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Your Right to Know: Bill would make it harder to follow the money
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It might be about to get tougher—a lot tougher—to follow the money in Wisconsin politics.
Wisconsin Watch Media Partners Center (https://partners.wisconsinwatch.org/tag/wisconsin-assembly/)
It might be about to get tougher—a lot tougher—to follow the money in Wisconsin politics.
On July 9, the members of the Wisconsin state Assembly collectively affirmed their support for open government. They passed a resolution stating that the Assembly “remains committed to our state’s open record and open government laws and policies, and will take all necessary steps to ensure that these laws and policies are preserved without modification or degradation.” They vowed to “continue to work to uphold these principles and protections.”
Significantly, in all three areas under review in the report — tenure, turnover and reelection — the trends of the past several decades have not held true in the most recent elections.