Quotes of the Week I think that the fact that we have so many lifers and careerists in this institution is why it’s so dysfunctional, and that the framers, when they created the Constitution and this country, had in mind that you would embark on a season of service and

Quotes of the Week The people who organized this are so out of touch with reality. And I’m just going to keep saying it over and over again: they are morons, they are stupid. These people do not deserve the respect that anybody gave them for the last three months,

Quotes of the Week It’s truly sad that a group of people who didn’t get their way in the 2020 election are wasting resources and effort working with Democrats to settle a political score rather than better using their time to defeat our ineffective Democrat President. – Assembly Speaker Robin

Quotes of the Week It is the duty of lawyers to vigorously represent their clients, regardless of their popularity, within the bounds of the law. Our representation was vigorous and ethically appropriate. – Former President Donald Trump’s attorney, Jim Troupis, defending his plan to transmit fake electoral votes on Trump’s

Quotes of the Week I cannot sign a bill that lets polluters off the hook for cleaning up their contamination and asks Wisconsinites to foot the bill. – Gov. Tony Evers vowing to veto a GOP bill seeking to fight PFAS contamination in the state. Dems started circulating legislation this

Quotes of the Week  When I promised I wanted fair maps — not maps that are better for one party or another, including my own — I damn well meant it. – Gov. Tony Evers after signing the redistricting plan he proposed into law. We sent him those maps, not

Quotes of the Week The geography of Wisconsin alone gives Republicans an electoral advantage in legislative districts unless you politically gerrymander, which is what the court is poised to do. – GOP Majority Leader Rep. Tyler August, R-Lake Geneva, arguing the only way Dems could have an advantage in legislative

Quotes of the Week Let’s be clear, our maps have been rejected for one reason and one reason alone, they don’t produce the partisan outcomes the experts or many on the Court want. – WILL President and General Counsel Rick Esenberg blasting the state Supreme Court-chosen map experts’ decision that

Quotes of the Week It sure the hell is about “who makes the decisions.” Wisconsinites should have the freedom to make their own decisions about their reproductive healthcare. And Republican legislators should have nothing to do with it. – Gov. Tony Evers responding to Rep. Scott Allen, R-Waukesha, who argued

Quotes of the Week When we as members allow the abuse of power by leaders of this chamber, we erode the prestige and the honor of the Assembly and we damage the legitimacy of our democratic republic. We step onto a slippery slope that leads to even greater abuse of

Subscribers: There will be no WisPolitics products Monday due to the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. Thank you for subscribing! Quotes of the Week I am a firm believer that private entities, run by those with expertise in this area of medicine, are more efficient and more effective than

Quotes of the Week This deal is part of a systematic racist deal. And it is discriminatory toward students, faculty and staff of color, because their experiences should never have a price tag and should never be bought out on what inclusion looks like on our campuses. – Legislative Black

Quotes of the Week The Wisconsin Legislative Black Caucus is appalled and ashamed that our state is going to such measures to remove Diversity, Equity and Inclusion from our educational institutions. We ask the question, who was at the table making negotiations on behalf of our black and brown students

Quotes of the Week “It was done by my predecessor and frankly it’s done to kind of protect my work time. And it doesn’t impact anybody. – Gov. Tony Evers defending his use of baseball Hall of Famer Warren Spahn’s name as an email alias, arguing former GOP Gov. Scott

Quotes of the Week Just like the movie, at the current rate, Congress is on track to wake up on February 2 and find itself in a similar predicament to the one it’s in today: no closer to a fully funded government and no closer to fixing our broken appropriations

Quotes of the Week We are thrilled to see a global powerhouse like Microsoft continue to see the value and benefit of growing their operations here in Wisconsin and the booming Southeast region of our state. – Gov. Tony Evers this afternoon announcing Microsoft will invest billions to expand its

Quotes of the Week They went too far. You know, it’s one thing to mess around with the decision that was made about purchasing land. But when we mess with people’s lives like that, that was the coup de grâce. – Gov. Tony Evers on deciding to file a lawsuit

Quotes of the Week It’s really unfortunate that we had to sue in order for us to get these public admissions of what we knew to be true all along. – Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe after lawyers representing GOP leaders admitted in court filings the vote to remove

Quotes of the Week I mean, this is a democracy issue. I mean, when we started … 2019, we started with the lame duck law. And this is just a continuation of this. They have to stop doing this. – Gov. Tony Evers before the GOP-run state Senate rejected eight

Quotes of the Week Impeachment is not taken lightly, but when we have lost trust in justice to be impartially carried out at all levels, it is time to act and put this embarrassment behind us. It is time to restore confidence not just in our elections process but in