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Article: NO PLASMA TVS FOR LAWMAKERS SENATORS DISPUTE DETAILS.(FRONT)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- June 30, 2005
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Byline: Todd Richmond Associated Press
A Republican senator says she's blowing the whistle on Senate leaders for trying to hang plasma TVs in all 33 senators' offices as part of a C-SPAN-style legislative cable network.
But legislative leaders say Sen. Cathy Stepp, R-Sturtevant, is exaggerating and she was never privy to contract negotiations with the WisconsinEye network.
Todd Allbaugh, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center, said negotiations focused on whether WisconsinEye should place what he called "monitors" in senators' offices and public areas around the Capitol, but it was only an idea and would have ...