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Related: About this forumOne Wisconsin Now Considering Legal Action Over Justice Bradley ‘Deceptive, Dishonest Records Denial
"MADISON, Wis. Based on her comments in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Rebecca Bradley, appointed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court by Gov. Scott Walker in September, violated the states open record laws by providing falsified calendars to One Wisconsin Now in response to a request for her work calendar. One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross said the organization is consulting with legal counsel about potential action against Walkers thrice-appointed judge.
After repeated delays, Rebecca Bradley wrote us that she had fulfilled our simple open records request for her taxpayer-financed calendar, said Scot Ross, One Wisconsin Now Executive Director. Now it turns out the years of blank pages she gave and charged us at an exorbitant rate to retrieve were a complete fraud and fabrication.
In September, One Wisconsin Now requested Bradleys calendar. Only after being contacted by the media regarding the delay in release, did Bradley finally produce a calendar to One Wisconsin Now. The calendar included just a handful of meetings over the course of nearly three years. When Bradley was contacted by a reporter about the anemic calendar, Bradley suddenly claimed she didnt have access to her previous judicial calendars.
In its communications to Bradley, One Wisconsin Nows research director explicitly requested If you are no longer the custodian for these records, please advise as to who is the current custodian so that I may forward my request to them. Bradley not only failed to do that, she deceptively, dishonestly and in violation of laws understood by first year law students provided One Wisconsin Now with a response letter and dozens of falsified calendars which she charged for the printing and retrieval of using an hourly rate at the equivalent of a near-$140,000 salary."
http://onewisconsinnow.org/press/newspaper-report-confirms-justice-bradley-provided-phony-records-in-response-to-legal-open-records-request/
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)sybylla
(8,495 posts)Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)Thanks for the post midnight.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)To "protect" judges from terrorists or something.
The same way Wisconsin State Sen. Leah Vukmir (ALEC: First Vice Chair) can legally conceal her interactions from FOIA requests while the State Senate is is session, at least according to the State AG (Van Hollen).
Wi has a new AG as of 1-5-15, Brad Schimel. As he is from deep within the power structure of the republican fortress of Waukesha County; I'm pretty sure Vukmir's/ALEC's manipulations are safe from sunlight.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Prosser will prevent anything from going forward.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,951 posts)humans never learn.
dragonlady
(3,577 posts)We are fortunate they are working on our behalf.