Kedzie supports new Assembly mining bill
ELKHORN — Sen. Neal Kedzie (R-Elkhorn), chairman of the now disbanded Senate Select Committee on Mining Jobs, has thrown his support to the new Assembly's version of the mining bill put forth late this week, saying it was the only way to get the bill passed before lawmakers adjourn in mid-March, according to a news report by the Hudson Star-Observer.
Kedzie had said he was willing to look at changes to the bill passed by the Republican-controlled Assembly last month, and speak with Senate Democrats and the Bad River Chippewa, whose reservation is located downriver of the proposed Gogebic mine in Ashland and Iron counties.
Kedzie's committee cancelled a panel that would have held today in Platteville.
Instead the state Legislature's Joint Finance Committee is holding a public hearing this morning at the Capitol on the Assembly's version of the bill.
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald called the bill an effort to get some kind of mining bill passed.
But at least one Senate Democrat has to support the bill, and none did in the Assembly.
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Feb 17, 2012 at 1:58 p.m.
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"...has thrown his support to the new Assembly's version of the mining bill...saying it was the only way to get the bill passed before lawmakers adjourn in mid-March."
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Evidently, the time element is more important than the quality of legislation when it comes to passing the mining bill. Wasn't Neil pontificating just the other day about how important it was to him that Legislators get the legislation "right" in their effort to protect the interests of the residents surrounding the mine? Typical political BS.
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