Sometimes it warms my heart to see political corruption in other states.  It sorta reminds me that I don’t live in the ninth circle of hell, just like the fifth or sixth.

It’s Wisconsin, where Michael Eisenga, the wealthy owner of American Lending Solutions, thinks he’s paying too much in child support.  He hasn’t be able to find a judge who will lower it, so Eisnga is going one better.  Emails between Eisenga’s lawyer and Wisconsin state representative Rep. Joel Kleefisch show that Eisenga was clearly writing the law to let himself off the hook for child support in exchange for campaign donations.

Michael Eisenga: For Sale or Lease

The fun part of this story is that Kleefisch is a religious right nut.  He’s just a little bit better than you and he’ll remind you of that every chance he gets.  Letting a guy who has made a fortune in the payday lending business by ripping off poor people buy you to get out of paying child support must be what Jesus would do, right?  Otherwise a fine Christian man like Kleefisch wouldn’t do it, right?

I’m beginning to think that steeples on top of churches are a measuring stick to see if you can stack money that high.

Thanks to Ralph for the heads up.