Jay Heck
Jay Heck
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It would be hard to see how the other defendants are going to escape any penalty given what's happened here.
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For the first time, normal citizens focused on this issue, weighed the evidence and found their public trust was violated.
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If this is introduced in the beginning of next session, then I think there's reason for concern.
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It's great that Green is calling for spending limits. He ought to go a step further and call for campaign finance reform.
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This is the first time that normal citizens had a chance to speak on the biggest and most widespread political scandal in Wisconsin history. They resoundingly said that this was a profound violation of the public trust.
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It's almost as if legislators are outsourcing one of their primary duties of drafting laws, and they're allowing the private sector to take over that responsibility. This is a full-time Legislature. You'd think that would be something that, rather than give lobbyists the primary duty to draft legislation, our full-time legislators should be doing.
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It will only make people more distrustful of government. What we need is more openness, not less. There is no way this is beneficial Citizens ought to be outraged.