At the time I criticized that excuse for being a misdirection. He had in fact been fired because he was a no show for committee meetings and votes.
It seems his story has changed just a bit. In the interview he states the following:
CT: Before you left the Democrats, they stripped you of your committee chairmanship over abortion issues?
BZ: Well yeah, it was because I didn't vote on a couple procedural motions that are supposed to be required voting -- back to that "you have to vote with us" deal. When I did that I understood fairly well that that could be the result, so I didn't go off stomping mad or anything. It was a very civilized transaction -- the speaker told me this is why and I'm taking your chairmanship and basically all I could say is OK because he had the power to do it.
Read more: http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/politiscope/madison-politiscope-q-a-rep-bob-ziegelbauer-remembers-a-more/article_a087e7cc-5a77-11e1-a905-0019bb2963f4.html?mode=story#ixzz1nnLZeYCB In fact the story has changed several times. In this version he claimed it was because of a vote that he "took".
Madison – Rep. Bob Ziegelbauer (D-Manitowoc) was replaced as chairman of the Assembly’s Committee on Ways and Means because of a vote he took on a state budget amendment, the nine-term lawmaker said Friday.
“It’s discipline, I was fired,” said Ziegelbauer, who frequently votes differently from the rest of his Democratic colleagues.
He said Sheridan told him the decision was made because of his vote on an amendment offered by abortion opponents during the budget debate. Ziegelbauer voted with those who wanted to overrule a decision by the body’s chairman to not consider the amendment.
The amendment from Rep. Dan LeMahieu (R-Cascade) would have prohibited state Medicaid funds from going to hospitals that perform second- and third-trimester abortions.
http://www.jsonline.com/newswatch/59758147.html?newsWatchDate=12-20-2011
Pants on fire?
But was it then or is it now?
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