By DON FOY | La Farge
A recent article in a local newspaper described Lee Nerison, a representative for the 96th Assembly District, as a “moderate Republican.”
Not at all. Nerison has voted with Speaker Robin Vos, who leads the charge for the Walker administration’s ALEC-inspired agenda, 437 out of 440 times. Vos is a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a national organization of legislators and corporate representatives that crafts corporate wish-list laws: things like softening environmental requirements to minimize the consequences of resource extraction, softening consumer protection laws to let corporations off the hook if their product proves injurious, and weakening regulatory agencies so that they can’t effectively do their jobs (as seen in the case of groups in Kewaunee County petitioning the EPA to investigate widespread water contamination there because the DNR is not up to the task).
ALEC is a privatized legislation mill that has its members who are elected officials push its efforts in state assemblies.
As far as I know, Lee Nerison is not a member of ALEC, but Robin Vos is, and if Lee votes with him 99.32 percent of the time, the effect is the same. And the effect is NOT a moderate Republican. The effect is another agent who wants to undermine the very government he is sworn to uphold and supplant it with a corporate fiefdom. Way to go, guys.
Pete Flesch is the Democratic candidate running against Lee Nerison. Vote for Pete Flesch on Nov. 4.