re: #549 jaunte

Another interesting comment from that thread, from ‘bigcheese80’

Lawmakers’ father picked to head Wis. state patrol

MADISON, Wis. —
Steve Fitzgerald, the father of the two most powerful Republican state lawmakers in Wisconsin, will lead the Wisconsin State Patrol, Gov. Scott Walker’s administration announced Tuesday.

Fitzgerald said the fact that his sons are Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, didn’t affect his appointment or how he will approach the job leading the 640-member patrol.

“I have my own focus and my own agenda and they have theirs,” Fitzgerald said in an interview, noting that no questions were raised over the past eight years when he served as U.S. marshal for western Wisconsin while his sons were in politics…