"That's not democracy."But evading the Open Records law, signing confidentiality pledges, legislating in the shadows and shutting up about it until federal judges forced out the records - - that's what democracy and the venerable senate chamber Fitzgerald runs for the taxpayers are about?
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Friday, February 10, 2012
Republicans, Legislating Secretly, Trip Over Scott Fitzgerald's Words
Did any Wisconsin GOP legislator who dutifully followed orders and trooped over to their taxpayer-paid lawyers' offices last year to secretly look at redistricting maps drawn up by legislative staffers working out-of-sight on state time in the lawyers' offices remember the pious baloney that Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald served up when Democratic Senators left the state to block a vote on Scott Walker's anti-collective bargaining bill:
Here I thought the words they tripped on were going to be "Action is character" or something profound like that. Different Scott Fitzgerald I guess.
ReplyDelete"Action is character" also applies here.
ReplyDeleteTheir actions are deceteful and so is their character.
-HH
Not to mention Fitz's "That's not democracy." statement as applied to his flouting of open meetings law just a few weeks later as he rammed the anti-collective bargaining legislation down our collective throats.
ReplyDeleteWhat's wrong with these people? Have they all had their hypocrisy/irony/bullshit detectors disconnected?