Quotes of the Week Threatening to remove an elected Supreme Court justice for partisan political gain is fundamentally anti-democratic, and to make matters worse, Speaker Vos is making his plans in secret. – American Oversight Executive Director Heather Sawyer on legislative Republicans’ threat to impeach liberal Justice Janet Protasiewicz. The

Quotes of the Week How stupid was that? That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. Talk about an out-of-touch governor. We’re going to send a survey rather than maybe actually meeting with people. How about talking to people? – Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Gov. Tony Evers’ survey to

Quotes of the Week It makes me remember that the job that we are doing is literally a matter of life and death. I will pray tonight for all the unborn children that will no longer have the opportunity to be born because of the decisions that politicians are making

Quotes of the Week The anti-democratic, unconstitutional threat to impeach Janet Protasiewicz would constitute a political disaster for the Republican Party and for our system of government at large. – State Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler announcing a $4 million campaign targeting GOP lawmakers threatening to impeach liberal Supreme Court

Quotes of the Week There are some folks out there who are asking why this special session would be any different. At the end of the day, I know that Republicans don’t want to be responsible for farmers, schools, hospitals and other businesses in their districts not being able to

Quotes of the Week There is no way the Legislature looks like a purple state; it looks like a red state. – Gov. Tony Evers on Law Forward’s lawsuit filed the day after liberal Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz took office, charging Wisconsin’s legislative maps are gerrymandered to give Republicans

Quotes of the Week Did I share with you when I used to get the article when I first ran for office when they wrote ‘dead faggot’ over your face and sent it to you in the mail?  Or the time when I wasn’t out yet, left a gay bar,

Quotes of the Week “F*** the suburbs because they don’t know a goddamn thing about how life is in the city. – Sen. LaTonya Johnson, D-Milwaukee, during the Senate’s budget debate this week, decrying concerns that crime in Milwaukee is spreading to the suburbs. Elected officials say dumb things occasionally,

Quotes of the Week Your days of feudal power are coming to an end. Milwaukee is strong, our leaders are strong. And in the words of the old negro spiritual, “we shall overcome” all these ugly policy provisions today. I’m just not sure that you will, Mr. Speaker. – Rep.

Quotes of the Week This compromise will be transformative for our communities and our state, and coming to an agreement in principle on major parts of this proposal is a significant milestone in my negotiations with Republican leaders over the past few months. – Dem Gov. Tony Evers on a

Quotes of the Week Fiscal stability and sanity are achievable through reasonable, responsible, and sensible reforms. This legislation is the first step in the right direction. – U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Janesville, after the House approved raising the debt limit until Jan. 25 in return for future spending cuts. The

Quotes of the Week We are done negotiating. We have negotiated in good faith literally for months. – Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, ahead of a floor vote to send the Republican-authored shared revenue bill to the Senate for consideration. A sticking point in the negotiations has been whether the

Quotes of the Week Do you think it’s a little weird that you’re pushing a ban on advisory referenda at the local level, but, yet, the Legislature pushed a statewide advisory referendum in the April election? – Rep. Clinton Anderson, D-Beloit, in an Assembly Local Government Committee hearing on the

Quotes of the Week The university has gone from being an institute of higher education to an institute of indoctrination. If they want to increase their funding, they have to show they can prioritize things to grow the economy, not grow the racial divide. – Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester,

Quotes of the Week Finish what job, destroying America? – U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, in a tweet on President Joe Biden’s announcement he will run for a second term in which Biden urged voters, “Let’s finish the job.” In 2024, we’re gearing up for the fight of our lives—yet

Quotes of the Week We are not Illinois. We are not California. We are not Colorado. We are a state that’s at best purple. And purple is not legalization of recreational marijuana. – Assembly Speaker Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester, after signaling Wisconsin Republicans are working to build support for a

Quotes of the Week The sad reality is that school shootings have happened. Schools provide soft targets for those looking to do harm, and this bill gives school boards the option to change that. – Rep. Scott Allen, R-Waukesha, on a bill he introduced with Sen. Cory Tomczyk, R-Mosinee, to

Quotes of the Week Although I’m sympathetic with the desire to repeal the 32- and 21-year-old AUMFs, while we still have men and women in harm’s way, I cannot support any action that might lead our enemy to believe that we will not do everything we can to protect them.

Quotes of the Week This seems to be a pattern for you, Janet, just tell a lie. You don’t know what I’m thinking about that abortion ban. You have no idea. … I had no conversations with those organizations about how I would rule on any issue, including the abortion

Quotes of the Week We are still proudly pro-life, but there are some things that are different than they were 175 years ago. We wanted to put an idea forward that shows we are willing to be reasonable. – Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, touting the GOP proposal to add