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Anthony Ostry
Basic facts
Location:Milwaukee County

Anthony Ostry, a resident of Milwaukee County in Wisconsin, filed a complaint concerning the John Doe investigations related to Scott Walker with the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB) that was never investigated.[1][2]

John Doe investigations

See also: John Doe investigations related to Scott Walker

In February 2014, one of the targets of the second of the John Doe investigations related to Scott Walker, Eric O'Keefe, filed a federal lawsuit stating that the investigation was used as an instrument to shut down conservative speech and, therefore, violated the targets' First Amendment rights.

In the lawsuit, O'Keefe cited a number of cases related to Democratic organizations that either weren't investigated or were dismissed to prove the John Doe investigations were politically biased. In May 2012, Ostry filed a complaint with the Government Accountability Board (GAB) through attorney Michael D. Dean, alleging that the AFL-CIO sent Ostry an express advocacy mail piece. Ostry is not a member of the AFL-CIO. By sending the mailing to non-members, some argue, the labor union violated campaign finance statutes. The complaint was never followed up on by the GAB, and no investigation was conducted.[2]

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Footnotes

  1. Media Trackers, "Wisconsin AFL-CIO Suspected of Breaking Law During Secret Recall Spending Spree," August 27, 2012
  2. 2.0 2.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named EOKcomplaint