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Related: About this forumWisconsin: Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has declared war on the state’s open records standard.
http://host.madison.com/news/opinion/editorial/j-b-van-hollen-attacks-public-s-right-to-know/article_a0816caa-a9db-572b-a138-d0e19d1d528e.html#_=_J.B. Van Hollen attacks public's right to know
Those premises are stated in the Wisconsin Constitution, which declares that governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. It is impossible for the governed to give their consent if they cannot get answers to basic questions about what legislators are doing in their official capacity.
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But Van Hollen is now arguing that state Sen. Leah Vukmir, R-Wauwatosa, need not follow the rules because she is immune when the Legislature is in session from lawsuits seeking to compel a response to an open records request. Since the Legislature rarely if ever goes out of session, this new standard would mean that legislators would rarely if ever have to respect the states open records law.
"I think the attorney general's position is a radical misinterpretation of that (provisions that are supposed to outline a narrow measure of legislative immunity), Susan Crawford, a Madison attorney who served as an assistant attorney general and as chief counsel to former Gov. Jim Doyle, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "I've never heard a legislator asserting they're above the law, which is what (Vukmirs) doing. You have to wonder what she's trying to hide."
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)They can declare that black is white, every attorney and citizen in the state can agree that it is wrong, and there is nothing anybody can do about it.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)...race to the bottom, like the pollutions in Florida.
Pollutions = Politicians
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)We installed a turbocharger. Yay us.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)All this is over Vukmir's unholy allegiance to ALEC.
For fucks sake, it's Wisconsin, there is no such thing state security for Wisconsin. What...are you protecting the secret plans in case Minnesota invades? Do we have plans for our own fighter plane?
I have no idea what sort of promise Ms. Vukmir made at some ALEC convention. I do know she swore an oath of office when she was sworn in. I do know AG Van Hollen swore to protect the constitution of Wisconsin. He is overstepping his office.