G.A.B.(WI) dismisses budget repair bill complaints

Source: wkow.com




G.A.B. dismisses budget repair bill complaints
Posted: May 18, 2011 10:57 AM CDT


MADISON (WKOW) -- The Government Accountability Board has unanimously thrown out hundreds of ethics complaints filed against lawmakers in the wake of the controversy over Gov. Walker's budget repair bill.

"Over the course of several weeks in February and March, the G.A.B. received hundreds of telephone calls and email messages complaining about tactics used by officials from both political parties in connection with events surrounding Governor Walker's budget repair bill," said Kevin Kennedy, director and general counsel. "The complainants asked the Board to take action to investigate and penalize elected officials for perceived unethical conduct."

The Board has reviewed each of the complaints, and after serious consideration the Board voted to dismiss all of them.

In determining whether an investigation was warranted, the Board accepted the allegations of facts contained in the complaints as true. Even after viewing the complaints in this light, the Board dismissed each of them due to lack of reasonable suspicion that a violation of any law administered by the Government Accountability Board has occurred.

The complaints covered six general categories:...............

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The one I am most perturbed at is the one that used taxpayer money to pay for state police to after the missing 14 Dems.




See the full memo at:

http://uppitywis.org/sites/default/files/g_a_b_memo_on_budget_repair_bill_complaints_05_18_14837.pdf

in last November's election. I wonder how much of their money was collected from private donors to make this deal go through... I wonder how much testing on this software was done and why no smaller elections were used to test it before the big election in Wisconsin last Fall.... I wonder how independent they are? I have questions or concerns about this Govt. body of workers...

the GAB is a tool of the RW in Wisconsin

Back when the news about the David Koch and Walker conversation broke I called to inquire about how to file a complaint at GAB. The person I talked to at GAB laughed at me and sent me to an extension that rang and rang and rang. I filed three written complaint about varies things that have happened since February and all have been dismissed. As far as I am concerned the GAB is nothing more than a bunch of political hacks. A bull shite department staffed by cronies!

I'll have to try it and see if they are still behaving that way.