Wisconsin, we're going Nowhere Fast...

The shocking lack of progress in Wisconsin has now become glaringly obvious. Anti-job legislation doesn’t even get a passing glance by Republican voters anymore. Hey, it’s just the way it is. 

1. “Strip out All of the Milwaukee things!” Republicans have been trashing Milwaukee for decades, so guess what? Despite being one of the top economic engines statewide…

After credit downgrade, Vos smells blood in the water, and threatens to strip Milwaukee provisions from government funding bill…

WPR: “If we do not get a deal this week, I think we should strip out all of the Milwaukee things,” Vos told reporters Wednesday. “And we will just focus on the balance of the bill, which is repealing the personal property tax and making sure that every community around the state is not held hostage by Milwaukee’s problems.”

So why aren’t Milwaukee’s problems the state’s problem? After Milwaukee’s credit rating was downgraded due to inadequate funding by Republican over the last decade, now it’s Gov. Evers responsibility? 

If an agreement is not reached, Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu said the Senate would pursue a shared revenue bill that does not include a sales tax option for Milwaukee. “The governor has a chance to save Wisconsin’s largest city and most populous county from bankruptcy. We hope he takes it.”

2. WI Republicans Legislate denounce progress by protecting gas guzzling machines and power equipment. TMJ4:

The Environmental group Wisconsin Conservation Voters told lawmakers last month that the measure “is at best a solution in search of a problem” given that no community in Wisconsin or the state itself is attempting to ban any type of fuel.

3. Public Health is Tyranny: This is an issue? WI Republicans decided meningitis isn’t a real danger after all, forget about protecting the children. But drag shows…yup, just more WOKE tyranny:

This is what we get for trying to stop the COVID pandemic…

The state Assembly and state Senate voted to bar Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ administration from implementing a new rule that would have required seventh graders to get vaccinated against meningitis and mandated parents to show proof their children were infected with chickenpox before obtaining a waiver from the state’s chickenpox vaccination requirement…voted in March to block the rule after a GOP members questioned the decision-making of state health officials, largely because they disagreed with their orders to shutter businesses in the weeks after Evers declared a health emergency over COVID-19 and to wear masks during the most threatening periods of the coronavirus pandemic.

4. Forget Job Creation, Republicans Punish UW System…Again, by Rejecting Engineering Expansion: With one third already funded, all the state had to do was contribute the rest, with a massive budget surplus as a cushion. Nope. WPR:

WPR: The Wisconsin Department of Transportation hopes to nearly double the number of publicly-available electric vehicle charging stations around the state with an infusion of federal dollars — but an outdated state law stands in the way. But federal requirements stipulate those stations need to charge customers by the amount of electricity used, also known as kilowatt-hour. In Wisconsin, only regulated utilities are allowed to charge per kilowatt-hour.

Recent attempts to change the law have failed. A bill was introduced in the state Legislature last session, but died in the Assembly after being approved by the Senate. The language change was included in Gov. Tony Evers’ budget, but was removed earlier this year by the Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee.

7. …and finally, illegal recreational Marijuana, WI is the island in the Midwest:

It’s time to join our neighbors in legalizing and taxing marijuana, much like we already do with alcohol. https://t.co/DOgahR38h7

— Governor Tony Evers (@GovEvers) June 5, 2023

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