“MADISON (WKOW) -- In a stirring, swift decision, Dane County judge Maryann Sumi stopped Governor Walker's controversial budget repair bill in its tracks, issuing a temporary restraining order and stating Wisconsin's open meetings law was probably violated when a legislative conference committee rushed the bill through to the state Senate.
"We own our government," Sumi told a crowded courtroom, as she likened the people's stake in what happens in the legislature to the stake individual stockholders have in the operation and fortunes of the Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers.
Sumi said the law providing access to government meetings is "...not a minor detail," in rejecting arguments by assistant attorneys general that fines were sufficient penalties against lawmakers, if an open meetings law violation occurred…”
Well well… What do you think of that?
It sounds like the state knew they broke the law and wanted just some fines so they could put the anti-worker, anti-union, anti-teacher, anti-public employee law into effect and the judge sent them a message.
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