Doyle goes off on political bills approved recently

Onalaska rep. not happy with the
direction Wisconsin government is headed

It’s been a rough week for clean government. 

At least that’s how democrats in the Wisconsin legislature are seeing things, after a trio of controversial bills involving the political process were approved by the assembly along party lines. 

A move that’s taking the state ever further from its roots in clean government, says Onalaska state rep. Steve Doyle. 

“We’ve got the blowing up of the Government Accountability Board,” Doyle said. “We’ve got the ‘all takers welcome’ on the campaign finance reform where the caps come off of all the donations including the secret ones. We’ve got the elimination of John Doe probes or, what we refer to as, ‘the corrupt politician protection act.’”

Doyle says one of his biggest concerns with dismantling of the Government Accountability Board is that the action has the potential to throw next fall’s presidential election into turmoil.

All of the bills passed on party line votes over the last couple of days. It’s not clear whether the measures will have the votes to also pass in the state senate.