Mining/Forest Land 'Hearing' Issue Moved To Purple WI Blog Site

I posted a version of what will run on this blog yesterday and today - -

Like other hearings and pro-company legislative processes favors provided by Walker and his legislative allies on iron-mining bills since 2012, the Wednesday 'hearing' is just another sham because the skids have been greased and the outcome is not in doubt:

[Co-sponsor State Sen. Tom Tiffany] plans on moving the bill quickly through the Senate. There are public hearings scheduled for Wednesday and a committee vote on Thursday. Tiffany hopes to have a floor vote in the Senate by the end of September. 

The committee is operating as a subsidiary of the mining company, as is the entire GOP legislative membership in both houses, save for one GOP State Senator - - farmer, conservationist and party pariah Dale Schultz, (R-Richland Center).

- - over at Purple Wisconsin, too:

People and media will get a chance tomorrow at 11 a.m. in room 300 State Capitol SE to see how far away from public service and meaningful civic engagement the GOP-run Wisconsin Legislature has slunk.

That's when a Senate committee stacked with Republican members in lock-step with the proposed GTAC open-pit iron ore mine in the Bad River watershed up north will hold a 'hearing' on a bill being rushed through the Legislature to allow GTAC to close 4,000 acres near the proposed mine site to public recreational uses currently guaranteed.

You want to hunt, fish or walk there? Take a hike somewhere else, even though the forest owners have been getting tax breaks in exchange for the public's guaranteed access.