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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBeing ethically challenged: GOP leaders preparing to dismantle Wisconsin elections agency
http://www.wrn.com/2015/09/gop-legislative-leaders-preparing-to-dismantle-wisconsin-elections-agency/September 21, 2015 By Bob Hague
Republican legislative leaders in Madison are moving forward with plans to dismantle the states nonpartisan elections and ethics agency, and will likely act this fall. State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says discussions are underway, within his Senate GOP caucus and with the Assembly.
My personal preference is to go back to kind of the balanced approach that we had in the previous elections board, and then with a separate ethics board as well, Fitzgerald said.
In 2007, lawmakers of both of political parties signed off on the legislation which created the Government Accountability Board to oversee state campaign and elections law. Now however, the agency has drawn fire from Republicans. GOP leadership have cited GAP participation in a pair of John Doe investigations surrounding Governor Scott Walker one targeting his office when he was Milwaukee County executive and another that was looking in to potentially illegal coordination between his campaign and conservative groups during the 2012 recall election. Republicans have argued both investigations were politically motivated.
Governor Scott Walker has called for replacing the agency entirely, with something that would be more accountable to the public. We have been for some time trying to come up with something we think will make sense not only to the caucus members, but to the governors office, because they have a stake in this, too, Fitzgerald said.
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Being ethically challenged: GOP leaders preparing to dismantle Wisconsin elections agency (Original Post)
HereSince1628
Sep 2015
OP
They want a GAB accountable to the people...so they want to match it to what?
HereSince1628
Sep 2015
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ZM90
(706 posts)1. GOP: "Ethics what's that?" n/t.
liberal N proud
(60,298 posts)2. They would do away with elections entirely if they could
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)3. They want a GAB accountable to the people...so they want to match it to what?
The interests of the republican caucus and the staff of the republican governor.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)4. I'm sure the Wisconsin House Of Republican Ethics and Sanctimony will come up with something.