Walker 'reforms' should be tested at home
Gov wannabe Scott Walker, the only member of the Assembly besides Mark Green who was shocked, shocked to hear that Republican staffers were illegal working on campaigns, has proposed a package of ethics reforms.
My favorite proposal is term limits for state officials. Talk about an idea whose time has come and gone. Even some of the Republicans who got elected to Congress as supporters of term limits decided, once they got their, that it was a bad idea.
A close second is a part-time legislature. Even if it were a good idea, what do you think the odds are that will ever happen?
Walker, the Milwaukee County executive, thinks we should have a part-time legislature but a full-time, 19-member County Board? (Actually, he wishes there were no county board and he could jujst rule by fiat, but he hasn't proposed that.)
Maybe he should give those ideas -- term limits and part-time legislators -- a test run at home before taking them statewide.
Of course, he knows those are proposals that will never go anywhere. But they might sound good to some voters, and serve as filler in his reform package.
But, clearly, as Bob Dylan would say, they ain't going nowhere.
posted by xoff @ 8:02 AM
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For someone that worked so hard (and unsuccessfully) to unseat Walker in 2004, you should recall that he pushed to make the county board a part-time body shorlty after his first election. Further, he even tried to change the County Executive position to a county Administrator. Sound familiar? Walker is not just proposing sweet campaign promises -he is acting at home. The bureaucrats down at the Board, however, were and are unwilling to place the people first.
Does anyone get the impression that Scott Walker will just keep throwing wads up to the ceiling to see if some will stick?
Isn't it time for a "Scott Free" state capital?
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