SEMPER FIDELIS -- OMEGBU AMUSES

SEMPER FIDELIS

Omegbu Always Amuses

By Michael Horne

As I posted last Friday, Fidelis L. Omegbu, an attempted candidate for Milwaukee County Executive in 2002, filed suit in U. S. District Court last September asking for damages since he was not allowed on the ballot. He is asking for $20 million in damages from the taxpayers in his suit, a copy of which was sent to me by a kind reader.

I thought I would share some of Omegbu’s complaints with you so that you might make up your own mind as to the merits of his case, and to the character of a man who could have been our county executive.

Omegbu begins by filing his case against defendants “Milwaukee County District Attorney Mr. E. McCain,” by which he presumably means E. Michael McCann. He also sues the “Suprintendant” of the Milwaukee County House of Correction, and the Milwaukee County “Sheriff’s” David Clarke.

Aah, but these are merely simple errors of the dotted “i” and crossed “t” variety, and are hardly representative of the meat of Omegbu’s complaint, which goes on for more than 200 counts.

“Plaintiff was subjected to emotional injury, loss of liberty and freedom and deprivation of his personal property, including his noble position in politics.” [Emphasis added.]

I’m not certain which are the noble positions in Milwaukee politics; perhaps Omegbu was a member of the Milwaukee County House of Lords.

Omegbu explains for us why he “did not appear or challenge the disqualification [of his forged nomination papers] because of the defamatory issues in the press and media.”

We also learn that “plaintiff had a prospective contract if elected as the Executive to manage the Milwaukee County for defendants paying approximately $132,000 per year.”

Of course, this prospective contract was ruined when his forged nomination papers were rejected.

According to count 120 of the complaint, “the actions of the Sheriff Department in causing these numerous incidents of eviction unlawfully, making plaintiff unfit for housing.” You can figure that one out for yourself.

Yet worse fates than unfitness for housing befell our Omegbu (who now lives in a hotel, he says). According to count 124, on April 6, 2002, plaintiff was taken to St. Michael’s Hospital but was arrested by the “Milwaukee Policy” while in coma for battery charges.” You better watch out when the Milwaukee Policy is after you!

By count 194, we learn “other politicians similarly situated were not prosecuted like Gary George and the rest mentioned in this complaint were prosecuted and the campaign manager Mr. Dave Begel was not prosecuted because he is white man.”

Finally, in count 206, Omegbu reminds us he was sentenced to “only one count of election fraud.”