Stealth candidate may fit right in

This Journal Sentine lstory about a former Menomonee Falls trustee who filed a committee to to run for Assembly, but asked the State Elections Board if it could be kept secret, is interesting on a couple of counts.

One is the secrecy question, of course. Elections Board chief Kevin Kennedy says Chris Slinker asked to file anonymously, but the appropriately named Slinker denies it. Why on earth would Kennedy make up something like that?

Another is that Slinker left his state job working for State Sen. Alberta Darling (R-Whitefish Bay) last year after he was accused -- but never convicted -- of campaigning for local officials on state time. Maybe Rep. Scott Jensen (R-Not Convicted Yet) could find him one of those jobs to run Republican campaigns on someone else's payroll, like he did for Rep. Scott Suder. (Earlier post.)

Slinker says he's "exploring" a challenge to GOP Rep.Susanne Jeskewitz (R-Menomonee Falls), who he says is not conservative enough.

UPDATE:In a followup story, Kennedy says Slinker talked to an Elections Board staffer and "questioned whether it would be public" and whether there would be "another way to do it that is not" public. Those questions are not unusual from prospective candidates, Kennedy said. Whatever that means.