Wisconsin’s lazy Republicans avoid doing their jobs AGAIN (VIDEO)

Watch as the Wisconsin Assembly Republicans gavel in the Governor Evers-called special session on modernizing the state’s unemployment system and then immediately move to adjourn until Thursday. I don’t know about you but I’m sick and tired of Wisconsin’s Assembly Republicans getting taxpayer-funded salaries to do nothing for months on…

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Platform 2020: Wisconsin Should Move To A Part Time Legislature

It has been somewhere between 180 and 200 days since the Wisconsin Legislature has met and taken any kind of action…and we are knee deep in a pandemic and sinking. So it is abundantly clear that Wisconsin doesn’t need a full time legislature. And since the institution of the biennial…

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Wisconsin Assembly GOP Sticking With Official Inaction

In reply to Patrick Marley, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Wisconsin Statehouse reporter, the official Twitter account of the Wisconsin Assembly GOP (and the Republican majority as they gloat in their profile), stick with the party line that the lawsuits against the governor aren’t about the masks but his official overreach….

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Dystopian Madison: GOP Assembly Edition

Wisconsin voters are about split evenly between the Democrats and Republicans with a healthy number who identify as independent. And for most partisan general elections, you can expect the majority of the voters to vote along party lines…with independents voting for someone who best aligns with their interests. But regardless…

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A COVID-19 Diagnosis Isn’t A Trigger For Workman’s Comp For Healthcare Providers

Today, the Wisconsin Assembly passed the state’s reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic and changed the unemployment first week waiting period, made some changes to allow expanded Medicaid support, and made other changes to health insurance coverage related to the pandemic. All good things! And they also addressed providing workman’s compensation…

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Rep. Chris Taylor isn’t running for re-election?

Ok, this is something of a surprise and a big disappointment…but buried in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article about the retirement of Sen. Fred Risser is this tidbit: And in a further shakeup of Democratic politics in Dane County, state Rep. Chris Taylor announced Thursday she would not run for a seat…

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Republicans reveal self-serving selves

Sometimes it pays to read the documents posted on the Wheeler Report, the long-time reporting service for state politics. That’s where I ran across this gem, a letter from the Assembly Republicans to the head of the Office of Refugee Settlement. In a self-satisfied and self-serving letter they ask that Wisconsin not…

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