Gov. Scott Walker continues to rip government out of the hands of the people as quickly as he can. Yesterday he paved the way to closing meetings to the public when it is incovenient to have the public know what is going on.
The Building Commission met and when about 50 people were in the room, the doors were closed and no one else was let in.
Walker, reports the JS, said the meeting was 100% open. “We can’t put more people in than there is space to stand and sit around in,” he said.
Well, what a load of crap. The meeting could have been moved. There could have been an overflow room set up with audio and / or video. Walker’s lame-brain thrashing about to justify slamming the door on public access will, if his Swiss-cheesy reasoning is allowed to stand, have a terrible consequence: one side or the other can pack meeting rooms, essentially shutting out opponents.
On the same day the governor gave the middle finger to public access, he did not allow school superintendents into a press conference Walker called to give really spurious information about his proposed budget’s impact on public education. Walker did not want any inconvenient truths spoken.
This isn’t democracy in any recognizable form. It is, unfortunately, Walker’s Wisconsin.
