Quotes of the Week Politicians shouldn’t be in the business of interfering with decisions a patient makes with their healthcare provider. I will always defend reproductive rights. Period. – Gov. Tony Evers on a series of abortion-related bills following an Assembly Health Committee public hearing. Republicans in the Legislature have

Quotes of the Week All’s I can say is if I were a clerk I’d be lawyered up. I hate to see them in this position when they’re being told they have to prove this was a good election. Everybody knows it was a good election. … It’s a $700,000

Quotes of the Week This legislation will continue our efforts to support businesses and families as they bounce back from the pandemic while ensuring our local governments have the aid they need to remain whole. – Gov. Tony Evers on his proposal to repeal the personal property tax on businesses

Quotes of the Week As part of our efforts to manage the state workforce, we’re looking to every tool at our disposal to address the delta variant, including testing, wearing masks, and vaccination. – Evers Administration Secretary Joel Brennan on the Evers administration’s mandate that unvaccinated executive branch workers must

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Quotes of the Week Dr. Prehn’s term is over. His attempt to remain on the Natural Resources Board indefinitely, in defiance of the will of the voters, is fundamentally undemocratic. – Dem AG Josh Kaul slamming Natural Resources Board Chair Frederick Prehn for refusing to step down from the board

Quotes of the Week After years of partisan politics consuming Washington, I’m voting for the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act because it’s my job to deliver results for Wisconsin and that’s exactly what this bill does. – U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, voicing her support for the $1.2 trillion

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Quotes of the Week He proposed over a billion dollar tax increase in his budget. Less than a half a year later, he signs this budget that cuts taxes by two billion and takes credit for it. – Republican Party of Wisconsin Chair Andrew Hitt on Gov. Tony Evers taking

Quotes of the Week I really believe in the governor’s ability to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Some of us have to pay attention to our districts. – Senate Minority Leader Janet Bewley, D-Mason, explaining her vote in favor of the GOP-led Joint Finance Committee’s budget

Quotes of the Week Once again, House Democrats have used their majority to balkanize our country and fuel separatism by creating a race-based ‘Independence Day.’ There is only one Independence Day in America, just as there is only one National Anthem, one American flag and one America – under God,

Quotes of the Week [W]e did a billion dollars in tax cuts my first year in office, $400 million last year. It’s not like this is a tax-cut free zone here in Madison. – Gov. Tony Evers, in an interview airing Sunday on “UpFront,’’ when asked whether he is open

WisPolitics.com will be covering the Democratic Party’s virtual state convention this weekend. Check the WisPolitics.com Dem Convention Blog now for a preview of Gov. Tony Evers’ convention speech, and check back for more news throughout the weekend. Quotes of the Week I think it’s wrong that my employees who go

Quotes of the Week It is not only morally wrong. Fiscally, it’s really stupid if you think about it. Who says ‘no’ to a billion dollars? –  Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-West Point, on Republicans’ almost immediate rejection of Gov. Tony Evers’ call for a special session to expand Medicaid, which

Quotes of the Week I have a hard time with the idea that this is some sort of a massive statement, speaks volumes of some big equality or equity statement, when what we have before us is a request that no one really asked for. – Joint Finance Co-Chair Rep.

Quotes of the Week I always felt the Aug 6, 2020 FBI briefing was a set up, and now I know it was. I’ve asked who directed that it be given and what the underlying intelligence was for the unnecessary and useless briefing. The deep state hasn’t told me –