MADISON, WI (WTAQ) – The new chairman of the state Government Accountability Board said it’s “just not true” that board staffers went behind the panel’s back to look into alleged illegal activity involving GOP recall campaigns.
Retired Dane County Circuit Judge Gerald Nichol responded to comments made by Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos in a TV report last week.
Vos said GAB staffers acted without knowledge of their board members, in the agency’s long-ended probe.
The investigation looked into allegations that Governor Scott Walker and other GOP recall candidates illegally coordinated campaign finance and other activities in the special elections in 2011 and ’12.
In a letter to Vos released Monday, Nichol said the Accountability Board’s staffers took no action with the board’s “full knowledge and prior approval.”
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
