Posted on 10/09/2014 10:18:07 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
MADISON – During a luncheon yesterday in Madison, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester, 53rd District) said that Government Accountability Board Director Kevin Kennedy should go.
Speaker Vos made the comment during a lunch-time speaking engagement with Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca (D-Kenosha, 64th District). The comments made by the Assembly Speaker came after he responded to a question from Jeff Mayers of WisPolitics.com regarding campaign finance laws.
Vos said that the GAB will not exist in its current format two years from now. “I promise you that two years from now the GAB will not be in the current format. It is dysfunctional, it is unresponsive and totally undemocratic,” said the Speaker. The Government Accountability Board came in its current format in 2008 replacing the former State Elections and Ethics Boards. Currently, six retired judges serve on the board along with Kennedy serving as the full-time Director.
The Assembly Speaker was also party in a recent lawsuit against the Government Accountability Board in which he along with Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald sued the elections authority over the redesign of the general election ballot. “When you have the GAB Director decide with no input from the board that they can redesign the ballot with a sweetheart contract going to someone who is an elected Democrat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors…that goes to show unresponsive the GAB is. Kevin Kennedy needs to go.”
A Waukesha County judge dismissed the lawsuit on procedural grounds. Vos did not specify which proposals he would undertake to reform the GAB.
Whoopee! I’ve been saying this for 20 years — ever since Kennedy gave me some very poor (and erroneous) advice when he was in charge of “ethics”.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
Make it so.
*APPLAUSE*
I’ve always said that the GAB was the STUPIDEST thing Wisconsin Republicans EVER came up with. Glad he’s seeing the light of day. Yeesh!
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