kratz apologized. >> my behavior was inappropriate.assed and ashamed. >> reporter: but he refuses to resign. monday, a woman kratz met on a dating website also came forward, saying he asked her out on a date to view an autopsy. something his attorney calls completely bogus. on "gma" tuesday, wisconsin governor, jim doyle, called for kratz's resignation. >> the governor does have the power for removal. this is a terrible violation of trust. >> reporter: at the time, the attorney general's office said no crime was committed and gave the case to the office of lawyer regulation that oversees attorney conduct. that office had no comment. but abc news did obtain a copy of a letter its investigator set to van groll. although district attorney kratz's communication with you was inappropriate, it did not appear to involve possible professional misconduct. >> that is exactly the body that should have investigated this case. i'm very dismayed to see that they did not. >> reporter: a hearing date recording kratz's removal hasn't been set yet. ken

kratz and he would revoke his support and take it off the table. that other women have suffered because of that. but, also, the reason i'm speaking now i've received that clemency so no longer am i intimidated or afraid and that's why i'm speaking out today. >> mr. kratz's attorney has said he is going to fight to keep his client in office because other d.a.s have far worse things and kept their jobs. what do you say to that, maria? >> i think it's disgusting. i think that people who support this man should truly consider, take a step back and think, would someone in this position, should they have put me in a position to have to support his actions, which are unethical? i think they need to realize ken kratz is a fallen crow and he is not worth anything nor is he a good career move to support. i would strongly, to his supporters, reconsider and look at the direction of the career path you're choosing with -- by supporting this man. >> and we should say that ken kratz has admitted to one of the allegations and accepted all the blame but no comment

they said kratz hadn't actually committed a crime.inst him. in this e-mail, kratz told the department, he was just, complimenting her. they urged him to remove himself from the case, which he did. and the scandal remained quiet until last week, when the associated press revealed the text messages. still, kratz refuses to resign. and has taken a medical leave, seeking psychotherapy. advocates for crime victims are outraged. >> the prosecutor is supposed to do justice to protect her from that kind of behavior. and he's doing the same thing. it's craziness. >> reporter: yesterday, the governor said he will now try to remove the prosecutor. but kratz's attorney says his client isn't going anywhere. for "good morning america," andrea canning, abc news. >>> and governor jim doyle joins us now. governor, i have to say, when we first heard about this story and talked about it in our staff meetings, everyone's reaction was exactly the same. how can this guy still be on the job? >> well, mine was exactly the same, as well. i first heard when th

kratz apologized. >> my behavior was inappropriate. i'm embarrassed and ashamed. >> reporter: he's taken medical leave to get psychiatric help but refuses to step down, despite the governor's call for his resignation. >> this is just a terrible violation of trust. >> reporter: a letter sent to 7ny van grol by the state panel that oversees attorney conduct called kratz's communications inappropriate but said they did not appear to involve possible professional misconduct. proceedings are under way to formally remove him from office. barbara pinto, abc news, chicago. >>> gay couples in florida are now one step closer to being able to adopt children. a state appeals court found a law banning such adoptions unconstitutional. now the florida governor says the state will stop enforcing the adoption law immediately. but the governor admits the state's supreme court must remove the law from the books. >>> the head of an iowa egg farm linked to a major salmonella outbreak has now apologized to those who got sick. that was certainly not enough t

kratz. >> reporter: while kratz's resignation is not official, according to his attorney it will certainly come by october 8th. the date of the next hearing in the removal process. t.j. winick, abc news, new york. >>> while some areas have disappointing pumpkin crops this year due to summer heat, that is not the situation out west. >> with halloween a month away, 'tis the season of the gargantuan gourds. some of the biggest pumpkins around were on display at a festival in suburban denver. >> a south dakota man took home top honors for a giant pumpkin that weighed over 1,500 pounds. the runner-up was a 1,200-pounder. these growers say on the peak of growing season these things can grow anywhere from 30 to 40 pounds. i'd love to see a time lapse of these things as they grow. >> more news after this. hó so whiten your teeth. no coffee. [ female announcer ] crest 3d white toothpaste removes up to 80% of surface stains in just two weeks. hi. [ female announcer ] for a noticeably whiter smile. crest 3d white toothpaste. or does frizz make you start all over? get ready for a revolution. the new p

she claims to have met her online where -- kenneth kratz apologized. >> my behavior was inappropriate. i am ashamed. >> he has taken medical leave to get psychiatric help, but refuses to step down. >> this is a terrible violation of trust. >> a letter sent to one woman called his communications inappropriate, but they did not appear to involve professional misconduct. proceedings are under way to remove him from office. >>> just under 24 hours from now a woman will be put to death by lethal injection. teresa lewis become the first woman in almost a century to be put to death. the governor and supreme court have refused to block the execution. >>> coming up, why is budweiser giving away free beer? we will tell you where. >> the battle to be the maryland governor is on. martin o'malley feels good about his rematch with bob ehrlich. >> the mother of a cyclist killed is calling for changing maryland state law. four years ago, bob ehrlich got fired as governor of maryland. for good reason. first, he protected tax loopholes for giant cable cable companies. then, he let utilities jack up our

out of wisconsin who just can't seem to keep his work and personal life separate kalama county's da kratz has fallen under fire recently for trying to seduce a woman involved in one of his court cases cracked was attempting to spark an affair with the victim of one of the domestic abuse cases that he was working on what an ex-boyfriend tried to choke twenty six year old stephanie van girl now as the case was under way girl says that she was getting up to thirty eight text messages saying things like are you the kind of girl who likes secret contact with an older married elected da or i would not expect you to be the other woman i would want you to be so hot and treat me so well that you would be the woman pretty disgusting right this is the same guy who is prosecuting her abusive ex boyfriend and he's pulling the exact same slimy antics. now the female says that she only responded to the messages because she felt pressure and worried that if she didn't answer he was going to drop the charges against the ex word got out crass did not deny sending the text messages but asked if it be kept u

i'm very dismayed to see that they did not. >> reporter: he says only kratz and his victim were toldno wrongdoing was found, hence the governor never hearing about it until media reports came out. >> because it's presumed that if you find somebody did not commit wrongdoing, an attorney, that you don't want to unnecessarily blast them in the public. >> reporter: once the complaint is in, then a hearing will be set giving kratz a chance to defend himself. in madison, abc news. >>> a man on trial in kentucky claims he murdered his wife because he had consumed an excessive amount of caffeine. willie smith is accused of killing his wife last year. his attorney says caffeine from soda, energy drinks and diet pills left smith sleep deprived and mentally unstable. the attorney also says smith's false confession happened when he was unstable. prosecutors, on the other hand, claim he killed his wife after an argument. >>> things are back to normal at ft. bliss, texas, after a gunman there was fatally shot. the huge army base was never locked down during the incident. the gunman wounded two peo

ken kratz, starting the process of having him removed. >> just beyond -- it's mindboggling. don't think anybody could even -- it's just unimaginable. exactly what happened is obviously something that we should -- we will look into very carefully. >> ken kratz admitted he sent 30 text messages in three days last year to a woman while he was prosecuting her ex-boyfriend in an abuse case. he apologized last week and said he would get therapy. he's now on medical leave. >>> we've joked about her past comments on witchcraft, but christine o'donnell is now facing very serious allegations. an ethics group filed complaints she used campaign money to pay her rent, even to go bowling. but the republican senate candidate in delaware is now defending herself. >> i am confident that we have been ethical. we have not -- i personally have not misused campaign funds. we have our sec lawyer, a great attorney answering those charges if it ever goes anywhere. >> kelly o'donnell is in washington now. kelly, these charges stem here from a run against her opponent. what happened here? when she wa

kratz. were you surprised other women are saying they went through the same thing you did?, even when this happened to me in 2008, there's no way that i could be the only woman in this position. especially with ken kratz, a man with that much power. >> you dealt with him over a previous drug case. you needed his help getting clemency. at first, you say that things were professional. when did they start to take an inappropriate turn? >> they started to take an inappropriate turn soon after i met in his office to say, you know, thank you for your support. do you have any future advice for a soon-to-be >>> 89 for the high tomorrow, 92 friday. today, a chance of a late day thunderstorm. we'll have a cold front saturday and we'll have a chance of rains. temperatures dropping sunday and >>> up next, a new twist in the already twisted mel gibson saga. could newly releelsed e-mails protect the movie star from legal charges? you'll see what they say ahead here on "the early show" here on cbs. ♪ [ female announcer ] we've got stains, down to a science. new wisk, with our breakthrough

for a while kratz called the whole controversy a smear campaign.ying he'll go to therapy. but he's not going to step down. >> my behavior was inappropriate. i'm embarrassed and ashamed for the choices that i made and the fault was mine alone. this behavior showed a lack of respect, not only for my position but for the young woman that was involved. >> yeah. you think so? he's just the latest guy to be added to our scandal list. remember john ensign sending this. how wonderful it is, scared but excited. that's pretty innocent compared to the text that tiger woods alleged mistresses say they got. i want to treat you rough and it gets x-rated from there. or how about the former mayor who talked sex and marriage with his chief of staff. i've been dreaming all day having you all to myself. whatever happened to fidelity, courtship, moral compass? time to give the thumbs a rest, boys. here's what we're working on in the next hour beginning with stephanie elam. >> well, we're talking about a sensitive subject for people, black people make less, save less a

ken kratz fired and joins me live from madison.said he refuses to resign so what's it going to take on your behalf to handle this? >> there is a process in wisconsin by which the governor can remove a district attorney for misconduct or malfeasance. step one is a verified complaint of a taxpayer and i know that we will have that today. step two is i appoint a commissioner to look into those allegations and to give the district attorney a chance to tell his side of the story. and step three is i make a decision on whether the conduct warrants his removal from office. i'm a former district attorney myself. i'm the three-term attorney general of wisconsin. i have spent a lot of my career working with domestic violence victims and so obviously what's happened here is extremely shocking and troubling to me. i want to make sure that any woman, any victim of a crime particularly a domestic violence or sexual assault or child abuse can come into a police department or a prosecutor's office in wisconsin and be treated with the respect and d

ken kratz set to resign by october 8th. the office of lawyer regulation also plans to reopen its investigation against him. the agency closed their case in march without disciplining the lawyer saying the text messages he sent were inappropriate but not professional misconduct. >>> he's broken his silence and now church members and friends are weighing in on bishop -- eddie long's response to sexual allegations. >> it will be tried in the court of justice and dealt with in the court of justice. i feel like david. against goliath. but - >> the bishop told his congregation he plans to fight the accusations he coerced four young men into having sex but long wouldn't say much more and never denied the accusations. >> he's going to have to prove to his congregants that this is totally a made-up story because this could taint his career and ministry and spiritual kingdom. >> his accusers who were teens but above the legal age of consent said he pushed sex on them, took them on trips and showered them with expensive gifts. >>> pol

wrister kratz just trying to re-introduce feudalism that what's happening in secada go you know in other cities around the country we see a move toward urban farming is there any much of this going on in chicago in chicago i'm sad to say that there's a very small movement in new york. you know where eight hundred. farms you know. your lots are being planted and we're not there is no seniors march around syria which is why i'm trying to take on this crusade well i'd say one positive thing about the collapse of the american empire is that the u.s. dollar after it does finally collapse the u.s. will be competitive and exporting cotton again so at least americans will find jobs as cotton pickers. are you is this a movie think of course chicago is a hub for agricultural products traditionally in america it's where all the grains have come in from the midwest do you see any movement and people now thinking you know maybe going back to agricultural in. arment and the antebellum south perhaps well i'm not really concerned with the commercial as much as you know with the collapse as you say if th

geithner simply refuses to accept the fact that the economy needs to purge itself of the cliff to kratz what exactly and according to this article now forty five million people in america or more the one inside. evan was in poverty last year that's almost fifteen percent of the population so. you know the example of iceland is that immediately these guys the country stood up forced their government out then said the entire banking system is fraud and we've talked about that for the us example it's one hundred percent fraud you have to say let's shut the entire banking system down because it's all fraud there's no fixing it it's fraud and now they're prosecuting there is no exemption you're the prime minister you're going to jail if you help these guys get away with destroying our banking system you're going to jail so the same with bush the same with hank paulson all the people that aided and abetted the criminals in america timothy geithner and larry summers all of these people should be potentially facing their own investigations oh absolutely summers and geithner certainly they were

we know better than the bure ra kratz in washington, d.c.hat will benefit our stew dense. >> the own web site describes race to the top as an effort to quote dramatically reshape america's educational system. >> our students have to be lifelong learners and we have to instill a lifelong of learning. >> in march tennessee and dell wear were announced the phase one winners of race to the top. both states were awarded a combined $600 million. phase 2 will go into effect later this year with president obama requesting an additional 1.3 billion with the program in 20011. >> my view is fundamentally wrong because the department of education doing something it has never done before which is tell all 50 states to change their laws in order to be eligible for a $5 billion prize. >> we will take a look at how no child left behind has school districts across the country scrambling to raise kid's test scores. is that a good thing in more on fox news reporting coming up. ♪ [ male announcer ] ever have morning pain slow you down? introducing bayer am, an

he allegedly, ken kratz is offering a sincere apology for sending inappropriate text messages for a woman was the victim of a crime in the middle of this case being prosecuted. so richard, he has been asked to resign, step down. he says no. his apology is enough. where does this case go from here? >> it's unbelievable, fred. this guy gets caught with a few texts to this woman. she discloses to everyone. they don't fire him, keeps him on the job. >> she went to the police. >> they produced it and said, you're insane. these are horrible texts, what are you doing, but they don't fire him. then what happens is a tidal wave of texts show up. now the guy is gone, he's not in practice right now of the state bar association is looking at him for grievance charges. this guy obviously needed a vacation. he's out of control. this is absolutely outrageous. >> and he's going to get one. fredricka. >> yeah. >> what's going to happen is monday morning at 11:00 there's a removal hearing. this guy is the prize. the booby prize. he's got to go. the bar association, as richard said harks got to get into the

now, there's a hearing today about the effort to remove wisconsin district attorney ken kratz from hisnder fire for sending racy text messages to five women. house majority leader steny hoyer not laughing about stephen colbert's testimony on friday. he called it an embarrassment and not appropriate. >>> tax cuts on hold, lawmakers will not vote to extend the bush era tax cuts until after the midterm elections. in an nbc news exclusive this morning, president obama insisted that those tax cuts be extended for everyone but the wealthiest americans. >> what we need is tax cuts for the middle class who are struggling and if they get a tax cut, they're likely to spend it, which means that a small business is potentially going to get a customer and we're going to see job growth. so we can't spend $700 billion on a tax cut that is not going to spur job growth. >> republicans are demanding democrats schedule a vote to extend tax cuts before lawmakers go on recess next week. democrats accuse republicans of tying things up in the senate. >>> five weeks until the midterms, by the way, and preside

according to reports out of wisconsin district attorney ken kratz will step down from his position beforeend of next week. he had placed himself on medical leave, and this thing got so much publicity that the governor of wisconsin started looking into how to possibly remove him. he placed himself on medical leave while the allegations surfaced. now at least three women are accusing him of sending them sexually explicit text messages, sexting them while he was the shall da of record in their cases. a shocker in san francisco. the editorial board of the san francisco chronicle failing to endorse either of the candidates running for senate. democratic incumbent barbara boxer locked in a tight race with carly fiorina. the board slamming the 18-year incumbent saying her record is more notable for partisan attacks than legislative achievements. the paper says it cannot support carly fiorina on the issues. what are californians to do. well it's been the final resting place of 60 >> reporter: one of the thins that was stolen was called the data plate, megyn, that is for all intents and purposes,

steve kratz from the fox news affiliate has more. >> innocent looking immigrant family. next to a quote from the sheriff. this is our most serious public safety issue. and a national security threat to america. the billboard makes it look like the sheriff wants to go after these people, like they're dangerous criminals. >> i have lived in the county since 1979. and like many, i think, i'm a little worried about the tenor of the comments that our sheriff has made. >> the honorary counsel believes that the family in the picture is legally in the u.s. and the photo taken at a parade in l.a. the sheriff says the billboard is misleading. >> i respect people with a different opinion and there is a way to go about it. this is blatantly false. >> sheriff says the billboard is offensive. the artist answers -- >> i could be offended or he could or whatever and have a good conversation. that should go on and i think it should go on all over the state. >> dialogue seems unlikely. in our phone interview, the sheriff called the artist and their billboard "embarrassing, inappropriate a

the democrat kratz had four years to change the course of america and all they succeeded in doing is over the edge of a cliff. they can blame it on whoever they want. they controlled congress the past four years. america is not willing to give them another four. eric writes you always judge by the company you keep. ron in minnesota says the people around the president are the filters that decide who the president sees, what the president sees, and when it is seen and for how long it is seen. if that doesn't explain the importance of these people, i don't know what does. beth writes they can make or break a president see, just ask jimmy carter. that bunch of idiots cost him a second term. annie in atlanta writes the president's numbers are sinking in part because liberals like me are offended by people like rahm emanuel disparaging the president's base. and summers and geithner that may have had a hand in enriching their wall street buddies at our expense. the people surrounding the president have to be in touch with the mood of the country. that means us. us poor slobs who are obviou