We want fewer open records, Scott Walker's #ALEC Republicans say--and they will pass the bill

[riversedge]

These are Scott Walker's #ALEC #Republicans that did this #IOWA #nhpolitics #uniteblue

State Debate: Blogger sees the 'beginning of the end of open records' in Wisconsin http://host.madison.com/news/local/state-debate/state-debate-blogger-sees-the-beginning-of-the-end-of/article_5aa84566-20db-11e5-819a-f71f7380ad66.html …


Post-Crescent Media ?@PostCrescent 13s14 seconds ago

We want fewer open records, Scott Walker's #ALEC #Republicans say. http://post.cr/1NBMsSd

Destroy ALEC ?@Destroy_ALEC 4m4 minutes ago
Coming to UR state next? - no more open records. http://wispolitics.com/1006/150702999Motion.pdf … Items 28 - 32, nasty stuff.

Destroy ALEC added,
Allison @Alleypantz
WI state leg. isn't even TRYING to feign integrity w/the new open records proposal. @ScottWalker #ALEC agenda locked and loaded. #fuckyou
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[Still In Wisconsin]

1. Here's what I find most telling:

None of them- NONE- will claim ownership of this.

This is so obviously ALEC it isn't even funny. This is ALEC not wanting us to know when we are being ALEC'd and the Republicans doing as they are told.

THIS is what the dumbasses voted for who put these worse-than-worthless clowns in office. Just look at Nygren and Darling sitting there- I may now hate them as much as I hate spiteful little prick Robin Vos and Scott Kevin Walker himself.

[randys1]

3. How crazy is it that middle class hard working Americans support these vile criminal fucks!

WAKE UP you STUPID assholes!

I know, calling them assholes wont help, but I dont know what else to do anymore.

The depth of stupid, wow.

[Still In Wisconsin]

7. at least Walker has fallen to 40% approval in Wisconsin now

Too little, too late, I know. But you know what? Walker doesn't give a fuck what people in Wisconsin think now. He is playing to Iowans, and South Carolinians, and whatever people from New Hampshire are called.

[elfin]

2. Just in time to shield his corrupt record for his big run

Heinous and bald-faced dictatorial act. Plus, Alberta Darling is closing in on being as horrid and hateful as the Weasel. I weep for my Wisconsin.

[Still In Wisconsin]

9. The ironically named Alberta Darling...

she has always been an evil wretch of the worst kind. Alberta is a soulless wraith with lipstick and heels.

[riversedge]

11. +1

[Fred Sanders]

4. Does this mean that voraciously demanding all the records down to doodle notes from Clinton will end?

Full transparency for thee, but not for me??

[riversedge]

5. Whow!! Wisconsin AG--a Republican: Diminishing public records takes state 'in wrong direction':

Whow!! Wisconsin AG--a Republican: Diminishing public records takes state 'in wrong direction': http://bit.ly/1HBmC0u #wipolitics #p2



Wisconsin Attorney General: GOP move to block public records access a step in 'wrong direction'
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31 minutes ago • By Jessie Opoien | The Capital Times


Attorney General Brad Schimel




Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel on Friday voiced his opposition to sweeping changes to the state's open records laws passed by Republicans on the Legislature's budget committee late Thursday night.

"Transparency is the cornerstone of democracy and the provisions in the Budget Bill limiting access to public records move Wisconsin in the wrong direction," Schimel said in an email.

Last month, Schimel, a Republican, launched an Office of Open Government in an effort to increase openness and transparency with regard to government records.

During the Joint Finance Committee's debate on the proposal, Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, asked committee co-chairman Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, whether Schimel had seen or signed off on the committee's changes.

"I can't speak to that," Nygren responded....

Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/wisconsin-attorney-general-gop-move-to-block-public-records-access/article_3e796260-2196-11e5-8f2c-f751f5f560d1.html#ixzz3eqW9riEE

[Still In Wisconsin]

8. Might this guy actually be sane?

Might our AG not be a TOTAL Walker bootlicker?

[riversedge]

10. It very much surprised me to see that comment. Makes

me wonder What is UP?? I am paranoid when it comes to repugs!

[Still In Wisconsin]

12. It's not paranoia...

it's logical skepticism.

[riversedge]

6. Also a link in LBN...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141135411#post20

[alterfurz]

13. The crowning irony/insult is...

...that the author(s) made the changes retroactive to July 1, so that no one could find out who collaborated, drafted and inserted them.

[elfin]

14. I have Dem friends who have worked with this AG - and like him

They say he is a "good" Republican - conservative, but not in that hateful way.

Bet Walker squishes him like a bug.

[Still In Wisconsin]

15. I don't know...

The blowback on this has been huge. The AG is not the only R coming out strongly against this. Walker may have really stepped in some doodoo here.

[riversedge]

16. Conservative newspaper suggests recall of WisGOP's Alberta Darling and John Nygren

WE need more editorials like this one!

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Spud Lovr ?@SpudLovr 5h5 hours ago

Conservative newspaper suggests recall of WisGOP's Alberta Darling and John Nygren http://www.lakelandtimes.com/main.asp?SectionID=10&SubSectionID=68&ArticleID=25113 … #wiunion #wiright #openrecordsgate



7/3/2015 2:53:00 PM
Our View: The Wisconsin Republican Party: Corruption, cronyism, and sleaze


http://www.lakelandtimes.com/main.asp?SectionID=10&SubSectionID=68&ArticleID=25113

As it stands, the Thursday night, pre-holiday attempt to eviscerate the state’s open records laws is a political calamity for the Republicans — there’s no way this outrage won’t damage the GOP brand — but unless it’s pulled from the budget it will become a policy travesty that will do far more harm to the very foundation of democracy.

It is nothing less than the attempted murder of honest government, and the perpetrators of it deserve the political equivalent of the death sentence: recall. To that end, the co-chairs of the Joint Finance Committee, Sen. Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) and Rep. John Nygren (R-Marinette), need to come clean and tell the world who authored this attack on democratic principles.

If they won’t, they need to be recalled.................

[riversedge]

19. hope the doodoo sticks to his feet this time

[Still In Wisconsin]

17. The longer this goes on the more I think that the most important part

is that we eventually find out who put it forward!

[riversedge]

18. I think so to.

[Still In Wisconsin]

20. Yep. The "drafting error" crap we were fed when the "Wisconsin Idea" thing came to light was

one thing. This, however, is a huge effing deal. Don't get me wrong- the UW system stuff was and is huge (I am a UW alum and employee). This, however, was an attempt at fascism. People throw that term around far too loosely in my opinion, much as they throw around Hitler comparisons. But attempting to eliminate the ability of a governed people to examine their own government? If that's not fascism I don't know what is! We must find out who did this. Again, I have very little doubt that the trail will lead directly to someone with the initials S.K.W.