Wis. Senate Fast-Tracks Mining Bill

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http://www.progressive.org/wis_senate_fast_tracks_mining_bill.html

Members of the Senate Committee on Mining Jobs from both parties have been telling the public that the mining bill passed by the Assembly in January was a dead. They also assured the people of Wisconsin that a Senate version of the bill would move through the legislative process more deliberately and have more accessible public hearings before going to a vote.

So it came as a great surprise this afternoon when the committee announced it would be holding a hearing this coming Friday, less than four days away, in Platteville, WI, 350 miles away from the proposed mine site.

A 191-page draft of the bill was released today, along with a three-page Legislative Council memo comparing this proposal to AB 426, the bill that passed the Assembly on January 26, 2012 on a party line vote. According to the memo, the senate version, “retains most of the provisions of the bill” passed by the Assembly.

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1. These lying shitstains are afraid to do their business in the light of day.

Recall, indictments, whatever, these fuckers have got to go.