Senator Steve Nass (R-Whitewater) issued the following statement in response to the deal cut between Senate Majority Leader LeMahieu and Senate Minority Leader Hesselbein to force through two very unpopular bills demanded by well-financed special interests:
“Today, the people of Wisconsin should have no lingering doubts as to how morally corrupt the state legislature has become in only doing the business of very powerful $pecial interests.
The public is overwhelmingly opposed to the tribal online gaming bill (AB 601) and UW/NIL bill (AB 1034), but the voters of this state clearly don’t matter to legislative leaders when campaign cash is flowing to grease the skids.
The problem for legislative Republicans is that our core voters will hold us to account for selling out their interests and the passage of these two unpopular bills will help pave the way to minority status for Republicans come November.
Wisconsin Republicans have done little to economically help families and small businesses, but our GOP leaders fought to force taxpayers to begin subsidizing million-dollar payments for UW athletes and further enrich tribal casino operators.
Simply disgusting.”
