The Attorney General of Wisconsin, Dough-Boy Kaul, will face legal action for his decision to install a Bloomberg operative on his staff in Madison.
Here's the very short summary:
The State Energy & Environmental Impact Center at NYU provides “special assistant” staffers in state attorneys general offices. Since taxpayer funds pay the special assistant’s travel expenses, bar dues and court fees, the judge ruled that the plaintiffs have a legally protected interest in challenging the contract with NYU.The suit was brought in Calumet County.
(Interesting side-note: Forbes Magazine's "2025 Billionaire List" places Bloomberg as the 14th wealthiest person in the world, with a net worth estimated at $105 billion. His financial news organization, Bloomberg News, also publishes a "Billionaire's Index" of what it calls "a daily ranking of the world's richest people." Mike Bloomberg's name is conspicuously absent from that list.
They must have forgotten about him, right?)
Anyhow:
... The assistant attorney [provided "free" by Bloomberg], the lawsuit explains, exercises the same authority exercised by any other assistant attorneys general at the Wisconsin DOJ. The unit in which the special assistant works is involved in litigation, permitting and regulatory enforcement that can result in legal fees and fines against dairy farmers and other industries. ...
Kaul is an intellectual lightweight or he would have foreseen the lawsuit (which he will lose) and told Mike Bloomberg to put his "assistant" where the sun never shines.
Oh, well. State taxpayers will pay the expenses. See how nice it is to be a Democrat?
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