FRI REPORT: Insiders expect Walker to spend heavily on his priorities, boxing out lawmakers on theirs

TABLE OF CONTENTS Quotes of the week Political stock report Insiders expect Walker to spend heavily on his priorities, boxing out lawmakers on theirs Evers calls for prioritizing children’s emotional and social well-being over test scores Profiles of Zimmerman, Stafsholt, two new additions to the Assembly Thompson says major Medicare changes unlikely to come soon Week ahead Political TV Names… Please log in to access subscriber content. If you don’t have a subscription, click here for a WisPolitics free trial and to view the different subscription options. Username or E-mail Password * Remember Me     Forgot Password

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Sen. Hansen: Republican Leaders Need to Stop Fleecing Taxpayers and Voters

“Republican leaders can’t agree on how to fix our roads, find a way to keep and attract good teachers or make good on the Governor’s promise to create 250,000 jobs, but they can agree to give a blank check to high-priced corporate lawyers to defend their rigging of our elections. “Instead of wasting more tax dollars GOP leaders should follow the federal court order and draw new, fair maps. To do any less is an affront not just to the taxpayers but to the voters who have been denied fair elections and their true choice of representation in the State

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Educational forum hosted by the Rock County Progressives

Basics Food Cooperative 1711 Lodge Dr, Janesville Wisconsin “Bernie Sanders’s incredible success showed that America is ready for alternatives, possibly open to having a democratic socialist as president! Yet many do not know what it means. So we asked a representative of one of the largest such groups in the US, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), of which Bernie is a member,” said Chuck Ogg of the Rock County Progressives. “Therefore we are excited to have Marc Silberman speak at our upcoming forum, answering the question, ‘What is Democratic Socialism?” Marc has been a long-term member of the DSA.

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Wisconsin Public Education Network: Wisconsin communities call for restored funding for public schools

Media Contacts: Heather DuBois Bourenane, (608) 572-1696 or hdb@WisconsinNetwork.org Jim Bowman, Fox Cities Advocates for Public Education, 920-731-3754 Twenty public education advocacy teams from around the state have united through the Wisconsin Public Education Network to issue the following statement: We represent parents and communities from around Wisconsin who believe that every child deserves equal access to an excellent public education. Since 1993, our ability to locally control and fund our schools has been restricted by revenue limits. During the last decade, funding has stagnated and revenue limits have actually been frozen for the past two years. Funding for students

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Educational forum hosted by the Rock County Progressives

Basics Food Cooperative 1711 Lodge Dr, Janesville Wisconsin “Bernie Sanders’s incredible success showed that America is ready for alternatives, possibly open to having a democratic socialist as president! Yet many do not know what it means. So we asked a representative of one of the largest such groups in the

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Wisconsin Public Education Network: Wisconsin communities call for restored funding for public schools

Media Contacts: Heather DuBois Bourenane, (608) 572-1696 or hdb@WisconsinNetwork.org Jim Bowman, Fox Cities Advocates for Public Education, 920-731-3754 Twenty public education advocacy teams from around the state have united through the Wisconsin Public Education Network to issue the following statement: We represent parents and communities from around Wisconsin who believe

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