Another Day, Another Dirty DA

You already know the story of Kenneth Kratz, the sexting DA who is expected to be resigning in the next week or so.

Now meet John P. Henkelmann, the DA from Wood County. Although Henkelmann's offense is no where near as grave as Kratz', it still gives DA's from around the state another black eye:

Records show a Wisconsin prosecutor was caught on video looking at porn in a resort's business room and engaging in what an employee called "lewd" and illegal behavior, but officers downplayed it.

Wood County District Attorney John P. Henkelmann was not charged with wrongdoing stemming from the Nov. 6, 2009, incident at the Osthoff Resort in Elkhart Lake. He declined comment Thursday, saying that he didn't do anything illegal.

A report obtained by The Associated Press says Sheboygan County Sheriff's deputies were called to the resort after an employee reported that a hotel guest had been repeatedly observed viewing porn. Deputies found Henkelmann looking at porn, but let him go.

Resort managers ended up firing an employee for talking about the DA's behavior with a Wisconsin Department of Justice official, e-mails show. Justice officials decided not to get involved after learning the incident didn't involve one of their employees.

The Absentee AG Was Really Absent

Last week, I asked where was Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen during the whole Kenneht Kratz scandal. I labeled him as being absentee.

As it turns out, I was off the mark. He was worse than being absent.

Van Hollen has since criticized the Office of Lawyer Regulation for dropping the ball in investigating and taking action against Kratz last year when the allegations about Kratz' sexting first was made known to the authorities. However, he should have checked his own office's files before leveling blame at anyone:

The Wisconsin Department of Justice closed its investigation into Calumet County District Attorney Ken Kratz's sexually charged text messages to a crime victim without interviewing Kratz, according to records of the investigation made public Friday.

DOJ executive assistant Dean Stensberg said his agency's investigation was "absolutely" thorough. He said agents collected all the evidence they needed to determine that a crime had not been committed.

Sadly, it took this public humiliation to get Van Hollen to start doing his job.

Isn't it time to get someone in that office that doesn't play political games with people's lives?

The Dirty DA And The Absentee AG

Unless you have been living under a rock, you have probably heard about Kenneth Kratz, the Calumet County DA who was busted sexting the victim of a domestic violence case.

This jackass has gone the gamut of trying to minimize his wrong doings to saying he was the victim of a smear campaign to apologizing and saying he was going on medical leave to get help. The only thing he didn't do was take responsibility and resign like everyone and their uncle has been calling for.

In another example of a Democrat cleaning up a mess that the Republicans can't, Governor Jim Doyle announced that he would start the process of removing Kratz from office, once he gets a complaint from a tax payer in Calumet County. Given that his press conference was about 3:30 this afternoon, I would expect that he had about 100 by the time he got back to the office, and that's just in his email inbox.

So all's good, right?

Not yet. There's still one question that has to be answered.

Where the hell was Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen on all of this? He was informed of this almost a full year ago, yet has done nothing about it. He needs to answer for aiding this atrocity to go on as long as it has.