What's ther Straight Dope about this story about political oppression in Wisconsin?

Briefly, a Democrat, Chisholm, tries to suppress what he sees as support for Walker and uses draconian powers to do so.

What’s the Straight Dope here?

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417155/wisconsins-shame-i-thought-it-was-home-invasion-david-french

Suppressing Republicans isn’t a crime, it’s the patriotic duty of any good American.

What if, god forbid, the people vote one into office?

Then the people have lost their collective mind.

I’m not from Wisconsin, and I’m not familiar with this case. But looking into it, the Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel seems to have a good overview:

It doesn’t sound like a totally crazy prosecutor bent on destroying a governor from an opposite party. National Review is a conservative magazine (it was founded by William F. Buckley, Jr.), and they do seem to think that Scott Walker and Republicans are on the side of angels, so obviously that puts a spin on the story. Looking at other news stories, I can’t seem to find anything that indicates that Chisholm used any draconian powers. Hopefully a Wisconsinite or someone else more familiar with the issue can explain more about what’s happening.

The raids do sounds scary, I don’t think the police need to come with guns and battering rams in the middle of the night to collect evidence for illegal campaign coordination. But that’s not specific to this case, that’s regarding the overall militarization of the police. I saw a good documentary at SXSW called Peace Officer about that issue.

Illegal campaign coordination is on par with mattress tag ripping offing for its level of emergency.

It’s hard to judge based on this one article. I do note the following paragraph seems to be begging the question, somewhat:

It assumes that the ultimate aims of the investigation was to harm Walker’s political career which, I think, is a fact not proven, at least in the article (although that’s certainly the author’s strong opinion). Apparently they did find some minor malfeasance which could either mean that’s all there was to find, or that that some people are better at hiding shenanigans than others. I’d kind of be interested in hearing more about those campaign violations and where the money came from, myself.

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Minor hijack… but THANK YOU for correctly using “begging the question”.

I was prepared to grit my teeth and studiously not nag at you about it. But you’ve restored my faith in Dope-ity. (Or whatever the Dopish subset of humanity should be.)

I have to quibble with that, at least on one level. Mattress tag ripping (by the end-user) is not a crime; as such, there is no urgency to foil any attempts to destroy (or otherwise manipulate the availability of) evidence. This is not the case wrt illegal campaign coordination.