jsonline:… state Rep. Tamara Grigsby said she and fellow Milwaukee Democrat state Sen. Lena Taylor were upset that testimony will end shortly after most people get off work. So the pair - both of whom are on the powerful, budget-writing committee - decided to oversee their own informal meeting … until 9 p.m. Grigsby said her staffer was told it would cost them $200 to rent the space for the three extra hours and that Taylor had agreed to pick up the tab.
Grigsby and Taylor said they decided to give Vos and his fellow committee leader, state Sen. Alberta Darling, a heads up … The next thing she heard was from State Fair officials, who said the room was no longer available. She accused Vos of having the contract modified so he could reserve it from 6 p.m. to midnight. "This is, in my opinion, unconscionable," Grigsby said … "They don't respond well to confrontation," Grigsby said of Republican legislative leaders. Vos … said Darling and he had already been working on a plan to reserve the space at State Fair until midnight in case the meeting ran long.
Right, that sounds totally believable? We’re adults now, been around the block, and can easily distinguish between absolute BS and the truth.
Taylor said she confronted Vos … Vos told her … that extending the hearing would turn it into a media circus. "I said, 'You're making it into a circus, ”Taylor said. "This isn't open government. This is not democracy. This is shameful."
Darling said there is some concern about things getting out of hand. "You saw what happened at the Capitol," said Darling, a River Hills Republican. "Luckily, those crowds didn't happen in Superior or Stevens Point." Democrats, Vos suggested, might invite endless testimony in hopes of starting a "citizen filibuster." Vos said he believes Democrats need to realize that they do not control the Legislature.
"The hearings are going to be done when we say they're done," Vos said.He really did say that.
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