Let’s just say there was something amiss in previous Waukesha County elections as suggested here.
Let’s say misdeeds in those elections are proved, but all the suspicous activities surrounding the David Prosser / JoAnne Kloppenburg race remain just suspicious activities.
What happens? Does Prosser remain a Supreme Court justice by virtue of unprovable election fraud?
…remind me of the State Supreme Court race?
Although the backup stunk less than the Waukesha County ballot count and was much easier to clean up. And I threw out only some laundry and mops, not faith in the integrity of the electoral process.
Fought against Time-Warner’s effort to raise my internet rate. Victory!
Went to my first Brewers’ game of the season last night. Victory!
Really, really wanted JoAnne Kloppenburg to win. Victory!
Sometimes life just falls right.
This is part 2 of “Points Well Made” from Monday’s meeting of the Common Council’s Judiciary and Legislation Committee. The committee was discussing Gov. Scott Walker’s brutal proposal to strip collective bargaining rights from public employees.
Ald. Robert Bauman: “What’s the remedy if all our forestry and sanitation workers strike with the next big snowfall?”
City Labor Negotiator Troy Hamblin: “The new law says if they’re gone for three days we have the ability to terminate them.”
Bauman: “Then what’s our remedy?”
(Laughter)
Committee Chairman Ald. Ashanti Hamilton: “Cause the snow is still there.”
Hamblin: “I don’t know. I just — I don’t know.”
City lobbyist Jennifer Gonda: “That is exactly the point I was making. There are some practical implications here that, frankly, weren’t well thought out in the drafting of the bill.”
Ald. Robert Bauman raised an interesting question duringMonday’s meeting of the Common Council’s Judiciary and Legislation Committee.
“Is that whole arrangement subject to an equal protection challenge?” he asked. He was referring to the way Gov. Scott Walker’s union-busting bill treated the police union (which would be able to arbitrate on an issue-by-issue basis under Walker’s bill) is treated better than even the firefighters’ union (still with collective bargaining rights, but no issue-by-issue arbitration under the Walker bill) and every other city union (totally screwed under the Walker bill).
Bauman’s question is met with a momentary silence that said it all.
“Very good,” he said then.
“Closed session,” Committee Chair Ald. Ashanti Hamilton told him.