Holloway Saga Now a State Issue
Many interested observers who live outside Milwaukee County view the Holloway saga as nothing more than a ‘Milwaukee problem.’
No longer.
Thanks to the actions of the Wisconsin Counties Association, taxpayers in nearly every county in Wisconsin are now paying the price for Milwaukee County’s Lee Holloway mess.
The Association, which receives dues (tax dollars) from nearly every county in the state, has paid for legal research which (they believe) supports Holloway’s contention that it would take a two-thirds vote of the Board to remove him as chair in the middle of his term.
It is conceivable that the WCA could be encouraged to intervene in the case on Holloway’s behalf, just as the NAACP has asserted it will. For the sake of taxpayers across the state, let’s hope not.
From social services to criminal justice and from law enforcement to cultural enrichment, I know that the work of county government is vital to all of us in Wisconsin. I’ve been a supporter of county government and of the WCA for many years. I’ve been honored to be a three-time recipient of their legislative staff recognition award and I’ve been a lecturer at their annual conference on more than one occasion. In short, I’m a fan of the WCA.
But their findings with regard to this matter are more than disheartening. Frankly, it smacks of an organization going out of its way to prop up a major funding source. We all know Holloway plays hardball. He's even bragged about that. I imagine he could take steps to reduce or eliminate Milwaukee’s membership dues to WCA if he was so moved.
The one upside, this development has raised the stakes and made it an issue that should concern taxpayers in nearly every county across the state. Now, their tax dollars have been spent to keep Holloway at the helm of the Milwaukee County Board.
5 Comments:
This post is perhaps the most dishonest yet on Holloway. Lautenschlager and the supervisors who declared that that could get rid of Holloway with a simple majority are entirely responsible for creating this mess.
When Peg kinda sorta overturned a hundred years of law and then refused to issue a formal decision, she created a problem for counties across the state where there had been no problem before.
Your previous attempts to smear Holloway were on thing; this post blaming Holloway for the mess and for WCA's work amounts to a flat lie.
Hey brave anonymous commenter, Holloway caused this mess with his behavior and his refusal to do the right thing, and I have NOT lied.
Holloway is not the one who decided to challenge the law as its always stood, requiring 2/3ds vote to remove. That was trhe supervisors who want to get him out before the ethcis stuff is over. And, Lautenschlager created total chaos with her informal, half opinion, operturning established law on the back of a cocktail napkin.
The supervisors could have decided not to challenge established law, and Peg could have decided to do her job properly.
Holloway had nothing to do with any of this. So, yeah your post is completely dishonest. Liar liar pants on fire.
But, I love the fact that your first attack is that I post anonymously. The fact is that you throw around so much reckless garbage, I just don't want to be on your radar screen.
As long as the counties continue to employ useless lobbyists who do nothing but take up space and steal oxygen from others (yes, I'm looking at you Kenosha, Outagamie, Waukesha and Dane counties), any claims they make about being "unable to cut" any more from the budget will remain nothing but lies.
Ah, the milk of human kindness has never passed the lips of "just a guy" has it?
Didn't you listen when your parents advised you that an unkind, ungentle and unforgiving way of speaking to issues, and about people, will always call forth a response that is almost always harshly critical and utterly unsympathetic.
What a pity you didn't understand such a simple admonition.
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