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No offense Ben, but I think Scott has better things to do than talk to every OC'er that wants to call and chat about something he already had his staff ask for a legal opinion on. The county executive is bound by the law. If his staff checked for a legal opinion from their legal advisors what else do you want them to do? They can't change the law. If its a 'grey area' then the courts need to decide.
Considering their are 953,000+ residents of Milwaukee County I just don't think the County Exec can be expected to personally speak to anyone who wants to call and chat. His staff must handle that kind of thing for him.
Given the number of people in the county, that is the reason we have county board representatives who represent a MUCH smaller group of constituents and can devote much more time to you and your questions etc.
1 county exec per 953,000
19 county board supervisors = 1 supervisor per 50,100 ppl.
We know gun laws in wisconsin are an ambiguous mess. We either need legislators to repeal them, or courts to toss them out as unconstitutional. Scott walker is neither a legislator nor a judge. He cannot make law. But as I said before, if the county board introduces legislation to repeal the park firearm ban I'm confident Scott Walker would sign it.
If you want him out there cheerleading for it... Well... While I do believe that most of the people in this state DO support our right to OC, I DON'T think they are all very motivated to do anything about it as WE are. Hell with all the members we have here, many weren't even willing to toss a couple bucks in the pot for radio ads.
If you want a county executive who's running for governor to make open carry the champion issue of his campaign, we'd BETTER be able to rally enough support behind him to make it a winning issue for him. If not, then lets just be happy that we have a governor who WILL sign any pro-gun legislation that makes it to his desk! DOYLE WON'T.
edit: and I mean no disrespect when I say Scott Walker doesn't have time to talk to you. I have done business with the county executive's office on a PET PROJECT of Walkers back in 2003-4 and I didn't even speak or meet with him until the day of the news conference. I dealt with staffers every step of the way. I also did business with Mayor Norquist and same thing. I dealt with his staffers 95% of the time until it came time to realease the software we were creating, then I finally met him. (and if I do say Mayor Norquist had way hotter staffers... I digress)