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We don't endorse or dis-endorse candidates here at The Big Con, but we do help out fellow bloggers in need. Josh Marshall has been casting around for the names of further criminals, alleged criminals, and/or miscreants associated with the presidential campaign of Rudolph Giuliani. As a native-born cheesehead, I'm pleased to submit my contribution: Robert Kasten, the (formerly) baby-faced two-term senator from Wisconsin, run out of office in 1992 for his record of drunk-driving arrests.

The author of Spotlighting the U.N.’s Anti-American Record: Nine Speeches (Washington: Heritage Foundation, 1984), Kasten has joined the Giuliani foreign policy team further ornamented by Norman Podhoretz.

Relates Badger State blogger Bill Christofferson, author of a biography of Gaylord Nelson, the great liberal senator and Earth Day founder Kasten knocked off on Reagan's coattails in 1980: "Kasten reportedly celebrated his victory over Nelson so hard that he was barely able to speak an intelligible word - or stand up - when it finally became clear he had won. He went on to distinguish himself as a drunk driver and, after losing to Russ Feingold in 1992, reportedly found work as an arms dealer."

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