HERE IS VIDEO OF PAYDAY LOAN LOBBYIST ERIN KRUEGER

POLITICS MAKES BEDFELLOWS DEPARTMENT

LOBBYIST DISCUSSES BENEFITS OF UNREGULATED PAYDAY LOAN INDUSTRY

ISSUE CLOSE TO ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S HEART

The woman, Shanna Wycoff, is listed as the manager of government affairs for Cincinnati-based Axcess Financial, which owns the payday lending chain Check 'n Go. She also lobbied on behalf of an industry group, Community Financial Services Association, last year before withdrawing Dec. 31.

 http://www.lacrossetribune.com/news/state-and-regional/wi/article_6ab4e2d4-0fbb-11df-8bb3-001cc4c03286.html

Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld.com

By Michael Horne

And The Milwaukee World Hound Dog Team

In the classic Hollywood version, the dashing Speaker of the Assembly wrongheadedly opposes legislation to improve conditions in the orphanage in his district.
But a determined young nurse (in a nurse uniform, wowza!) goes to the state capitol, registers as a lobbyist, and gives him a piece of her mind.
After a couple Tracy - Hepburn episodes, the Speaker realizes the errors of his ways, and supports the legislation providing industrial training for the orphans.
The orphans all get steady jobs in the town's expanding munitions industry, while the Speaker and the nurse fall in love and get married.


You don't have to change much for the current Madison version.


Except the legislation isn't about orphanages, it's about Payday Loansharking. The nurse isn't a nurse, but she is a lobbyist for the Payday Loan industry. She gives the speaker a piece of her mind, and a piece of something else -- but she does it before the vote.
The speaker changes his mind, the legislation passes, and the speaker may or may not continue to date the lobbyist.
And this is the situation we find ourselves in, thanks to Assembly Speaker Mike Sheridan, and his unnamed inamorata.
Yes, we have come to yet another tawdry pass in Wisconsin's politics.
The video segment is from the public domain Wisconsin Eye broadcast of September 3rd, 2009. Ms. Erin Krueger debates Rep. Gordon Hintz, who supports regulating this abusive industry.


mms://71.87.25.133/NMK/NMK_090903_REP_HINTZ.wmv


FUN FACT!
Sheridan's Assembly campaign website has this non-too timely observation about the speaker:

I enjoy spending my free time with my wife, Sarah, who is a social work 

lecturer at UW-Whitewater, and our three children ... 

It looks like the next "free time" for Sarah and Mike will be in Rock County Circuit Court on February 26th, 2010 where there will be a pre-trial conference for their upcoming divorce. 
Sheridan also owes $250.90 to the Eau Claire County Court for a 2009 speeding ticket there. He paid Rock County $186.00 for his speeding ticket there, also in 2009. 
On September 18th, 2009, Sarah Sheridan received $703.00 from Sheridan's campaign committee for "candidate travel Parade/Airline Ticket." On October 10th, 2009, Mike Sheridan filed for divorce. 


[Note: Ms. Krueger did not respond to Milwaukeeworld's query about whether she has a relationship with Rep. Sheridan while other lobbyists denied they had a relationship with him.]