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Posted by: Kyle Maichle
Yesterday, I just got my weekly e-mail update from the Show Me the Spending Coalition from the National Taxpayers Union. The National Taxpayers Union couldn’t be anymore right as they highlighted Wisconsin as a national embarrassment for transparency in State Government. As this year unfolded, we have seen more scandals brew in state government that if Wisconsin was like Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri which had transparency websites we would not have these problems.
The North Shore Exponent has highlighted on this site before that the party that blocking progress towards transparency is the Democratic Party. As Republicans Rich Zipperer and Bill Kramer have introduced comprehensive transparency bills in the Legislature in this session, Democrats like Assembly State Affairs Committee Chairman “Red Fred” Kessler have refused to hold public hearings. What is more appaling, in the last legislative session, Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker let all transparency bills die in rules committee. The bills passed by resounding margins in the Assembly, but Senate Majority Leader Decker and Fred Risser had the audacity to kill what would have been the first step to restoring public confidence in Wisconsin government. More