Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Holloway Ethics Case Funding Showdown Thursday

Tomorrow's Finance Committee meeting should be interesting.

That is, IF the members of the committee have the courage to show up. As we know, attendance at meetings is not some folks' strong suit.

For example, May 2004-September 2005:
Elizabeth Coggs-Jones
Finance and Audit Committee 5 absences, 4 tardies, showed up on time four times.
Coggs-Jones joined Supervisors Mayo, Johnson, and West in denying additional funding in the Holloway case when they showed up for the meeting last week.

I don't think they'd be dumb enough to bail tomorrow though.

Now, the meeting is at 8:30 am, which, thankfully is a full 30 minutes after 8am.

Why is this important? Well, consider this.

Baker blasted Milwaukee's "head in the sand" approach to addressing health disparities, and lashed out at two county supervisors on the task force who have rarely showed up for meetings and were absent Tuesday.

One of the two, Coggs-Jones, a strong supporter of GAMP, said she did not need to attend the meetings to show her leadership on the issue. She said the program risked losing all the matching funds if it were cut much more.

The other, Supervisor Peggy West, said Wednesday that she had not heard of the cutback scenarios that Walker wanted. Personal commitments prevent her from attending 8 a.m. meetings, West said.

So, I guess nothing is out of the realm of possibility.

3 Comments:

At 4:05 PM, Anonymous said...

They didn't deny funding, Fraley you liar. They put the question over to get more info. Sheesh. What would you have to say if you didn't just make so much stuff up out of thin air?

 
At 4:11 PM, Dailytakes said...

Did they approve funding? Um, no. So they denied it. Hopefully for just a week. But in the interim, two Ethics Board members and the special prosecutor quit, throwing the case in chaos.

Sheesh.

 
At 5:20 PM, Anonymous said...

You know darn well there is more than 2 choices, approve or deny. They went with a third choiuce, hold the question over for approval or denial pending more info. Your post was flat out false.

 

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