Democratic Weekly Radio Address: Start Undoing GOP Damage to Education
Today Rep. Cory Mason (D-Racine), a member of the Joint Finance Committee (JFC), offered the Democratic Weekly Radio Address. The topic this week is the K-12 education plan put forward by JFC Democrats.
Bipartisan Isabella's Law Approved Unanimously by Assembly Committee
RACINE – Today, the Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice unanimously voted to support Assembly Bill 190, known as “Isabella’s Law,” authored by State Representatives Thomas Weatherston (R-Caledonia) and Cory Mason (D-Racine).
Republicans Gut Stewardship
MADISON – State Representative Cory Mason (D-Racine) issued the following statement in response to the Committee’s biennial budget action today on the Wisconsin’s Warren Knowles-Gaylord Nelson Stewardship program
Reps. Weatherston & Mason Introduce Bipartisan "Isabella's Law"
RACINE - State Representatives Cory Mason (D-Racine) and Thomas Weatherston (R-Caledonia) announced today that they are introducing bipartisan legislation to protect victims of child sexual assault.
Rep. Mason Statement in Response to News of UW Surplus
MADISON – State Representative Cory Mason (D-Racine) issued the following statement in response to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau report issued today which shows that the University of Wisconsin System has a balance of nearly $650 million:

Wisconsin State Journal: Provision Blocks Tougher Local Erosion Control Standards
“It doesn’t seem to make much sense if you believe in local control and finding innovative ways for local municipalities to work with developers,” Mason said.
Green Bay Press Gazette: Republican Senator Criticizes State Revenue Workers
Rep. Cory Mason, D-Racine, said it was only fair to broaden the new penalties because those who apply for the earned income tax credit and homestead credits are typically poor and elderly. The committee approved the change on a unanimous vote.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: State Stewardship Funds Trimmed By $18 million
"You are really gutting the stewardship program as we know it," he said. "This is a radical departure for the stewardship program from what we have seen in the past."
Wisconsin Radio Network: New Oversight Proposed For WEDC
State Representative Cory Mason (D-Racine) argued the agency should be forced to go back and show how state dollars have been used so far and questioned how Republicans could propose “spending another nickel on WEDC, until we know that it works."
Racine Journal Times: Preliminary OK For Harbor Funds
Spurred by state Rep. Cory Mason, D-Racine, the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee voted Tuesday to add $700,000 to the state budget for dredging the basin, putting a big dent in the county’s share of the cost.

5/20/2013Wisconsin State Journal: Provision Blocks Tougher Local Erosion Control Standards
“It doesn’t seem to make much sense if you believe in local control and finding innovative ways for local municipalities to work with developers,” Mason said.
5/15/2013Green Bay Press Gazette: Republican Senator Criticizes State Revenue Workers
Rep. Cory Mason, D-Racine, said it was only fair to broaden the new penalties because those who apply for the earned income tax credit and homestead credits are typically poor and elderly. The committee approved the change on a unanimous vote.
5/15/2013Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: State Stewardship Funds Trimmed By $18 million
"You are really gutting the stewardship program as we know it," he said. "This is a radical departure for the stewardship program from what we have seen in the past."
5/10/2013Wisconsin Radio Network: New Oversight Proposed For WEDC
State Representative Cory Mason (D-Racine) argued the agency should be forced to go back and show how state dollars have been used so far and questioned how Republicans could propose “spending another nickel on WEDC, until we know that it works."
4/30/2013Racine Journal Times: Preliminary OK For Harbor Funds
Spurred by state Rep. Cory Mason, D-Racine, the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee voted Tuesday to add $700,000 to the state budget for dredging the basin, putting a big dent in the county’s share of the cost.
4/28/2013Bill Would Limit Early Voting Hours
State Reps. Duey Stroebel, R-Saukville, and Cory Mason, D-Racine, debate Stroebel's bill to establish consistent hours statewide for in-person, absentee voting.
4/22/2013UW Surplus A Chance To Cut Tuition Student Debt
"Not only should we be freezing tuition given the news of the UW’s surplus, but the state budget deliberations should include a serious conversation about reducing student debt by lowering the cost of tuition, increasing student financial aid, or both.”
4/22/2013Lawmakers Work To Keep Alleged Sex Offenders Away From Their Victims
A Racine father is getting some help from lawmakers after police say his neighbor did the unthinkable. State Representatives Cory Mason (D-Racine) and Thomas Weatherston (R-Caledonia) introduced bipartisan legislation to protect victims of child assault.
4/22/2013Proposed law would distance child victims from sex offenders
When a neighbor allegedly sexually assaulted his 8-year-old daughter, only to return on bail to live next door, Jimi Street approached his state legislator for assistance.
4/16/2013Voucher School Opposition Dominates Budget Public Hearing
Local Democratic legislators took the state budget on the road, holding an informal hearing in Racine Monday to solicit locals’ feedback on the governor’s proposed budget.
4/15/2013Resident's Decry Governor's Budget During Hearing
Local Democrats from the state Legislature got an earful Monday from Kenosha and Racine residents, calling for them to oppose massive spending cuts in Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget.
4/13/2013Rent-to-own may return: Republicans see it as job creation; Democrats say businesses prey on poor
“Instead of going through the normal legislative process where this proposal would be exposed in the light of day for the deal it is for Wisconsin’s consumers, Scott Walker has snuck this provision into his state budget,” Mason said
3/15/2013Bill To Force Open Caucus Meetings Being Introduced For 4th Time
The state Legislature would be required to hold its partisan meetings in the open under a bill to be introduced for the fourth time by Rep. Cory Mason, D-Racine.
3/14/2013Wisconsin a Tax Heaven for Businesses
“That’s extraordinary,” said State Rep. Cory Mason, D-Racine, a member of the Legislature Joints budget committee, in an article by the Wisconsin State Journal. “We talk about being tough on people who break the law, but this allows people to cheat.”
3/8/2013We doubt that Cory Mason will have to eat his shoe
When allies of Gov. Walker rammed a fundamentally flawed mining bill through the Legislature this week, the Assembly’s most consistent advocate for working families and job creation objected.
3/3/2013Fine print in Scott Walker's tax proposals draws criticism
“We talk about being tough on people who break the law, but this allows people to cheat. That’s extraordinary,” said state Rep. Cory Mason, D-Racine
2/25/2013Wisconsin Budget Panel Sends Mining Bill To Full Legislature
"It would be a sweetheart deal for the mining company, but it would be a raw deal for the Wisconsin citizens, who are going to have to their natural resources removed into perpetuity and not receive their fair share of resources," Rep. Mason said.
1/7/2013Racine area Dems propose minimum wage increase
“It’s an important enough issue that I think it merits revisiting again and again and again until we have some success and workers have wages that keep them out of poverty.”
7/15/2012Caledonia Patch: River Bend Nature Center Returns to Its Roots
Shortly after a morning of refreshing and much needed rain, Ellie Batten cut the floral "ribbon" commemorating River Bend Nature Center's new beginnings. In attendance were local officials such as Rep. Cory Mason, Sen. John Lehman and Sen. Bob Wirch.
6/28/2012Wisconsin Law Journal: Wis. GOP - Court Ruling on Health Care Has Little Immediate Effect
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Thursday upholding most of President Barak Obama's signature health care reform law will likely have little immediate practical effect in Wisconsin
6/1/2012Racine Journal Times: River Development Proposal Unveiled, Headed to City Council
RACINE - A once-faraway vision of a revitalized riverfront Downtown has taken root and is closer to reality, supporters hope.
5/24/2012Journal Sentinel: Conservation Group Rates Legislators' Records
The Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters issued its report card on legislators Wednesday for their voting records during the 2011-'12 legislative session.
5/24/2012League of Conservation Voters: Conservation Scorecard 2011 - 2012
Representative Mason named a Conservation Champion with a score of 100%.
5/24/2012Wisconsin Association for Career & Technical Education: Award of Merit Recipient
Representative Mason selected as a Region III Award of Merit recipient from Wisconsin.
5/22/2012Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin, Inc.
Fire Fighters Name Rep. Mason Legislator of the Year
5/22/2012Racine Journal Times: State Firefighters Union Names Mason Legislator of the Year
RACINE — The Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin named state Rep. Cory Mason, D-Racine, the 2012 legislator of the year, the union announced Tuesday in a news release.
5/19/2012River Alliance of Wisconsin: Rep. Mason Receives River Champion Award
Madison, WI: Representative Cory Mason has been named a River Champion by statewide conservation organization River Alliance of Wisconsin.
3/26/2012RUSD: Rep. Mason Presents Dictionaries to Thrid Graders
The AT&T Wisconsin Pioneers, State Senator Bob Wirch and State Representative Cory Mason today presented donated dictionaries to more than 100 third graders at S.C. Johnson Elementary School in Racine...
3/18/2012Caledonia Patch: Rep. Cory Mason - GOP Legislative Session an Epic Failure
Governor Walker’s 2011-12 legislative session ended the way it began: with destructive, short-sighted, bills that did nothing to move Wisconsin forward being rushed through the legislature.
3/15/2012Racine Journal Times: Commentary by Rep. Mason - Sunshine Week
MADISON — This week is “Sunshine Week,” a national effort to promote the importance of open and transparent government.
2/24/2012Mount Pleasant Patch: Repealing Wisconsin's Equal Pay Act
Every time I think this legislative session could not possibly get any stranger or more shocking, my Republican colleagues do something else to surprise me.
2/15/2012Dane 101: A Battle Over How To Use National Foreclosure Settlement Money
Last week Gov. Scott Walker and Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced that a chunk of the state's $140 million share of a national settlement over bank abuses of foreclosure and mortgage-servicing...
2/15/2012TMJ 4: Joint Finance Committee Arguing Over Use of Foreclosure Settlement Money
MILWAUKEE- The legislature's Joint Finance Committee is deciding what to do about Governor Walker's decision to use home foreclosure settlement money to plug a hole in the state budget.
2/14/2012Racine Journal Times: Rep. Mason Proposes Foreclosure Relief Bill
MADISON — State Rep. Cory Mason, D-Racine, announced a proposed bill Tuesday that would undo Gov. Scott Walker’s plans to use a portion of national mortgage settlement funds to fill a budget shortfall, instead putting it toward foreclosure relief.
2/14/2012Mount Plesant Patch: State Reps Introduce FAIR Act
Saying the entire pot of $140 million national foreclosure funds should go to Wisconsin homeowners and not to help plug a hole in the state budget, state Democratic Representatives Cory Mason and Tamara Grigsby introduced legislation to make it happen.
2/10/2012Wisconsin State Journal: State's Budget Condition Worsens
The cost of new legislation, a substantial reduction in tax revenues and a series of outstanding debts have the state facing a budget shortfall of more than $143 million in 2013.
2/9/2012Wisconsin Radio Network: LFB Projects Wisconsin Budget Hole
Wisconsin is facing a $143 million shortfall for this biennium, according to an annual analysis released Thursday by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau — that’s almost $216 million below the nearly $73 million surplus that was projected in October.
12/14/2011Racine Journal Times: Vos and Mason Aim to Restore Funding to Sexual Assault Victim Grants
Sexual assault service agencies statewide have been facing cuts, but Racine County's two Joint Finance Committee members said Wednesday they want to find alternatives to cutting at least some of $900,000 in state funding.
11/14/2011Racine Journal Times: Rep. Mason Introduces Condominium Owners Bill of Rights
STURTEVANT - Leaking walls and windows, huge potholes and lack of representation are among the complaints from two local property developments that have led a Racine legislator to propose a state Condominium Owners' Bill of Rights law.
11/13/2011Racine Journal Times: Balancing Budget Doesn't Need to be Done on Backs of Workers
State budgets are about priorities. They are also a reflection of our values. Last week in the Legislature's Joint Committee on Finance, I watched as Republicans, over the strenuous objections of myself...
10/5/2011Racine Journal Times: Rep. Mason Proposes Giving More Money to Tech Schools
MADISON - State Rep. Cory Mason, D-Racine, introduced a bill Wednesday that would replace the money cut from technical colleges in the budget with new taxes paid by those who make more than $1 million annually.
9/14/2011Racine Journal Times: Rep. Mason to join Rep. Vos on Powerful State Finance Committee
MADISON - State Rep. Cory Mason, D-Racine, has been appointed to an important finance committee that basically controls the state's revenue and spending, his office announced Wednesday.
6/30/2011Racine Journal Times: Why I Voted Against Walker's Attack on the Middle Class
When I was evaluating the state budget last week, the question I focused on most was this: is this budget going to make life better or worse for the people I represent? The answer is a resounding ‘worse.'

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