Scott Fitzgerald, busy with minutiae, delays clean drinking water measures

Public health crises from racism and Covid-19 rightly have our attention, and responsible official holders are all expected to remain focused on the people's pending priorities.

Unless you're the hyper-partisan and institutionally-slothful Wisconsin State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald - 



- who still won't reconvene (electronically is permissible) the Senate and take up scores of pending measures including a set of reforms which can address long-standing rural well water contamination.

Noted and documented on this blog repeatedly, including in this post 17 months ago:

Data show what people in Kewaunee County and the Central Sands region who live near the industrial-scale Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs, already know: 

Their drinking water is contaminated:

WI Central Sands the next Flint? Kewaunee County already soaks up that honor.

Mind you, the cleaner water legislation which Fitzgerald has yet to put to a vote is so modest that even the Robin Vos/GOP-led Wisconsin Assembly passed it in February.

Fitzgerald signaled six weeks ago he'd get the Senate back in session, albeit sometime this year - a weak commitment clearing time for Fitzgerald to keep his campaign for retiring US Cong. Jim Sensenbrenner's House seat front and center.

In recent days, Can't-Be-Bothered Fitzgerald has found the time through his campaign Twitter feed to post birthday greetings to Sensenbrenner and Donald Trump. 

And to celebrate on June 12 the opening of a GOP campaign office in Jefferson County. Yippee!

It was an honor to participate in the opening of the new Republican Party of Jefferson County campaign headquarters yesterday in Watertown along with @RebeccaforReal, @JohnJagler, @Dittrich4the38, @CodyHorlacher and more. Great to see all the grassroots energy!

And to pretend through retweeting on May 27th that he has a role in putting professional sports back into play:

Scott Fitzgerald

@SenFitzgerald

I’m continuing to seek input from groups like Wisconsin’s professional sports teams on how the state can be helpful in their return to play. 

And my personal Fitzgerald Folly: the campaign account retweeting on May 21 a pronunciation guide to "Oconomowoc" for new Brewer ballplayers:

Oconomowoc (O-con-O-mO-walk) n.1. A city in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States. 

2. An incredibly difficult name for these guys to spell.

Here are some other difficult names more familiar in Kewaunee County, for example, which Fitzgerald can't find the time to address:

...nitrate, coliform bacteria, human fecal microbes, bovine fecal microbes...