I haven’t talked much about ongoing negotiations between Democrats and Republicans to get a budget passed for the 2007-2009 biennium, but as I was reading through some press releases, I came across this gem written by Marty Beil, executive director of the Wisconsin State Employees Union, which represents thousands of state employees. The press release is highly critical of Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch’s hypocrisy when it comes to getting a budget deal done.
Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch and his committee sidekicks the Fitzgerald brothers will spend all day Thursday running from fundraiser to fundraiser – in direct conflict with the Conference Committee schedule and with Huebsch’s pious proclamations at the beginning of the process that he would work at least 40 hours a week to get the budget done.
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In the next 10 days, Huebsch is scheduled to be at no fewer than six fundraising events while no meetings of the Conference Committee he co-chairs are scheduled.
Now maybe I’m just dense, but I haven’t noticed a lot being done by the Conference Committee to get a budget deal done, so I can’t help but wonder if Mike Huebsch told a little white lie when he said he’d work at least 40 hours a week to get a budget deal done. After all, playing a few rounds of golf with campaign donors hardly seems like work to me…
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