Acting Milw, WI Sheriff Richard Schmidt touts degrees from unaccredited and defunct colleges

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8. More on the sheriff election

County executive Chris Abele has just spent $300,000 on behalf of Schmidt's campaign, according to the Journal-Sentinel. The TV ads are starting to run, praising Schmidt all over the place. The newspaper story quotes a deputy sheriff who is also running in this race (with very little in the way of a campaign):

Ostrowski objected strongly to Abele's efforts to sway the voters in favor of Schmidt, calling the county exec's spending "disgusting" and "wrong." "He's trying to manipulate the system," said Ostrowski, who is thought to be running third.

Ostrowski added that Schmidt essentially ran the Sheriff's Office under Clarke, who spent a lot of time on the road and on conservative TV. The deputy said you can't separate Schmidt and the previous sheriff, as Abele is trying to do.

Perhaps, Ostrowski said, Abele is hoping to get a yes-man in the Sheriff's Office. "That's what's concerning," he added.

People died in the jail during the time Clarke and Schmidt were in charge. Don't let Abele buy Schmidt's way into this office.