Between Wisconsin Senate and Assembly Vote, Power Plant Sales Reappear
A big thank-you to xoff at UppityWisconsin for this find . Remember that power plant provision ? It wasn’t in the document passed by the Senate on Wednesday. But guess what! It was changed before the Assembly vote on Thursday to include it. Thursday, the fiscal bureau was forced to correct its memo describing the bill, after unearthing some more buried treasure. Seems there were a few things the original memo forgot to mention: There are two items in the LFB’s March 10 document that are not reflected in the March 9 document. 1. The March 10 document includes a provision of the substitute amendment on the Earned Income Tax Credit (page 3, #1). 2. The March 10 document includes a provision of the substitute amendment on the Sale and Contractual Operation of State-Owned Power Plants (page 20, #1) . Here are images of the table of contents: Wednesday’s version – PDF (This was the one I used for my analysis ): enlarge Thursday’s version – PDF (voted on by Assembly as amended): enlarge Here’s the language in the second version of the document: 1. SALE AND CONTRACTUAL OPERATION OF STATE-OWNED POWER PLANTS Governor: Allow the Department of Administration (DOA) to sell any state-owned heating, cooling, or power plant or contract with private entities for the operation of any such plant, with or without solicitation of bids, for any amount the Department determines to be in the best interest of the state. As a reminder, that power plant provision points directly to Koch Industries , who is already advertising for power plant managers. Someone just pulled a fast one in Wisconsin. A fast one that should be illegal for so many reasons I can’t count them all. But let’s just call it this: Fraud. When will the Attorney General investigate? In the meantime, Scott Walker makes the specious and disgusting claim that the only dirty tricksters are the heroic Wisconsin 14. He gives the term “sociopath” new meaning. Click here to view this media
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Between Wisconsin Senate and Assembly Vote, Power Plant Sales Reappear
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on March 11, 2011. Filed under