From Barbara Meyer
Arygle
In my estimation, our new Wisconsin State Legislature has given new meaning to the term "rushing things through."
When I learned of the first bill to come before the new state Assembly, I believed it was contrary to a Wisconsin citizen's right to seek retribution from a company for an injury resulting from negligence. So I sent an email message to my new state assemblyman urging him to vote no on AB1. Lo and behold, the next day I learned that the bill had already passed. Now I realize that several pieces of legislation have already passed.
How is that in the interest of the citizens of this state? Who is writing these bills? Is the governor perchance responsible for bringing these things to a vote? I thought we had a three-branch system of government: the legislative, the administrative, and the judicial. The legislature is not to be simply a blind vehicle through which the administrative branch accomplishes its wishes, without serious debate and consideration. And where does the judicial branch fit in relation to AB1? Cannot I, if my child is strangled by a poorly designed crib, bring a lawsuit against the company which made that crib? Or if my mother is injured because of the negligence of the nursing home staff where she resides, do I not have the right to bring a lawsuit about that? Don't we already have a judicial system which decides whether or not a case has merit and deserves to be heard? Why should the legislature make a law to prevent that from happening? Also, how does AB1 contribute to maintaining the kind of quality of product and service we in Wisconsin have come to expect? In whose interest are our legislators working?
Arygle
In my estimation, our new Wisconsin State Legislature has given new meaning to the term "rushing things through."
When I learned of the first bill to come before the new state Assembly, I believed it was contrary to a Wisconsin citizen's right to seek retribution from a company for an injury resulting from negligence. So I sent an email message to my new state assemblyman urging him to vote no on AB1. Lo and behold, the next day I learned that the bill had already passed. Now I realize that several pieces of legislation have already passed.
How is that in the interest of the citizens of this state? Who is writing these bills? Is the governor perchance responsible for bringing these things to a vote? I thought we had a three-branch system of government: the legislative, the administrative, and the judicial. The legislature is not to be simply a blind vehicle through which the administrative branch accomplishes its wishes, without serious debate and consideration. And where does the judicial branch fit in relation to AB1? Cannot I, if my child is strangled by a poorly designed crib, bring a lawsuit against the company which made that crib? Or if my mother is injured because of the negligence of the nursing home staff where she resides, do I not have the right to bring a lawsuit about that? Don't we already have a judicial system which decides whether or not a case has merit and deserves to be heard? Why should the legislature make a law to prevent that from happening? Also, how does AB1 contribute to maintaining the kind of quality of product and service we in Wisconsin have come to expect? In whose interest are our legislators working?
