Kramer and Vukmir Call for Special Session on Minimum Markup

YES WE CAN!

Consequently, Representatives Bill Kramer (R-Waukesha) and Leah Vukmir (R-Wauwatosa) have joined a growing chorus seeking relief from increasingly high prices and urge Governor Jim Doyle to call the Legislature into special session for a vote on repeal of Wisconsin’s outmoded minimum markup law.

1. Wouldn’t it have been more cost effective for them to have brought this up during regular session?  If it’s a good idea now it was most certainly a good idea then.

   This stunt hardly rises to the level of an emergency session.

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 23, 2008 at 0405 hrs




2. Why don’t they ask Speaker Huebsch to call an Extraordinary Session, which is another avenue capable of getting the bill taken up over the summer?  Because he doesn’t support the repeal effort!  This is all about pinning the tail on the donkey (the Democratic Governor) and not about actually getting something done.

   Yes, there was an Assembly Bill introduced during the regular session to repeal the minimum mark up law but it never even got a public hearing.  That’s because the Republican leadership in the Assembly supports the current law which guarantees a percentage profit per gallon to gas station owners.

   Think about how much momentum the repeal movement would have had if the Republican Assembly had passed the bill.  Then the Democratic Governor (who supports the repeal) and the Speaker of the Assembly would have been able to put pressure on the Democrats who run the Senate to take the bill up!  And Republicans would have been in a position to make repeal of the law a campaign issue.

   Alas, this wasn’t to be because the Republican majority in the Assembly supports the current law!

   So now we see a couple Republican Assembly members attempting a “hail Mary” long after the session is over.

   Imagine what could have happened if party hacks like Brian Fraley had any influence in the Assembly Republican Caucus.  A real lost opportunity, and another indication of Fraley’s actual influence in the process.  He would have difficulty organizing a two-care funeral procession.

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 23, 2008 at 0551 hrs




3. 1. Cool. But where were they two years ago?
   2. Doyle (for a change) is not the obstructionist here…it’s the
     Rhinos.

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4. I guess that means you think Glenn Grothman is a RINO?  Opposition to the repeal of minimum markup is all over the political map.  Perhaps you should think before you make a wildly inaccurate generalization.

   Posted by Recess Supervisor on July 23, 2008 at 1230 hrs