Tag: Andy Jorgensen

I’ll admit I appreciate Republican State Rep. Rob Brooks’ honesty in discussing how awful the state budget proposed by Republicans really is. “We may have a crap budget, but we’re going to make it better,” state Rep. Rob Brooks (R-Saukville) said on the Assembly floor Wednesday. While Rep. Brooks thinks…

Although it doesn’t always pay to tilt at windmills, the decision by Wisconsin Assembly Democrats and Assembly Minority Leader Representative Peter Barca to refrain from offering a single amendment to the biennial budget is downright perplexing. On the one hand I can understand the futility of offering up amendments that…

This will never stand up to Federal scrutiny, but it still sucks… The Assembly approved, on a bipartisan vote of 68-26, a bill requiring at least two-thirds of the purchases in the state’s FoodShare program to come from a list of state-defined healthy foods, with Republicans arguing that the benefits…

The most-used word at Scott Michalak’s campaign kickoff on Wednesday night was “poop.” Representative Brett Hulsey said it six times in his speech, alone. It sounds funny, but it’s no laughing matter. Residents of District 38 are worried about human waste in their drinking water (story here). Since the Walker-appointed DNR heads won’t…

From the Facebook page of Democratic State Rep. Andy Jorgensen comes word of a move by Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee to take away local control over road work contracts in excess of $100,000: A little motion came out of nowhere last Friday and was passed by JFC. My…