[wisb] Off Topic
- From: "Bob Bucci" <rbucci@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'[Wisb]'" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:38:24 -0500
This is off topic, but it is important to correct an earlier, inaccurate
report allowed on the list:
Gov. Scott Walker on Monday shot down rumors that he was working on
legislation to take over struggling cities and schools.
The rumor was born this weekend when writer Rick Ungar posted a blog on
Forbes.com that claimed the governor was working on a bill that mirrored
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's emergency financial manager law.
The new law gives Snyder the power to appoint emergency managers who could
go into struggling cities and schools and fire elected officials, terminate
union contracts, seize and sell assets, and eliminate services. Already one
Michigan city, Benton Harbor, has fallen under the law.
But according to Chris Schrimpf, Walker's communication director, the rumor
is "100 percent untrue."
"Gov. Walker's administration is not considering any legislation similar to
what Ungar reports," he said.
The governor also denied the rumor in an interview on WTMJ AM interview
earlier Monday, saying it was "absolutely a bogus story."
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