Roads are crumbling, yet Wisconsin Taxpayers Just Got Stuck Paying $1.6 Million for Abortion Fight.

[Snarkoleptic]

Priorities out of whack under republiclown Gov. Scott Walker.

Wisconsin Taxpayers Just Got Stuck Paying $1.6 Million for the State's Abortion Fight.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/wisconsin-taxpayers-just-got-stuck-million-legal-tab-abortion-law-case

The Wisconsin Department of Justice agreed Thursday to pay $1.6 million in attorney fees and other legal costs to Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and several other plaintiffs who successfully challenged one of the state's abortion laws.

The case challenged the requirement that abortion providers in Wisconsin have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinic. In March 2015, a district court judge ruled that the law was unconstitutional. The state of Wisconsin twice appealed the case, driving up legal costs for the plaintiffs. In both appeals, the state lost: The circuit court agreed with the initial court's decision, as did the US Supreme Court this June, rejecting the case the day after it overturned a similar admitting-privileges provision in Texas. Now Wisconsin taxpayers will have to foot the bill for the legal costs from the appeals.

"This settlement should send a message to politicians that laws that are designed to obstruct a woman's access to an abortion are not only unconstitutional, but they are a misuse of taxpayer resources," said Jennifer Dalven, director of the reproductive freedom project at the ACLU, in an emailed statement to Mother Jones.

While roads crumble and infrastructure fails-
http://onmilwaukee.com/buzz/articles/walkerroadbudget.html

What isn't deteriorating in Wisconsin? You can't argue our universities have improved. You certainly can't argue our roads have either, yet both are critical to our state. Both are suffering great harm. On top of it, a new report says jobs numbers are still lagging the nation.

Now comes word that Gov. Scott Walker's transportation secretary thinks the consequence of his boss' policies is the "continued deterioration" of 90 percent of our state's roads. That's a rather stunning statement. Let me repeat it.

The governor's own transportation secretary thinks 90 percent of our roads will "continue" to deteriorate – this despite the excessive borrowing in the budget for roads the last time. The Wisconsin State Journal broke the story, with the lede, "Wisconsin Transportation Secretary Mark Gottlieb said his forthcoming budget request to Gov. Scott Walker will not propose major tax or fee increases – a move Gottlieb acknowledged would delay road expansion work and upkeep of all but the state's most-traveled highways."

[riversedge]

1. I just posted the Cap Times article and tweet from Chris Taylor in

LBN. Just saw yours. It is disgusting how Walker and repugs waste tax money to feed their egos!!


http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141568174

[Snarkoleptic]

3. Yeah, what his deal? Campaigning for 2020 already?

I was near 26th and Loomis, saw a pickup truck lose it's wheel, which just kept rolling along.
The road was not in great shape. Maybe folks will wake up soon.
Natch, that Koch & ABC supply money can whitewash lots of misdeeds.

[riversedge]

5. Oh, Walker still does have big plans for himself. You should see the rural roads

up nort. Nothing but patches on patches.

[riversedge]

2. REC.

[rurallib]

4. Nothing pisses off voters more than shitty roads

especially when they see fat cats get tax breaks or pay no taxes; when they see a new road going in for a Walmart at taxpayers expense or see officials just plain fucking up what should be simple decisions. It will come back to haunt them.

The question is will Dems stick it to them on this. I am sure Feingold will

[CanonRay]

6. When I was a kid in Illinois

We were always amazed at how good the Wisconsin roads were