This keeps getting better and better.
First the assembly tried to vote early to pass this law when Gordan Hintz went ballistic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9xi3Of786MThen they sneak it through the assembly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl-ouE5ScH0&feature=relatedThen they violate the open records law...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t_bXTSlRNc.State Rep. Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, who was the only Democratic member present at the conference committee meeting, said the ruling "affirms that people have a right to be notified of meetings, to be present, in order to be able to participate in our democracy."
Barca was given just minutes to read a 138-page amended version of the bill before the Republican-controlled committee passed it over his objections.
Originally Kathleen Falk, the Dane County Executive asked Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen to intervene. When he didn't she did file a complaint, now scheduled for a later hearing that a quorum of 3/5 was needed because the collective bargaining issue is a financial in nature.
Then Madison DA Ozanne filed a suit on the open records issue which caused the stay where judge Sumi Ruled "This was something that would and did catch the public unaware," Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi, saying the joint Assembly-Senate conference committee's action March 9 amounted to a "closed session of a body ... propelling legislation forward."
Sumi's ruling bars Secretary of State Doug La Follette from publishing the law, the last step before it can take effect. La Follette had planned to publish the law on March 25, which would cause it to take effect the following day.
Now Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen's Department of Justice is attempting to appeal Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi's order blocking implementation of Governor's Scott Walker's budget-repair bill.
The "Petition for Leave to Appeal" filed by the Department of Justice lawyers concludes with the words "Secretary La Follette respectfully requests... an ex parte order granting temporary relief from the TRO entered by Judge Sumi on March 18, 2011..."
But the thing is... nobody asked La Follette about whether he has objection to Judge Sumi's order.
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The secretary of state says he has not complained about the judge's order.
Indeed, he says, he has already acted in accordance with it, in a move that he says allows him to "fulfill the public trust in my office."
The secretary of state, who delayed publication of the law until March 25 because of his own concerns regarding the legal wrangling over the measure, as well as his desire to help local officials resolve questions and confusion regarding the sweeping measure, said in a statement that "Based on the Temporary Restraining Order entered on March 18, 2011, I have ordered 2011 Wisconsin Act 10 not be published until further notice. This means that the Act will not become law until the present legal issues surrounding the Act are resolved."
more...
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_1cd4920c-541c-11e0-8303-001cc4c03286.htmlThe way I read it La Follete will not publish the law until the issue is resolved, stay or no stay.
Suck it! J.B. Van Hollen!! THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!!!!
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