Legislators worked with Gogebic Taconite on mining bill (details of Repuke drafted WI mining bill)

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http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/legislators-worked-with-gogebic-taconite-on-mining-bill-593fk2n-135902053.html

Who wrote the Assembly's mining bill?

That's what many people wanted to know after a public hearing last Wednesday at State Fair Park when Republicans declined to provide details on who authored the legislation and whom they relied on for help.

Now, details are emerging:

The bill was largely written by five Republicans and their staffs who huddled for months with different parties, including the business lobby Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce and representatives of iron ore mining company Gogebic Taconite, which wants to construct a mine in northern Wisconsin.

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3. sorry about this!!! n/t

[DCKit]

4. My bad.

Yours is in LBN, the other in General Discussion.

Not possible for you to have seen that when posting.

[midnight]

2. The damage this mining project will create is more than the

jobs it creates for the state... It was discussed over the summer that this is a speciality area and the mining companies have their own specialists that travel with them, and so the jobs that will be created will be low wage people who will poor their coffee, and service jobs like that... Another Walker train wreck....