LRB: Fitzgerald Pressured Them to Publish Bill
Yesterday, I heard from a good source that the head of the LRB would never publish the bill under the current circumstances on their own-- that there was clearly pressure from Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald to publish the bill.
That is exactly what happened:
Fitzgerald and Miller met Friday. Miller said Fitzgerald asked him to publish the law and, after reading the statutes, Miller agreed that he could do so. He said he had never published a law without being given a date by the secretary of state during his 12 years of running the reference bureau.
This same source tells me that the LRB and anyone dealing with a court order has an obligation to follow it. You
Worst. Ad. Ever?
"It is false factually. It is malicious beyond belief. It is the worst ad we can think of that has ever been run in a judicial campaign." -- David Prosser on a Greater Wisconsin Committee commercial.Really? The worst ever? The justice has a very short memory.
Would it be too much to expect some enterprising reporter to ask him what is false about the commercial, since
Can we take a time out?
Maybe, instead of trying to be the first with "breaking news" in the 24-hour news cycle -- which is almost 100% speculative, since no one really has been able to sort out what publication of the act by the Legislative Reference Bureau means -- we should all take a deep breath and wait for something authoritative to emerge.