Steve Nass: Meet Asa Hutchinson

Republican state Sen. Steve Nass wants to strip the UW System of any authority to implement Covid-19 safety measures such as mandatory testing, reporting vaccination status or requiring masks on campus. Nass bizarrely accuses some UW Chancellors of ” taking advantage of Delta variant hysteria ” to enact excessive pandemic…

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GOP Wants Gender-specific Restroom Law

Really? This is the most pressing issue facing the state today that Madison needs to address it posthaste? First: Is this really an issue? Ahead of jobs, infrastructure maintenance, etc? Second: Shouldn’t the elected school boards have control of this IF they deem it an issue? Third: If Washington imposed…

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Guest Blog: An Open Letter to Sen. Steven Nass

What follows is a guest blog written by Joanne Brown. An Open Letter to Sen. Steven Nass Dear Sen. Nass: I attended the hearing of the Senate Committee on Labor and Government Reform, from its beginning until about 4:45 p.m. I witnessed your conduct of the hearing, heard your comments…

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Republicans Afraid Of Their Own Actions

Before today’s committee hearing on the misnamed Right to Work Legislation, Senate Labor Committee Chair Senator Steve Nass stated that they had to hurry up to pass the bill to avoid a confrontation with the people: Nass told the committee that it was essential to move quickly on right-to-work legislation…

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Assembly Democrats Have No Spine: What Budget?

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…

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Republican Rep. Steve Nass to vote against Republican biennial budget

Yesterday Republican State Rep. Steve Nass issued a press release announcing Nass would be voting against the 2013-2015 biennial budget approved by the Republican-led Joint Finance Committee. Rep. Nass cited the $500 million dollar structural deficit the budget would create, a large school voucher expansion, and the provision allowing bounty…

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So about that bipartisan beer and brats event tomorrow…

According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, it appears 98 state legislators – 60 Republicans, 37 Democrats and 1 independent – will be attending Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s “brat summit” tomorrow. According to Gov. Walker, he really REALLY wants to be all bipartisan and stuff, despite the fact that he’s never…

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What Do Anwar al-Awlaki and Steve nASS Have In Common?

A definite hatred of satirical cartoonists: Anwar al-Awlaki A Seattle cartoonist who drew a satirical cartoon suggesting an “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!” — an idea she later disavowed — reportedly has been placed on a hit list by a terror leader linked to the failed Times Square car bombing. Yemeni-American…

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From The Desk of Stephan nASS (part 3)

I have spent the last couple days chronicling Steve "Joe McCarthy" nASS attempts to jail a cartoonist for daring to make fun of him. I wanted one more post on this and hopefully the next time we hear about this will be in Steve nASS’s concession speech on election night…

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From The Desk Of Stephan nASS(part 2)

Madison Cartoonist Mike Konopacki is at it again: Local cartoonist Mike Konopacki isn’t intimidated by the criminal complaint Assemblyman Steve Nass (R-La Grange) filed against him Friday. Under investigation for using Nass’s letterhead in a gag press release, Konopacki’s done it again. This time Konopacki takes aim at Nass’s chief…

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