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| Public Service Commission Chairwoman Ellen Nowak, right, and Nowak's adviser Bob Seitz are blocked from returning to work at the PSC on Thursday. (Photo: Molly Beck / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) |
MADISON - One of the 82 appointees who
lost their positions last week amid a ferocious court battle between
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican lawmakers tried to return to
work Thursday morning and was blocked at the elevators.
Ellen
Nowak, the Public Service Commission chairwoman appointed by former
Gov. Scott Walker, was stopped by a building security guard and
prevented from going to the commission's office in a state building in
Madison.
Nowak and her adviser, Bob Seitz, told
the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel they believed they could return to their
jobs after a Wednesday Appeals Court ruling reinstated some of the laws
previously blocked by a lower court ruling that declared unlawful
a December legislative session during which Nowak was appointed to the
commission.
But a commission employee told them Gov. Tony Evers' attorneys' interpretation of that ruling says otherwise.
Later Thursday, Evers reappointed most of the people who had been
confirmed in December and lost their appointments on Friday. Nowak was
among the 15 Walker appointees who were not nominated by Evers
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