Milwaukee, WI— Carpenter, small business owner, and general contractor Brett Hulsey announced he will sue the Greg Borowski, Executive the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel(MJS), the USA TODAY NETWORK and parent company Gannett for $1.5 billion for defamation and libel. The suit was triggered by a MJS story about Brett running for WI governor that had nine lies or misleading statements violating the USA Today Code of Ethics.
Brett, wearing the yellow hazmat suit he used to clean up an 1849 farmhouse, said, “I will clean up shabby yellow tabloid writing and Wisconsin the way I restored that farmhouse at 3507 Milwaukee Street in Madison for a blind woman and family that was living in their car.”
Brett restores older homes for the homeless and disabled as part of the mission of Better Environmental Solutions LLC, an affordable housing, energy and environmental small business he founded that will celebrate 20 years in business this month.
In a bold move to right this wrong, promote honest journalism, and stand up to the Journal Sentinel’s libelous and defamatory reporting, Brett will sue the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editor Greg Borowski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA Today and Gannett, which owns them for their libelous, untrue and malicious story for $1.5 billion.
“There were at least nine lies or factual misrepresentations in that story about me. For instance, the writer and editors didn’t even get the location of my governor announcement press conference right, which was in front of a homeless shelter, where I provide homes, jobs and food to as many people as I can. The story said it was at the Capitol five blocks away,” said Brett who was almost homeless himself. “I’ll be able to help a lot more people with this $1.5 billion to have a home, food, medicine, and a job to support their families.”
Brett has decades of journalistic experience and knows accurate and fair journalism. “One of my first jobs was helping my Mom edit Oklahoma Outdoor News monthly for the Oklahoma Wildlife Federation. We started from a blank page, wrote stories, took pictures, sold ads, pasted it up, had it printed, then addressed and mailed it each month,” Hulsey said.
Brett was a high school photographer, a Middlebury College newspaper writer, taught high school journalists, wrote many reports for the Sierra Club, won a FEMA Distinguished Public Service Award for reports on how wetlands prevent flooding, wrote speech lines for Vice President Gore, “They call them floodplains, because it’s plain that they flood.”
Brett feels that honest and truthful journalism is essential to a healthy democracy. “The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA Today, and all media outlets must be held responsible for the accuracy of their statements. This lawsuit will protect everyone, especially small business owners from the harmful effects of tabloid lies.”
Brett said, “The case is a slam dunk. A third grader could win this case.” Wisconsin Notes to Trial Judges state the three basic elements of a libelous defamatory communication are:
1. the statement is false, which is clear on nine counts;
2. the statement is communicated by speech, by conduct, or in writing to a person other than the person defamed, it was published in the MJS paper to 48,519 people in 2022, not counting online readers;
3. the communication is unprivileged and tends to harm one’s reputation so as to lower the person in the estimation of the community or to deter third persons from associating or dealing with the person. I have heard from people they were concerned about the story and it is hurting me personally by repeating lies.
“I don’t need the money, I have a roof over my head, food, Social Security and Medicare, unless the Washington stupid politicians screw that up too,’ said Brett. “I just want to help those who need help the most and will invest in them as soon as I can.”
Brett will use all the $1.5 billion settlement money to help mothers, infants, sick people, homeless, out of work, PBS, and other vital programs distributed on a per person basis.
Contact Brett Hulsey on his cell at 608-334-4994 or email Bretthulsey1@gmail.com.
You can mail your comments and questions to Brett at 733 Struck St. No 44688, Madison, WI 53744. Labor donated.
