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

Quotes of the Week How do we trust you, and honest to God that made me so angry back then. And even now, I’ll be honest with you, when I see you, I refer to you as Wisconsin’s Dr. Fauci. – Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules Chair Sen.

Quotes of the Week I understand that Judge Janet has certain policies that she wants to pursue, but she can only do that by tearing down our Constitution, setting aside our law to make sure she can get to her favorite positions. My position is quite simple. We follow the

Quotes of the Week I understand that Judge Janet has certain policies that she wants to pursue, but she can only do that by tearing down our Constitution, setting aside our law to make sure she can get to her favorite positions. My position is quite simple. We follow the

Quotes of the Week She’s promised to put her thumb on the scales of justice, to make sure that cases come out the way she wants them to come out, rather than based on what the law commands. This is an ancient form of dishonesty that has been universally condemned

Quotes of the Week We’re not flirting with fringe ideas here, folks—the priorities I just listed should be easy. These concepts aren’t controversial, at least not to the folks who spend more of their time outside of the Capitol building than inside of it. – Gov. Tony Evers in his

Quotes of the Week Do I think that we should have some kind of an inflationary increase so that teacher salaries are competitive? Yeah, of course I do. But I also think that if we just do more of the same, we’re going to get more of the same, which

Quotes of the Week The state must fulfill its obligation to fund our communities, just like we must fully fund our public schools and invest in clean water. Our state, our economy and our workforce depend on these investments. – Gov. Tony Evers during his State of the State address.

Quotes of the Week If they want to talk about voter suppression, then I think they should go back and talk about what happened in April of 2020 where the Democratic administration of the city of Milwaukee, they reduced the polling places. – GOP Elections Commissioner Bob Spindell defending his

Quotes of the Week The success of the Commission depends on our ability to balance the law and public safety while supporting victims, survivors, and their families and keeping dangerous individuals off of our streets. – Former state Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-West Point, on Gov. Tony Evers appointing him as

Quotes of the Week Hopefully, we’ll be able to put the rhetoric aside and focus on what our priorities really are, which is finding common ground, not throwing red meat to one side or the other. – Assembly Speaker Robin Vos after winning his seventh speaker election, adding his priorities

Quotes of the Week So just so the public is clear, I think we may be overselling this a little bit that this is the solution to the whole problem. And I don’t believe this rule is, and I don’t want the public to walk away with that perception. –

Quotes of the Week It is far better for Congress to pass legislation that protects religious organizations and provides stability to the millions of people in a same-sex marriage than to rely on federal judges to make these decisions. – U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Allouez, on his decision to support

Quotes of the Week I’m struggling to think of any other reason that she would believe she would be a qualified candidate for the Supreme Court. – Former state Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly in a statement to the Associated Press saying his fellow conservative Supreme Court opponent got into

Political Stock Report–A collection of insider opinion–(Nov. 10 – 18, 2022) Rising: Tammy Baldwin, Bryan Steil Mixed: Jennifer Dorow, Rebecca Cooke, GOP chair Falling: Ron Johnson, Janel Brandtjen ********************* Rising Tammy Baldwin: The Madison Dem’s bill to add legal protections for gay marriage clears a major procedural hurdle in the

Quotes of the Week As we found out last night, all the rural areas added up together can’t offset a bad night in Waukesha County. – Republican redistricting consultant and longtime election observer Joe Handrick in an interview with Fox 47. Handrick said Republicans had trouble in areas of the

Quotes of the Week I will not accept, I will not tolerate, and I certainly will not defend any misrepresentation by a city official involved in elections. It does not matter to me that this might have been an effort to expose a vulnerability that state law created. – Milwaukee