WI DEMOCRATS RESPOND TO GOP’S EXTRAORDINARY SESSION LEGISLATION

From our inbox, a Democratic press release (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 30, 2018) addressing Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzegerald’s blatant GOP power grab in Wisconsin: MADISON – Today, Governor-elect Tony Evers, Attorney General-elect Josh Kaul, Senate Democratic Leader Jennifer Shilling, and Assembly Democratic Leader Gordon…

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Got My First Email From Gordon Hintz

Surprisingly he’s asking for money! Edward, Hello. I wanted to drop a quick note and introduce myself. My name is Gordon and I’m so honored to be the new Minority Leader for Wisconsin’s Assembly Democrats. I’m ready and excited to work with you in the coming months and years as…

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Wisconsin’s struggling Assembly Democrats choose Gordon Hintz to lead them (meh)

In a move that seems destined to lead to no good outcomes for them, Wisconsin’s Assembly Democrats have elected State Rep. Gordon Hintz as their leader. Hintz will replace Rep. Peter Barca of Kenosha, who announced earlier this month he was stepping down as Assembly minority leader after many of…

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Democrats Behaving Badly: Playing Walker Bingo At the State of the State

Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that State Representative Gordon Hintz created a little Governor Walker bingo game and passed it out to Democratic legislators for use during the governor’s State of the State address. Now I am hardly a fan of Governor Walker but he is still…

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I kinda wish someone would primary Gordon Hintz

As if to prove how little regard he has for anyone who doesn’t support Wisconsin’s Democratic Party establishment without question, Democratic State Rep. Gordon Hintz chimed in a couple of weeks ago about a primary challenge to incumbent Democratic State Rep. Robb Kahl by Jimmy Anderson. See, being the unquestioning…

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Democrats join Republicans in approving $350 million in borrowing for WI DOT concrete machine

As reported by the CapTimes, all four Democrats on the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Finance joined six Assembly Republicans in voting to pull out the state’s credit card and charge $350 million for road projects throughout Wisconsin. The four Democrats who voted with Republicans to pull out the state’s credit…

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So which Republican(s) wanted the sweeping changes to Wisconsin’s open records laws

Just keep this in mind when you hear Gov. Scott Walker talk about how he doesn’t want changes to Wisconsin’s open records laws. JFC GOP made it clear to us that @GovWalker signed off on motions INCLUDING OPEN RECORDS CHANGES after crossing out what he'd veto #opengov — Gordon Hintz…

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Shame on Gordon Hintz

It’s been reported that immediately following the Assembly Republicans’ vote to engross Gov. Walker’s union-busting budget proposal last Friday, Democratic State Rep. Gordon Hintz allegedly turned to Republican State Rep. Michelle Litjens and said, “You are F***king dead!” Yesterday Rep. Hintz apologized for his comment, and Rep. Litjens said she…

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Rep Gordon Hintz D-Oshkosh tells it like it is

I love this video of Representative Gordon Hintz Democrat of Oshkosh calling out the Assembly for their lack of transparency and lack of respect during the Walker budget repair bill after they voted 3 minutes before 5 to pass the bill while the Democrats were absent and in route to the floor.

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Rep. Hintz to host predatory lending briefing

State Rep. Gordon Hintz (D-Oshkosh) will be hosting an informational briefing on predatory payday lending reform tomorrow in Madison: **MEDIA ADVISORY** Informational Briefing on Predatory Payday Lending reform Madison – On Wednesday, September 16, 2009, supporters of the effort to reform payday lending in Wisconsin will hold a briefing for…

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