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The Wisconsin state Senate voted Tuesday to oust the administrators of the state’s Ethics and Elections commissions after Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said he and most Republicans have “no confidence” in them.
The votes fell on party lines. Fitzgerald said Tuesday evening that both administrators had been terminated as state employees.
Fitzgerald and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, called for Elections Commission administrator Michael Haas and Ethics Commission administrator Brian Bell to resign last month, citing concerns with “partisan influence remaining” in the two commissions that replaced the now-defunct Government Accountability Board.
Even if these two were as clean as the driven snow (Bell might have been. Haas most certainly was not), they are tainted by their employment by the corrupt GAB, and everything the Elections and Ethics Commissions touch would also have been tainted. They had to go. And the failure of the commissioners to clean up their staff on their own doesn’t speak well of their competence.
Not a question of “competence”, Owen. It’s a question of convictions. You have them, or you don’t.
By and large, Madison has the same problem that D.C. does. There’s an Establishment which has convictions with the consistency of Jell-O (at best.) And yes, that includes Walker and many of his appointments.
I could not agree more.
is the real proof. If Bell and Haas had wanted to turn over a new leaf, one can safely assume some staff would have been transferred or terminated.
So the WisGOP solution to too much partisan influence is to reappoint new folks with proven party ties?
“they are tainted by their employment”. Pretty big assumption without much proof.
Using that criteria, can a former Enron employee ever work in the energy business again ?
PLEASE READ AGAIN – If Bell and Haas had wanted to turn over a new leaf, one can safely assume SOME (emphasis added) staff would have been transferred or terminated.
Undoubtedly, the last attempt at a solution (GAB) did not work as intended. As there seems to be a disagreement with the current attempt, I would think someone would propose a better solution instead of just complaining.