April
2007
Ziegler: Ethics? I don’t need no steenking ethics!
In a ballsy move, Wisconsin state Supreme Court Justice-elect Annette Ziegler is arguing that since she’s been elected to the position of Supreme Court, and since the Court is a fully independent and empowered level of government, she should not have to answer to an ethics board.
This is an unprecedented level of chutzpah!
All public officials should be required to abide by ethical standards and just because Ziegler has been elected to the Supreme Court, shouldn’t mean she is exempt. She may want the public to believe that her ruling on cases where she had a conflict of interest should not matter, but any elected official, not just Ziegler, needs to understand that ethical behavior is tantamount and they must answer questions when posed by an ethics board. If they’re unwilling to answer questions from an ethics board, they should be removed from office.
Jim McGuigan
Jim McGuigan, Stupid Politicians, Watchdogging the Judiciary
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Listen, she won the election fair and square. Get over it. If the people of wisconsin thought that she had acted in an unethical manner, They would not have elected her. Besides if you are so bothered by ethics then you should take a look at the Doyle administratin. There is plenty of unethical behaviors going on there.
Hmmm … sounds like typical conservative rhetoric to me. It never matters when a Republican breaks laws or ethics. It doesn’t matter what the people think, whether or not the rules or codes of ethics where broken. If these things mattered, and what the people thought mattered, Bush would be out of office and the war in Iraq would be over.
Uhh huhhh. And the Thompson administration, the goodfellas who appointed Ziegler a judge in the first place, were paragons of ethics.
Nice to know that Biskupic will be off the map for at least a little while, dealing with Congressional questions. Democrats, union leaders and everyday joe voters are now free to breath that beautiful rust belt air of SE Wisconsin and enjoy the regressive wage growth of our burgeoning economy. Life is good.