Bucher gets a slap from hometown paper

Waukesha County DA Paul Bucher, an attorney general wannabe, got some pretty sharp criticism in an editorial from his hometown Waukesha Freeman. The paper, for whom rabid right-wing talker Mark Belling is a columnist, is not part of the vast liberal media conspiracy.

The issue is open meetings, and whether a governmental body can break the open meetings law by discussing things by e-mail. Here's the editorial.

Open government is one of those Wisconsin traditions that registers well with voters, even if the recent state budget was written in secret. It's a bad issue to be on the wrong side of, and you can expect Bucher's opponents to make some hay with it.