An endorsement from a controversial police association is causing
trouble for Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett as he pursues the Democratic
nomination for June’s gubernatorial recall election in Wisconsin.
Allegations of domestic violence have been leveled against the Wisconsin Professional Police Association (WPPA) executive director, Jim Palmer, opening Barrett and other Democrats up to charges of hypocrisy for accusing Gov. Scott Walker of waging a “war on women.”
The Washington Free Beacon has obtained a court injunction for a temporary restraining order filed against Palmer by his ex-wife.
“Jim has engaged in aggressive, physical contact with me in the past, and has received anger management for those actions. However, he still cannot control his temper,” she writes in the court filing. Palmer also had a physical altercation with his 14-year-old son, the ex-wife claimed.
Palmer disputed those claims in an email to the WPPA obtained by the Free Beacon.
“Court records show that there was nothing to substantiate any violent or physical aspects to any of this,” Palmer wrote. “Harassment injunctions were issued against me and my ex-wife and they did not limit or restrict our contact with one another. If there were some physical aspects to all of this, that would not have been the
case.”
Read more: http://freebeacon.com/a-brutal-endorsement/
Allegations of domestic violence have been leveled against the Wisconsin Professional Police Association (WPPA) executive director, Jim Palmer, opening Barrett and other Democrats up to charges of hypocrisy for accusing Gov. Scott Walker of waging a “war on women.”
The Washington Free Beacon has obtained a court injunction for a temporary restraining order filed against Palmer by his ex-wife.
“Jim has engaged in aggressive, physical contact with me in the past, and has received anger management for those actions. However, he still cannot control his temper,” she writes in the court filing. Palmer also had a physical altercation with his 14-year-old son, the ex-wife claimed.
Palmer disputed those claims in an email to the WPPA obtained by the Free Beacon.
“Court records show that there was nothing to substantiate any violent or physical aspects to any of this,” Palmer wrote. “Harassment injunctions were issued against me and my ex-wife and they did not limit or restrict our contact with one another. If there were some physical aspects to all of this, that would not have been the
case.”
Read more: http://freebeacon.com/a-brutal-endorsement/
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