Salon.com > Common Cause http://www.salon.com Thu, 23 May 2013 16:18:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Wisconsin GOPers sued over potential ALEC ties http://www.salon.com/2012/10/02/wisconsin_gopers_sued_over_potential_alec_ties/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/02/wisconsin_gopers_sued_over_potential_alec_ties/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:29:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13027877 Two watchdog groups have filed a lawsuit against five Wisconsin state lawmakers; it claims that the Republicans violated the state's public records law by failing to disclose private emails that may have tied them to the conservative advocacy group the American Legislative Exchange Council.

Common Cause and the Center for Media and Democracy sued five lawmakers, Reps. Tyler August, Dan Knodl, Tom Larson, Pat Strachota and Jeremy Thiesfeldt, in county circuit court over their failure to provide private emails after a public records request by CMD.

From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:

"An email included in the court filing shows Thiesfeldt is involved with ALEC but tries to keep it out of his state email account.

'Please send ALL ALEC material to the Representative's PERSONAL e-mail . . . from now on,' says a June email to ALEC sent from Thiesfeldt's state account. 'Please do not send his state account (@legis.wi.gov) any more updates. He will keep up through his personal account.'"

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