Publicity stunt doesn't quite come off

Did he or didn't he?

WisPolitics reports that AG candidate Paul Bucher, in a political publicity stunt, "hand-delivered a letter to incumbent AG Peg Lautenschlager's office detailing his concerns about a methamphetamine "epidemic" in the state. "So today I am hand delivering to you your own numbers which show that the number of methamphetamine cases for 2005 are IN EXCESS OF 700," reads the letter.

The AG's office has a slightly different version of events:

According to our staff of the Office of the Attorney General, you appeared this morning at our Capitol office, toting an easel, accompanied by a photographer, and apparently intending to document your delivery of a letter to the Attorney General. Unfortunately, you did not alert anyone to your plans, and a Capitol Police officer directed your entourage to conduct its assembly elsewhere on the Capitol grounds."

The exchange is over the number of meth cases in the state, which has not quite electrified the electorate.