A Win for College Free
Speech |
Last Friday, a United States District Court
ruled in favor of Northeast Wisconsin Technical College student
Polly Olsen and upheld her right to distribute religious
themed Valentine’s Day cards on campus. This important decision
highlights just how much our public college leaders
misunderstand the right, and value, of freedom of expression.
Now, more than ever, it is important for us to stand up and
defend free speech on college campuses. That’s why I’m proud to
join Representative Cody Horlacher and Speaker Vos in
reintroducing a
bill to ensure these rights are preserved at our University
of Wisconsin campuses.
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The Right to Bear Arms |
This week, Governor Evers and legislative
Democrats announced their goal to implement potentially
unconstitutional laws that would allow the state to take
firearms from law abiding citizens. The oath I took to uphold
the Constitution means a great deal to me, and I will never
support a law that jeopardizes the right to bear arms or a law
that sacrifices due process. There’s a great deal we have done
and continue to do in order to promote public safety, such as
ensuring safe schools with state grant funding and increasing
access to mental health support systems. However, the type of
gun control proposed by Democrats will do nothing but ensure
criminals greater access to weapons of defense than law abiding
citizens.
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Gov. Heeds Our Advice,
Restores New County Attorney Positions |
This week the Governor announced that he
would restore the four additional assistant district attorney
positions the legislature allocated to Winnebago and Outagamie
Counties, which he had vetoed in the bill in order to reallocate
them elsewhere. Although I was disappointed to see other rural
Wisconsin counties lose direly needed positions to Madison and
Milwaukee, I’m glad he listened to our local legislators.
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National POW/MIA
Recognition Day |
Today is National Prisoner of War/Missing
in Action Recognition Day, the perfect day to recognize the work
being done right here in Wisconsin to recover and identify
missing in action service members by the University of Wisconsin
Missing In Action (MIA) Recovery and Identification Project. I’m
currently co-sponsoring
a bill authored by Rep. Skowronski that would fund the
project’s ability to focus on service members missing from
Wisconsin. To learn more about the project, visit:
biotech.wisc.edu/missing-in-action
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Capitol Visitors |
On Tuesday, members of the Physical
Therapy Association visited the Capitol, including Rob Worth and Natalie
Mologne of Appleton.
Members of AARP Jean Marie and David Hinds of Appleton visited us on Tuesday as well.
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Around the District |
I had the opportunity to speak to the
UW-Oshkosh College Republicans on Thursday.
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Upcoming Events |
Check out upcoming events near us by visiting the
Wisconsin Tourism website or
https://appletondowntown.org/upcoming-events/
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office at the State Capitol in Madison. If you are in
downtown Madison, please feel free to stop by and say
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