"Government Man" Hagedorn--Again

Middle of a story on proposed legislation shows--again--that Hagedorn is not 'conservative,' nor 'liberal.'

He's just a Government Man through and through.  To him, the Government is always right.

...In a case that started when the City of Waukesha tried to bring summer league baseball to Frame Park in 2017, a divided court found the city didn't violate the law by withholding a draft contract for two months after a citizens group requested it under the open records law.

More crucially, the court also held that if government turns over records voluntarily, after being sued but before a judge takes action, the requesters have not prevailed under the law and can no longer seek attorneys fees.

"Absent a judicially sanctioned change in the parties' legal relationship, attorney's fees are not recoverable under § 19.37(2)(a)," Justice Brian Hagedorn wrote for the majority.

Lueders called the ruling a "body blow to the state's traditions of open government." ...

WILL assisted in writing the legislation to obviate Government Man's stupidity.