Top Realtor attended redistricting meeting after all (Some truth out)

[hue]

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/140734243.html

Madison -- It turns out the head of the Wisconsin Realtors Association attended a meeting on redistricting last year after all.

Jim Troupis, an attorney hired by the Legislature to help draw new election maps, said in a deposition last week that the Realtors and other groups attended a meeting in January 2011 to talk about the redistricting process. But Joe Murray, a lobbyist with the Realtors, later said members of his group had been invited to the meeting but did not attend it.

On Tuesday, Murray said that he had been mistaken and that in fact Mike Theo of the Realtors association had gone to the meeting. Theo has long been with the group and was named president of it in October.

Troupis said he also believed representatives of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce and a bankers' group were there. WMC and the Wisconsin Bankers Association have not responded to questions about the meeting.

Andrew Welhouse, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau), said he did not know why the groups were briefed on the redistricting process. Fitzgerald and other leaders were highly secretive about the maps and later required nearly all Republican lawmakers to sign confidentiality agreements.

[charmay]

1. More hypocrisy and lies from the republicans.