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ZIEN, GUNDERSON SUED BY STATE AG
Friday, September 2nd, 2005 -- 3:04 pm
Posted by Riley Hebert-News Director
Wisconsin's attorney general sued two Republican lawmakers Thursday, accusing them of hiding from the public the draft of a bill that would allow Wisconsin residents to carry concealed weapons.
The lawsuit accuses Senator David Zien and Representative Scott Gunderson of providing a copy of the bill to a lobbyist for the National Rifle Association ... while they were refusing a public records request from the state Department of Justice for the draft.
Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager asked the court to order the lawmakers to turn over the draft.
But Zien, of Eau Claire, called the lawsuit "ludicrous and obscene." He and Gunderson, who is from Waterford, plan to introduce the bill sometime this fall. He says the bill will be made public when it's introduced. He acknowledged sharing drafts with an N-R-A lobbyist and two outside lawyers but says he sees nothing wrong with it.
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