Jessica McBride asks:

WHERE ARE THE APOLOGIES TO MARK GREEN?

Joe Wineke, Bill Christofferson, and Jim Doyle, you should be first in line.

Wispolitics:

 Mark Green did not violate federal law when he transferred money from his congressional account to his gubernatorial fund for his 2006 bid, according to an FEC ruling. The decision was in response to a complaint the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign filed during the campaign, arguing Green's transfer of some $468,000 violated federal law because the transfer was not permissible under state statutes.

 But the FEC rejected that argument in its ruling, handed down April 30. It found the transfer was allowable under federal law and stated that a violation of state law did not equate a federal violation as well...

Should I be first, second or third in line? How about nowhere near the line? I never, ever, not even once suggested that Mark Green was breaking federal law. Mike McCabe of Wisconsin Democracy Campaign filed the FEC complaint; no one has ever mistaken me for him.

 I did say repeatedly, and will say again, that he was breaking state law by transferring hundreds of thousands of dollars from special interests that could not legally be contributed to the governor's race.

Federal law does say that you can't use state campaign funds to run for federal office, but that is a horse of a different feather, as one imaginative Wisconisn leggie used to say.

So, Ms. McBride, Helen Hunt is in charge of the Apology Department. If Mark Green wants an apology, he'll have to go to Helen Hunt for it.