A progressive watchdog group is taking the state’s largest business lobby to task for failing to disclose lobbying activity concerning the University of Wisconsin’s budget.
One Wisconsin Now filed a complaint Tuesday with the state Government Accountability Board alleging that Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce didn’t disclose lobbying activity a WMC official referred to in an Aug. 20 memo.
The memo, from WMC Vice President for Government Relations James Buchen, was in response to an article in Madison Magazine written by recently retired UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley that was critical of WMC’s support of uncomprisingly partisan Republican legislators.