WI: GOP legislative leaders retain lawyers in CD map challenge, climate change lawsuit
GOP legislative leaders in recent months have signed new contracts retaining lawyers in a lawsuit seeking to overturn Wisconsin’s congressional map, plus one seeking to strike down laws a group of young plaintiffs believe worsen climate change.
A third contract WisPolitics obtained through a standing open records request continues to retain Madison firm Eimer Stahl for “all current and future matters in which you wish to use our services.” The contract calls for paying attorneys the “discounted” rate of $650 an hour for their work.
Senate Minority Leader Dianne Hesselbein, D-Middleton, and Assembly Minority Leader Greta Neubauer, D-Racine, charged Republicans with wasting more than $26 million in taxpayer dollars on lawyers since 2017.
They said with a 40-hour work week, taxpayers would pay $26,000 per week for lawyers at Eimer Stahl, calling it “a slap in the face to every hardworking Wisconsinite and indefensibly wastes taxpayer money.”
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