I honestly wasn’t going to write anything else about Fred Walser, whom I expect to be pummeled severely in Tuesday’s election. But this information is too much to keep to myself.

The fact that the Mayor’s husband committed the crimes he committed is one thing. It’s even another thing for him to be found guilty and sentenced to a year in jail, only to plead down to a $20K fine and community service. It’s even an amazing thing to discover that the very week he was convicted he audaciously filed to run for the State Senate!

Now, listen to this…he is calling his court-ordered community service “volunteer” work. I kid you not, he’s using the “hard time” of community service in his campaign literature and calling himself a volunteer. Check out an online example here.

He’s not a volunteer! He’s a convict fulfilling a court sentence.

In fact, according to the plea agreement and the court documents, if he doesn’t complete the community service he goes to jail.

Fred’s brazen behavior reminds me of the statement by the ancient prophet Jeremiah about the people of his country having a “prostitute’s forehead” with no ability to blush with shame.

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