Ron's Weekly Recaps

This week, a Conservative watchdog Twitter group, “Libs of TikTok,” with 2 million followers, unfairly singled out the Kimberly Area School District (KASD) for grooming children with perverted pornographic information from a book called “This Book is Gay.”  This information should not be provided to any child, especially middle-schoolers at J.R. Gerritts.  Above is the statement from Kimberly’s School Superintendent, Bob Mayfield. Please review it.  

Assembly Republican, Barbara Dittrich, introduced a bill that would ban biological males from competing in high school women's sports. I recently signed onto this bill because denying basic biological facts to push an ideological agenda hurts young women. I wouldn't want my girls to have to compete against a biological man. It also destroys Title IX, a federal law designed to prevent discrimination based on gender in schools and sports. 

In his budget address five months ago, Governor Evers pledged to reduce the tax burden on the middle-class by promising a 10% tax cut. This tax cut would be applicable for single filers earning less than $100,000 and married joint filers earning less than $150,000. Despite the Republicans proposing a more generous 14% income tax cut, Evers vetoed these proposals, reducing the tax cut to a mere fraction of what was initially promised.

WATCH: Ron Reacts to the Budget Passed Yesterday

On Thursday, Wisconsin Legislative Republicans announced our much needed and long over due plan for $4.4 billion in tax relief.

On Wednesday, the State Assembly and the State Senate passed a historic & bipartisan expansion to the school choice program & public education funding. Additionally, 63% of Wisconsin voters believe the school choice program should be expanded. Here is why this will improve education in our state:

On Thursday, Legislative Republicans & Governor Tony Evers announced they have struck a deal on the historic shared revenue plan. The deal includes some of the most historic conservatives wins since Act 10. The agreement includes wins for conservatives, public schools, school choice, local governments, taxpayers, and small businesses. Here are some of the historic wins included in the deal:

Last week, Democrats claimed that our State Budget must include their progressive liberal entitlement programs to attract workers & families to our state.   The Democrats' main argument was that Wisconsin's stagnant population growth is due to Wisconsinites fleeing to our neighboring Democrat states of Illinois and Minnesota, because they have more entitlement & welfare programs. The non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau corrected them for their misinformation.   According to data collected from our federal tax returns, most of the people moving here are from Illinois & Minnesota.  However, when Wisconsinites leave, they go to the Republican states of Florida & Texas. 

Let's talk about school choice - a big deal here in Wisconsin. Right now, our tax money gives public schools about $15,000 for each kid. However, Kimberly receives $12, 822, Kaukauna receives $13, 386, Brillion receives $15,787 and Appleton receives $14,893.  But if a family wants to send their kid to a charter or choice school, that money drops to around $9,000. That's a huge difference! Most of us Wisconsinites agree that funding should be fair for all schools, no matter what kind they are.

Special Counsel John Durham’s report found the FBI and Justice Department were biased in their decision to investigate Trump's campaign, acting despite a lack of “substantial” evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia. The report suggests that this represented a "significant shift" from the agencies' reluctance to investigate allegations against Hillary Clinton's campaign. Durham's investigation of the FBI's investigation, called "Crossfire Hurricane,” not maintain "strict fidelity to the law."