The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, October 22, 1997:

Because two former legislators who lost elections had a "right to hold office," their attorney argues, a state business group injured them by running ads criticizing their voting records before last November's elections.

Radio and TV ads run by Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce hurt the "property rights" of ex-Reps. David Plombon (D-Stanley) and Michael Wilder (D-Chippewa Falls) to those offices, according to their lawyer, Paul Gordon.

Gordon said Tuesday the two legal terms he used in his new legal brief—"right to hold office" and "property rights"—were taken from court cases nationally that involved campaign-finance and election-law cases.

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