WATCH – During the Assembly Budget debate Tuesday, Democrats tried to claim Republicans were gutting public education – even though the budget increases school funding by $3.3 billion. Not even all Democrats bought it. In the end, four Democrats voted with Republicans for the budget. Read More Assembly Passes Budget With Historic Education Funding Increase
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Gov. Evers’ Sets Off Constitutional Showdown During State Of The State
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Gov. Evers initiated a constitutional showdown with the state legislature Wednesday night by announcing his decision to take charge of the redistricting process via executive fiat. Read More Gov. Evers’ Sets Off Constitutional Showdown During State Of The State
MacIver News Minute: Lawmaker Suggests Skirting Labor Reform Law
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What labor laws? State Rep. Gordon Hintz, Assembly Minority Leader and member of the Wisconsin Center board, doesn’t think much of labor reform laws passed in Wisconsin, one of which bars so-called “labor peace agreements.” In fact he suggested the board pursue such an agreement and opposed the hiring of a non-union security firm at a recent meeting. Read More MacIver News Minute: Lawmaker Suggests Skirting Labor Reform Law
Republican-Led Assembly Passes $83.6 Billion Budget, Dems Call It ‘Crumbs’
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By M.D. Kittle and Ola Lisowski – When is an $81.7 billion biennial budget “table scraps?” Crumbs? In the bizarro world of legislative liberals, of course. The Republican-controlled Assembly on a party-line vote Tuesday passed a budget (all-funds) that is 7 percent bigger than the 2017-19 budget, set to end Sunday. The bill now heads to the Senate floor on Wednesday for debate and a vote, and then, should it pass, to Gov. Tony Evers. The Democrat has yet to say whether he’ll partially veto the bill, or strike the entire document. Read More Republican-Led Assembly Passes $83.6 Billion Budget, Dems Call It ‘Crumbs’
Dem Leader Hintz Hints At Breaking The Law
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By M.D. Kittle – It’s long been clear that Big Labor-backed Democrats despise Wisconsin’s worker freedom laws. Now it appears a top Democrat lawmaker has no compunction about breaking state law. Read More Dem Leader Hintz Hints At Breaking The Law