Last month on a party-line vote, the Senate voted not to confirm Haas, in large part because of his involvement in Wisconsin’s unconstitutional “John Doe II” investigation into dozens of conservative organizations and Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign.
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In a surprising move – in a government abuse saga with plenty of twists and turns – the Democrat who chairs the bipartisan state Ethics Commission on Thursday called for Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm’s impeachment as he likened Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald to Joseph McCarthy.
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Two of the three Republicans voted against the Democrat-led motion, warning that openly bucking the Legislature’s will is a recipe for disaster.
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As the state Senate prepares to vote on whether to fire him, embattled Ethics Commission interim administrator Brian Bell is responding to one senator’s pointed questions.
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Bell and his supporters are attempting to make the case that the Ethics administrator is not part of the GAB John Doe gang. In short, they are suggesting that Bell is not Michael Haas.
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Haas has claimed he had little to do with the John Doe investigation, and he got plenty of cover Monday in another apologist editorial by the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Members of the Ethics and Elections commissions, the agencies that replaced the disgraced state Government Accountability Board, have doubled down on their defense of their directors.
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Jordahl said she is “disgusted with the alleged conservative” appointees of the state Ethics and Elections commissions who have come to the defense of agents who have clearly defied court and John Doe orders.
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Republican lawmakers, sources say, have lost any remaining faith they had in the administrators, particularly Haas, who was a key player in the highly partisan John Doe investigation.
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Despite the fact that the material involved electronic communications seized by John Doe investigators, Falk suggested that Republicans labeled the folders.
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