizarre claim that altough we had every right to LOOK at the records, we had no right to use "her" electricty in copying them.  We got her to place that statement in writing, and then simply rigged up a marine battery - like an auto battery, but operating at 6 volts.  It provided enough power to run our camera and lights all day, and could be recharged overnight.

She was so angry at being outsmarted that she simply left the office while we worked.

She's a criminal, a creep, and an idiot.  It's certainly a good idea to have an thorough investigation of exactly what went on.  And this time, she ought to be held responsible for every violation of state law she committed.  But my opinion is she's too dumb to have organized the fabrication that would have been necessary.