http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/06/1399672/-The-battle-over-Scott-Walker-s-records-rages-on-and-gets-stranger
"The background: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker got himself into some very hot water recently when he released in his latest budget effort a plan to erase the famous Wisconsin Idea from the University of Wisconsin System's mission statement as part of an effort to separate the university system from state government in a way that would allow the state to, of course, cut its funding. This proposal to gut one of the best things Wisconsin ever did went poorly, and went even worse when Walker claimed it was all some sort of unintentional mix-up, oops, only to have documents uncovered that showed Walker's office was in fact perfectly aware of the changes. This was quickly followed by lawsuits demanding the release of administration documents related to the change, since Walker seems to have been caught in (yet another) huge lie about what his office was or wasn't doing. Walker says nothing doing, because those count as "deliberative" and he shouldn't have to release documents from his administration showing how members of his administration deliberated on the changes.
Got that? Fast forward to this weekend, when the Republican-controlled legislature's Joint Finance Committee:
abruptly introduced and passed new exemptions to the open records law — including a broad provision that would explicitly create an exception for "deliberative materials." Such an exception would make it impossible for the public to see how state, local and school officials made their decisions. [...]
The public reaction was swift, with groups on the left and right decrying the attempt to stifle the public's access to government records. By Saturday, Walker and legislative leaders announced they were abandoning the plan, while continuing to evade saying who pushed for the idea in the first place."
