Dailytakes

Christian Schneider has penned an excellent post on the new Government Accountability Board.

Apparently, they believe a board of political appointees should be the ones serving as the speech police for Wisconsin campaigns.  Yet nothing in the Wisconsin statutes gives them the ability to regulate the timing and content of political speech.  When Legislators passed the law instituting the Board, they thought they were authorizing these unelected bureaucrats to enforce existing laws, not to make new ones up out of thin air.  This would be like going to the doctor for an ear infection and ending up with a vasectomy.

Of course, courts continue to rule that the suppression of issue advocacy during elections is a violation of another obscure constitutional provision, known mostly to scholars as “The First Amendment.”  Then again, why would the GAB start worrying about our founding documents now?

Go read the whole thing.