Milwaukee Reporter Explains Anti-Hillary Editorial: Our Paper Champions Open Gov’t

Milwaukee Reporter Explains Anti-Hillary Editorial: Our Newspaper Champions Open Government (The Washington Free Beacon)

After being blasted by the editorial board of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, reporter Patrick Marley defended his paper’s criticism of Hillary Clinton’s transparency record on Thursday.

MSNBC host José Díaz-Balart asked Marley, who did not take part in the editorial, about the critique ahead of the Wisconsin presidential primaries.

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“With writing the editorials, obviously, but our paper has always taken a strong stance from its editorial page on open government. It’s been a very big deal, particularly here in Wisconsin,” Marley said. “There was an effort led by Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans in the legislature to eviscerate the state’s open records law. That really opened the eyes of a lot of people. There was a huge bipartisan response to that that stopped that.”