MADISON, Wis. — Senator Steve Nass (R-Whitewater) issued the following statement regarding the buying of votes to pass Evers-Vos II deal in the Legislature:
“The Evers-Vos II Deal spending $1.8 billion did not have the votes to pass as originally introduced. After the LFB confirmed that the passage of the deal would explode the state’s structural deficit in the next budget period to $2.9 billion, the proposal was on life support.
As has been the ongoing crisis of integrity in the State Capitol this session, Governor Evers and legislative leaders are once again behind closed doors buying the votes of legislators to make a bad deal even worse.
I will continue to stand with Tom Tiffany and vote against this shallow political ploy that will in the long term hurt taxpayers, schools and other programs when the state’s next budget will have to consider program cuts, revenue increases or both.”
