1-03-25 Prosecutor, who suggested staging a provocation in Wisconsin, resigns // Provocación contra los sindicatos? // 对工会的挑衅？

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Vic Ryckaert and Kevin O'Neal
kevin.oneal@indystar.com

Official resigns over email idea to stage assault

Indiana deputy prosecutor's proposal aimed to discredit unions in Wisconsin

Written by Vic Ryckaert and Kevin O'Neal

March 25, 2011

For the second time, an Indiana public official has lost his job because of provocative -- some would say foolish -- comments made about the political brouhaha in Wisconsin.

Carlos F. Lam, a Johnson County deputy prosecutor, resigned Thursday after acknowledging he sent an email last month urging the Wisconsin governor to discredit labor union protests in his state by orchestrating a fake assault on the governor.

Possibly, Lam suggested, the pretend assailant might even use a firearm.

Lam's boss, Prosecutor Bradley D. Cooper, accepted the resignation. He called Lam's Feb. 19 email to Gov. Scott Walker a "foolish suggestion."

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