Republican legislative leaders voted tohire two law firms to defend two lawmakers the state attorney general says hid drafts of a bill that would let Wisconsinites carry concealed weapons. Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager sued state Sen. Dave Zien, R-Eau Claire, and Rep. Scott Gunderson, R-Waterford, in September. She accused them of providing a copy of the bill to a National Rifle Association lobbyist but refusing the Justice Department's public records request for the draft.
The Joint Committee on Legislative Organization mailed ballots to its members last week asking them to authorize hiring the law firm of Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek to represent Zien and the law firm of Michael Best & Friedrich to represent Gunderson.
The Republican-controlled committee voted 6-4 along party lines to hire the firms, with the last ballots arriving Tuesday. The ballot didn't set any limits for how much the Legislature would pay the firms.
Neither Gunderson nor Zien immediately returned messages The Associated Press left at their Capitol and district offices Tuesday.
Republican legislators introduced the concealed weapon legislation late last month.
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Who is supposed to be writing law, Zien or the NRA? Who was on the ballot?
1 comment:
Illegal? That is just an opinion. Just like the illegal gambling machines paying out cash in Oshkosh. Just like the no-bid bathrooms at the Leach. Just like the sales tax dollars not being used to reduce property taxes in many counties. Show me a law and I will show you a politician who can and will find a way around it.
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