After trying to hide email communications between Republican legislators and the legal staff at Michael Best & Friedrich and others, the emails are finally released and this PDF (7MB/78 pages) has been scanned with OCR to make it more searchable and thus showing that there were gerrymandering techniques used in the partisan redistricting process.
Using especially tough language, a three-judge panel in Milwaukee on Thursday ordered Republican lawmakers to release a collection of emails and documents related to redistricting legislation, despite vigorous attempts by GOP leadership to keep the records secret.
In the order, the panel chastised Republican lawmakers for trying “to cloak the private machinations of Wisconsin’s Republican legislators in the shroud of attorney-client privilege.”
“What could have — indeed should have — been accomplished publicly instead took place in private, in an all but shameful attempt to hide the redistricting process from public scrutiny,” read the order, written by U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller.
Neither Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, nor Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, had any immediate comment on the ruling.
The Fitzgerald Brothers had no comment on this latest evidence of overstepping and abuse of power by the Fitzwalkerstan Cult.
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