Finger-Pointing Fitzgerald Blames Dems For His Mining Bill Failure

Sen. Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald was on WTMJ-AM radio today blaming the Democrats for killing the mining bill, saying he thought either Sen. Carpenter, Wirch or Coggs would support the bill.

Here's why the bill died: it was written in secret in the Assembly and was so at odds with clean water, Native American treaty rights and Wisconsin tradition and law that Fitzgerald lost a swing vote in his own caucus.

As I said last night, here comes the orchestrated spinning and finger-pointing, and Fitzgerald is leading the way.

Get ready for Walker to come in behind Fitzgerald: Charlie Sykes is paving the way for this rightist blueprint today, segueing from mining to an attack on Tom Barrett.