An Oshkosh Assemblyman apologized to a colleague Monday for comments he made on the floor of the Assembly last week immediately following a vote on a contentious budget repair bill.<\/p>\n
Litjens said she accepted the apology, but has asked the Assembly leadership to discipline Hintz.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Milwaukee talk show host and blogger Charlie Sykes broke the story – and wonders, accurately I think, if it would have ever been heard if not for alt-media attention.<\/p>\n
Obvious exit question: would Hintz have apologized or even acknoledged the comment if I had not broken the story on my show\/blog this morning?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Oh, what do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last Friday, Gordon “Gordy Walnuts” Hintz went all verbally Tony Soprano on his Wisconsin Assembly colleague, Republican Michelle Litjens, bellowing “You are f**cking dead” after the Assembly voted to pass Governor Walker’s Budget Repair bill. Hintz – who has other issues going on – has apparently offered an apology: An Oshkosh Assemblyman apologized to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18478,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18475\/revisions\/18478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}