State Supreme Court Elect Annette Ziegler is looking to bury some more skeletons...
Wispolitics.com posted a copy of a petition by Ziegler's legal representation that asks her potential peers to bar the State Ethics Board from looking into her somewhat shady dealings in cases involving West Bend Savings Bank, a company for which her husband is a member of the Board of Directors.
The petition tries to point out that the actual sums involved in each instance are minor, as well as the compensation that her husband is given for serving on the Board. Beyond that, there is also the claim that neither Ziegler nor any other member of her family benefitted financially from the decisions. Understandable as that may be, the Ethics Board rules on moral substance, and Ziegler's decision not to recuse herself from these cases reeks of flawed judgement.
"Questionable" would be a soft description of this action, as she seems to have the need to hide herself from moral scrutiny while the Judicial Commission investigates the techinical and tangible aspects of her actions.
Whether or not she will be allowed to actually assume the seat that she won (by outbidding her opponent an estimated $5.25 mil to $750k thanks to WMC and other 3rd parties) remains to be seen.
As Ziegler still cannot seem to grasp the idea that she should be just as vulnerable as anyone else to investigation of wrong-doing, there is a definite flaw inherent in the Justice-Elect. How on Earth could anyone have any faith or trust in a lawmaker who would work so hard so keep the laws from applying to herself?
Wispolitics.com posted a copy of a petition by Ziegler's legal representation that asks her potential peers to bar the State Ethics Board from looking into her somewhat shady dealings in cases involving West Bend Savings Bank, a company for which her husband is a member of the Board of Directors.
The petition tries to point out that the actual sums involved in each instance are minor, as well as the compensation that her husband is given for serving on the Board. Beyond that, there is also the claim that neither Ziegler nor any other member of her family benefitted financially from the decisions. Understandable as that may be, the Ethics Board rules on moral substance, and Ziegler's decision not to recuse herself from these cases reeks of flawed judgement.
"Questionable" would be a soft description of this action, as she seems to have the need to hide herself from moral scrutiny while the Judicial Commission investigates the techinical and tangible aspects of her actions.
Whether or not she will be allowed to actually assume the seat that she won (by outbidding her opponent an estimated $5.25 mil to $750k thanks to WMC and other 3rd parties) remains to be seen.
As Ziegler still cannot seem to grasp the idea that she should be just as vulnerable as anyone else to investigation of wrong-doing, there is a definite flaw inherent in the Justice-Elect. How on Earth could anyone have any faith or trust in a lawmaker who would work so hard so keep the laws from applying to herself?
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