Judge blocks Wi. Blocks budget repair bill (healthcare, retirements, state)

[jojajn]

Originally Posted by RCCCB

On what grounds?

They violated the open meetings law.

A Dane County judge Friday ordered a temporary halt to Gov. Scott Walker's controversial measure curbing collective bargaining for public employees, saying a legislative committee likely violated the state Open Meetings Law when it rushed passage of the bill earlier this month.

Judge orders temporary halt to collective bargaining law; state will appeal

[jojajn]

Originally Posted by pghquest

You do realize that the state collective bargaining is not part of the budget bill right?

We sure do! It never was about the budget like Walker lied about initially.

[jojajn]

Originally Posted by steelstress

Now that the dems are back, why not just vote on the original bill?

It was stripped from the budget bill so that they could vote on it without the democrats present. Therefore, the original bill no longer contains the non-budget issue of collective bargaining.

[Frank DeForrest]

Originally Posted by jojajn

We sure do! It never was about the budget like Walker lied about initially.

Tell it to the people that have to keep coming up with the money to pay escalating property taxes.

[SourD]

Originally Posted by jojajn

They violated the open meetings law.


Judge orders temporary halt to collective bargaining law; state will appeal

They didn't violate anything. The law has been posted already. The judge is wrong and this will get overturned.

[jojajn]

Originally Posted by UpNort

During SPECIAL session, they can vote WITHOUT any notice. That is how OUR LAW in Wisconsin is written.

Only in an emergency. What was the emergency with passing the bill that strips public workers of collective bargaining?

[jojajn]

Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest

Tell it to the people that have to keep coming up with the money to pay escalating property taxes.

Tell it to gov. Walker who admittedly stripped collective bargaining out of the budget bill.

[Willsson]

Ozanne, a Democrat, the guy who asked for and received a temporary restraining order against the law was never elected to the position. He was selected as a replacement for the former DA who was elected to the state appellate court. Ozanne had two letters of recommendation, the next closest candidate had 77 letters of recommendation.

Some question if Ozanne is working in the best interest of the people or paying a public debt.

Links available at Google.

The job had three contenders: assistant DA Tim Kiefer, deputy DA Tim Verhoff and Ozanne.

[jojajn]

Originally Posted by SourD

They didn't violate anything. The law has been posted already. The judge is wrong and this will get overturned.

Wrong.

Here is the law;

(3) Public notice of every meeting of a governmental body shall be given at least 24 hours prior to the commencement of such meeting unless for good cause such notice is impossible or impractical, in which case shorter notice may be given, but in no case may the notice be provided less than 2 hours in advance of the meeting.

Wisconsin Open Meetings Law

[SourD]

Originally Posted by jojajn

Wrong.

Here is the law;


Wisconsin Open Meetings Law

They had plenty of notice.