WATCH – Republicans on JFC explain why expanding Medicaid in Wisconsin is a bad idea that could lead to lower healthcare access. Read More Budget Blog: JFC Removes Medicaid Expansion
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Erpenbach Makes Wisconsin Taxpayers Sick
Guest Perspective by James Wigderson – The Medicaid expansion has resurfaced, but it’s still bad for Wisconsin taxpayers. New numbers from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau describe how much the expansion will set back the federal government – and people who pay federal income taxes. Read More Erpenbach Makes Wisconsin Taxpayers Sick
Fitz Blames MacIver Lawsuit for #Openrecordsgate
MacIver News – Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald cited the MacIver Institute’s lawsuit again Senator Jon Erpenbach on Tuesday as the motivation behind an attempt to gut Wisconsin’s open records law in the budget. Read More Fitz Blames MacIver Lawsuit for #Openrecordsgate
Teacher that Cried Poverty Over Act 10 Still Lives in $550K Home
An in-depth analysis of more than 1,500 emails sent to Sen. Jon Erpenbach’s (D-Middleton) office during the 2011 protests shows that many government workers not only used government resources during normal business hours to lobby the senator on Act 10, but they also made outlandish claims that publicly available data shows never materialized. Read More Teacher that Cried Poverty Over Act 10 Still Lives in $550K Home
Taxpayer Resources Appear to Have Been Widely Used to Lobby Erpenbach on Act 10
MacIver Investigations – After a failed legal battle with the John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy, Sen. Jon Erpenbach (D-Middleton) turned over 1,571 separate emails containing over 2,100 total pages from public employees across the state and country who contacted him about Act 10. Read More Taxpayer Resources Appear to Have Been Widely Used to Lobby Erpenbach on Act 10