Lindsay Carlson, who currently works as an attorney with the Bowman and Brooke law firm in Los Angeles, has known Minnesota Attorney General candidate Doug Wardlow for 25 years.
She says it was in 2004 when Wardlow was working on a conservative blog. That blog — The Rostra: Conservative Commentary and Political Philosophy — is still online (therostra.blogspot.com).
Clerks are warned the moment they start the job they are not to engage in partisan or political discourse. Wardlow’s blog was anonymous; the writer called himself “Marius.”
View the complete October 25 article by Hannah Jones on the CityPages website here.
If you don’t have time to read the full article, here are some of the content CityPages found:
- There was the post in June of 2004, in which he dismissed pro-choice arguments that women shouldn’t be “saddled unequally vis-a-vis men with the risks involved with sexual intercourse” and forced to bring an unwanted pregnancy to term.
- He said “limiting the amount of money an individual may spend” on a political campaign would be like “limiting the speeches of those born eloquent.
- Later, he said “activist courts” are cudgels with which “liberal social values” are forced on society. He cited cases on same-sex marriage, gay sex, and Roe v. Wade as examples.