According to a bombshell new report from Wisconsin Right Now, Governor Evers' parole commission has been freeing on average more than two dangerous criminals per week in the first five months of 2022. Even as Evers was publicly intervening in the particularly controversial parole of Douglas Balsewicz in May, he was silent as parole commission chairman John Tate released other convicted criminals. As Wisconsin Right Now reports:
In fact, the 2022 list shows, some of the killers and rapists were freed AFTER Evers, acting under great pressure from a victim’s family and the media, belatedly intervened to stop the release of wife killer Douglas Balsewicz on May 13, 2022, pressuring his Parole Commission Chairman John Tate to resign, which Tate did June 10. Yet the governor stayed silent as the other killers and rapists walked out the prison door, even as he was publicly posturing over Balsewicz around the same time.
We sued to get the 2022 names, with the help of the Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty. Last week, after a judge appointed by Evers ruled the Parole Commission had “unjustifiably” refused to release them for months, the list suddenly arrived.
The killers and rapists freed in 2022 included a stranger who grabbed a UW-Eau Claire college student off the street and raped her; a man who hacked a gas station clerk to death with a hatchet and blamed fictional black suspects; a man who swung a toddler wildly by his ankle, smashing the boy’s head like an “eggshell”; a man who plowed a car into a crowd, wounding 30 people; a man involved in the plastic bag murder of a well-known diner owner; a serial rapist who crawled through home windows to terrorize women in Beloit, and a stalker who executed a professor in the parking lot of a Country Kitchen restaurant. And that’s just for starters.
Click here to read the rest of the eye-opening report from Wisconsin Right Now.
"The Dan O'Donnell Show" covered the story extensively Tuesday and got reaction from both Senator Ron Johnson and Attorney General candidate Eric Toney. Click on the player below to hear what they had to say.