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security costs! The repug poodles of Gov Walker are always concerned about costs until it comes to this!!--this unnecessary and costly directive from the gov to keep it locked down!
Open Capitol to the people of Wisconsin
Cap Times editorial | No Comments Posted | Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 4:45 am
The Wisconsin State Capitol. LEAH L. JONES - State Journal archives More from this section
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State Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, is one of several area legislators who have regularly written to Department of Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch to raise the question of how long access to the state Capitol will be restricted.
Erpenbach’s notes to the DOA have been short and succinct. But they have raised a big issue.
Last week the senator wrote Huebsch with an inquiry about an incident where guards reportedly found themselves wrestling with whether children from Creative Learning Preschool needed to get out of their stroller to be wand-checked for weapons at the Capitol entrance. The kids ultimately got in without the hassle that teenagers and adults must go through.
But as Erpenbach rightly noted, “The unnecessary costs of security in the state Capitol continue to rise. The true cost of keeping people out of the building and blocking the doors to taxpayers cannot be calculated.”
And he summed up the sentiments of many when he wrote: “This is ridiculous and when will it end?”
We do not operate under the illusion that Huebsch makes many of his own decisions.
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