Contact: Scott Fitzgerald (608)-266-5660 [Madison, WI] — Following Governor Scott Walker’s public signing of bills passed by the Senate and Assembly during the extraordinary session, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald issued the following statement: “Today’s bill signing by Governor Walker helps protect reforms that have been eight years in the making. I want to thank him, Speaker Vos, and my colleagues in the Senate for their work. “These bills protect taxpayers, expand transparency over the pardoning of convicted felons, provide a sense of stability moving forward in economic development, and more. The incoming governor-elect will remain one of the most

Contact: Amy Hasenberg, (608) 266-2839 GREEN BAY – Governor Scott Walker today signed Senate Bills 883, 884, and 886 into law. “Despite all the hype and hysteria out there, these bills do nothing to fundamentally diminish executive authority,” Governor Walker said. “The bottom line is the new governor will continue to be one of the most powerful chief executives in the country. This includes veto and line-item veto powers; appointing members of the cabinet and other government posts including judges, district attorneys, and sheriffs; broad executive order authority; administrative rule authority; issuing a state budget proposal; and more. “My criteria

Speaker Robin Vos (608) 266-3387 Madison…Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) released the following statement after Governor Walker took action on the extraordinary session bills. “I would like to thank Governor Walker for signing the extraordinary session proposals into law. Through his actions, he’s acknowledging the importance of the legislature as a co-equal branch of government. “As Democrats and the media continue to inflate these laws into something they’re not, Assembly Republicans are focusing on the new legislative session and will work to find common ground in divided government.”

CONTACT: Michael Tierney, 608-266-7521(office) MADISON – Representative Lisa Subeck (D-Madison) blasted Governor Scott Walker after today’s bill signing of SB 883, SB 884, and SB 886: “Governor Walker had a choice today. He could have ended his time in office on a high note by vetoing the GOP power grab. Instead, he signed the bills into law in their entirety, sealing his legacy as a leader who puts politics and partisanship ahead of the people.”

Contact: Sen Larson, 608.266.7505 Milwaukee – Today, Senator Larson released the following statement regarding Governor signing the Republican power grab bills. “Scott Walker is leaving the Governorship the same way he arrived: in chaos. “Since taking office in 1993, Scott Walker’s appetite for the ‘divide and conquer’ accumulation of power was always clear. In his years in office, he has held back Wisconsin from pursuing more affordable health care by rejecting the Medicaid expansion. He held Wisconsin back from being connected to the rest of the country via high speed modern rail. He stood in the way of grants for

Media Inquiries: Beth Swedeen (608) 266-1166 (Madison)- The Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities is disappointed that Governor Walker today signed into law a bill from last week’s Legislative Extraordinary Session that requires the Legislature to approve all changes and updates to Medicaid waivers, including waiver programs people with disabilities and their families rely in such as Family Care, IRIS, Children’s Long Term Supports, MAPP, Katie Beckett. This bill needlessly makes routine updates to Medicaid waiver programs more complex and time-consuming and adds a layer of bureaucratic requirements that takes Department of Health Services time away from time that

MEDIA CONTACT Mike Browne, Deputy Director mike@OneWisconsinInstitute.org (608) 444-3483 National Redistricting Foundation Will Support the Legal Challenge MADISON, Wis. — One Wisconsin Institute with the support of the National Redistricting Foundation, a 501(c)(3) affiliate of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, will be pursuing legal action in response to the attack on voting rights passed by the Republican-controlled Wisconsin legislature and signed into law by outgoing Gov. Scott Walker. Perkins Coie will once again represent One Wisconsin Institute. “This attack by Republicans in the legislature is not just unprecedented — it’s undemocratic, it’s unconstitutional, it’s un-American,” said Scot Ross, One Wisconsin

Contact: Joe Zepecki jz@jzcomms.com 202-445-1517 Washington, D.C. – This afternoon, outgoing Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed legislation preventing the duly elected incoming Democratic Governor and Attorney General from withdrawing from the deeply unpopular Walker-Schimel-Trump assault on the Affordable Care Act and pre-existing conditions in federal court. In response, Brad Woodhouse, executive director of Protect Our Care, released the following statement: “Scott Walker and Wisconsin Republicans don’t care about protecting their constituents’ health care, the rule of law, or the will of the people. After being trounced at the polls precisely because of their of their anti-health care agenda, despite their last ditch false promises to

Contact: EversPress@wisconsin.gov or 608-267-2560 MADISON – Today, Governor-elect Tony Evers issued the following statement on the lame-duck legislation: “Today, Governor Walker chose to ignore and override the will of the people of Wisconsin. This will no doubt be his legacy. The people demanded a change on November 6th, and they asked us to solve problems, not pick petty, political fights. The people of Wisconsin expect more from our government than what has happened in our state over the past few weeks. I’ve said all along that I will put the people of Wisconsin first and work to find common ground.