http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/feb05/303977.aspAttorney general shut outLautenschlager wants to speak at drug hearing
By GRAEME ZIELINSKI
gzielinski@journalsentinel.com
Posted: Feb. 22, 2005
"Crank" or cranky politics?
It appears a little bit of both as Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager apparently is being shut out of a Capitol hearing today addressing the growth of methamphetamine use in Wisconsin.
The Republican chairing the panel, Rep. Scott Suder (R-Abbotsford) says that Lautenschlager waited too long to ask to speak at the hearing and her late appeals amounted to grandstanding: "This is not about Peg Lautenschlager. This is about methamphetamine."
The Democratic attorney general, meanwhile, questioned Suder's assessment, saying she was puzzled that he will be denying her, but accepting the testimony of one of her subordinates: "This is not about me. This is about methamphetamine."
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Leave it to "Scooter," my reptilian representative who loves to exclaim to the adoring masses that he's sooooo bipartisan, to behave in such a partisan manner.
I think it's the epitomy of arrogance to think you can create meth legislation without asking for the testimony and advice of the experts. Yeah, the article says they invited an underling with experience, but to refuse the AG seems ridiculious. IMHO, the fact that they didn't send the invite to her in the first place and allow her to decide who should attend is quite oderiferous.
And Peg is fighting back! Go girl!
I think its time to pass this around to my Dem friends for a few highly partisan LTTEs.