A GREAT read about open record laws in Wisconsin and who's in and who's out. I think J B didn't deserve that high a grade but The Times knows what they are talking about. The images are my choice.
You can read the whole thing but Recall Jim Holperin is what caught my eye.
Sunshine Week: The Lakeland Times' annual open records grades -
The Lakeland Times - Minocqua, WI:
"The Lowest of the Lowest (F-)"
State Sen. Jimmy "Hope" Holperin of Conover. Last year, we said we couldn't fail Sen. Jimmy Hope on open records, but we can yell it from the rooftops after his monstrous decision to routinely delete certain emails. Our story in last Tuesday's paper gives the details of this travesty but, in a nutshell, Mr. Holperin has given lawmakers, if they choose to do so, a perfectly legal way to effectively exempt themselves from the open records law.
All you have to do is get rid of any record you don't want anybody to see. While most lawmakers' records are open, the state's retention law doesn't require that they be kept for any length of time. Don't want to be seen? Hit delete.
In the last 50 years since that exemption was passed, it has been used only rarely. Mr, Holperin has changed the game. For the past month he has protected 50 years of special-interest greed by hiding in Illinois. Last year, he destroyed 50 years of open records progress by figuring out a way to hide his records.
State Sen. Jim Holperin - our 2011 worst of the worst in public office.
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