They've driven the state into the ALEC Gravity Well and from here everything is down the slippery slope.

This is NEW! Walker is a lying sack of shi**!


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Scott Walker's office pushed for language to gut open records law. via @journalsentinel http://bit.ly/1LYefPI



Scott Walker's office pushed for language to gut open records law
By Patrick Marley and Mary Spicuzza of the Journal Sentinel
July 29, 2015

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Madison— Gov. Scott Walker's office pushed to add language into the attempted overhaul of Wisconsin's open records law that would have shielded briefings, discussions about policy drafts and other "deliberative" documents, newly released documents show.

The records, described as "deliberative process materials," would have also made unavailable to the public opinions, analyses, recommendations, suggestions and notes that preceded a final decision.

The documents showing the GOP White House hopeful's role in trying to change the open records law came as Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel held a summit Wednesday on open government and said such laws should not be weakened.

Republicans on the Legislature's budget committee advanced a measure to gut the open records law July 2, but quickly backed off amid a public outcry.

Walker has acknowledged his office had a role in developing the plan, but he also has tried to distance himself from it, saying this month the overall proposal "didn't come from us."

Early versions of the sweeping open records limits did not include language preventing the release of deliberative materials. But limits to "deliberative process materials" were in place by June 15, a review of newly available records shows.

That was the same day Michael Gallagher, an attorney with the Legislative Reference Bureau, wrote to an aide to Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) indicating he had spoken to Walker assistant legal counsel David Rabe about the changes.

Gallagher's June 15 email had a subject line of "Governor's request."

"In the interest of expediency, I am going to enter this as a separate Speaker Vos request and copy David Rabe from the governor's office on it. I just talked to David. He is fine with proceeding that way," Gallagher wrote in the email. "Let me know if you want to do it differently."...........

Madison.com Politics ?@MadPolitics 41m41 minutes ago
Another article from today!


Email links #ScottWalker to open records changes http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/email-links-scott-walker-to-open-records-changes/article_67ee3888-1dcc-5dbe-b645-c5c951dff0ef.html …





Email links Scott Walker to open records changes

51 minutes ago • By Molly Beck | Wisconsin State Journal
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Republican presidential candidate, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker meets with voters, Tuesday during a campaign stop at Geno's Steaks in Philadelphia.


Gov. Scott Walker’s office was a key player in drafting legislation that would have exempted from public scrutiny government materials considered part of a “deliberative process,” newly released documents suggest.

Walker’s staff worked on the language that would have amended the state’s open records law through the office of Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, according to an email released to the State Journal through an open records request to Vos.

In a June 15 email to Vos aide Andrew Hanus with the subject line “Governor’s request,” Michael Gallagher of the Legislative Reference Bureau wrote:

“In the interest of expediency, I am going to enter this as a Speaker Vos request and copy David Rabe from the Governor’s office on it. I just talked to David. He is fine with proceeding that way. Let me know if you want to do it differently. It should go out tomorrow morning.”

The next morning the LRB’s legal department emailed draft legislative language that would have exempted drafts and notes, personal property and a series of other materials from being public records..............

Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/email-links-scott-walker-to-open-records-changes/article_67ee3888-1dcc-5dbe-b645-c5c951dff0ef.html#ixzz3hNCN6WAP

these antidemocratic ideas seem to be just the sort of deliberative documents that would be withheld from public view. Given this report, the open records law change proposals seem to be quite nearly the most nepharious thing to come out of this administration.

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Insulated by the legislature's leadership...Fitz has his front, Vos has his 6 oclock.

Walker stands bemused saying to himself...gee, Fitz, that's a great talking point...was that in this month's newsletter?

I thought it was a great photo also of our 'leaders"---but you added live to it.

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George Stanley ?@geostanley 17h17 hours ago

Scott Walker & lawmakers secretly rewrote open records law month before sneaking it into budget bill at last minute http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/brad-schimel-kicks-off-open-government-summit-b99546843z1-319422891.html …
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ScooterChrist Walker ?@ScooterChrist 17h17 hours ago

My office, not me. *wink* "Walker’s office pushed for language to gut open records law" http://on.jsonl.in/1gmi18w #p2 #wiunion #walker2016
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vestigial arm from incompletely consumed twin while in utero, or is it a tumor? I think it's probably not a tumor! (arnold) He needs a new barber. That or maybe it's fallout from the time he banged his head on the kitchen cabinets causing male pattern baldness.

print out a picture of him, fold it in half and hold it to a mirror.

The two sides of his face belong to 2 different people... strangely, between them they only account for half the ability of a human brain.