Thursday, March 29, 2012

Is Walker Afraid Of The Voting Woman?

I found the following email in my inbox this evening. It's a laundry list of bills that Walker will be signing into law on Monday:
From: "Davis, Andrew - GOV"
Date: March 28, 2012 1:44:58 PM CDT
To: "Davis, Andrew - GOV"
Subject: April 2 - Gov To Sign Legislation

Good afternoon,

On Monday, April 2nd the Governor will be signing the legislation listed below into law in the Governor’s Conference Room here at the Capitol.

EVENT: BILL SIGNING CEREMONY

LOCATION: 115 East, State Capitol
Governor’s Conference Room

TIME: Monday, April 2nd
3:30PM – 5:00PM

Please RSVP to this email by COB tomorrow, Friday March 30th if you are able to participate in the bill signing. Please include the names of the individuals and their organizations, who wish to participate in the bill signing(s) and the specific pieces of legislation they would like to participate for.

**Because we are signing multiple pieces of legislation, we will need to keep attendees to a few individuals per organization and/or stakeholder and will absolutely need RSVP’s by Friday to ensure we provide enough pens to sign the legislation to all who are attending.

Assembly Bill 55 Vehicle failure to yield violations
Assembly Bill 56 Retail theft, proof of ownership for flea market sales, and providing penalties
Assembly Bill 59 Semiannual meetings of small winery cooperative wholesalers
Assembly Bill 144 Creating a commission on financial aid consolidation JLC
Assembly Bill 176 Minimum harvesting requirements for commercial fishing in the Great Lakes
Assembly Bill 228 Exemptions from securities registration requirements
Assembly Bill 290 The manufacture of wine and fermented malt beverages
Assembly Bill 377 Taking fish with a crossbow
Senate Bill 502 Case Planning for child place in out of home care (PIP)
Senate Bill 475 Audits and Reports of State Banks
Senate Bill 409 Various Changes to the Workers Compensation Law
Senate Bill 341 Open Doors on authorized emergency vehicles
Senate Bill 476 Changing the date of fire prevention week
Senate Bill 314 Collection of money owed for failure to pay for gasoline or diesel fuel and
obtaining information with person identifiers from DOT
Senate Bill 370 Regulating certain substitutes for ozone depleting refrigerants
Senate Bill 402 Discharge of water pollution for research
Senate Bill 487 Third Party Liability
Senate Bill 489 Barbering and Cosmetology
Senate Bill 297 Eliminates ambulatory surgical center assessment
Senate Bill 474 Asset Verification
Senate Bill 522 Use of tuberculocidal in barbering establishment
Senate Bill 274 Regulating sales of plastic bulk merchandise containers to scrap plastic
dealers and providing penalties
Senate Bill 517 Licensing of food processing plants
Senate Bill 518 Gasoline Vapor Recovery Requirements
Senate Bill 185 Regulating text messages as telephone solicitations for purposes of the no call list
Senate Bill 219 Various changes to the Unemployment Insurance Law
Senate Bill 388 Duties of Ski Area Operators
Senate Bill 395 Homemade wine and beer
Senate Bill 407 Zinc Air Button Cell Batteries
Senate Bill 426 Intentional W-2 Violations
Senate Bill 539 Information related to condominiums that must be furnished with real estate
condition reports
Senate Bill 308 Deposit placement programs of public depositories
Senate Bill 356 The authority of credit unions to make donations and grants
Senate Bill 416 Adopting amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code Article 9, relating
to secured transactions, recommended by the National Conference of
Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
Senate Bill 537 Aquaculture
Senate Bill 354 ATV and UTV Registration


Andrew Davis | Office of Governor Scott Walker
Director of External Communications
(o) 608-267.3839 | (e) andrew.davis@wisconsin.gov
Most of it seems fairly innocuous, but titles of bills are often misleading when it comes from Republicans.

But there are some bills that stand out due to their absence. I'm referring to Wisconsin's versions of the War on Women bills.

Maybe he's not so dumb after all. He knows that signing the bills would only stir up the anger in many Wisconsinites, both women and men, and cost his side dearly in the upcoming elections.

Then the question is: If Walker knows that they are so widely unpopular and could cost them elections, why would he sign them in the first place? Maybe he's not so smart after all.

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