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  • 12/9/2019

  • 12/6/2019

  • 11/26/2019

  • 11/20/2019

  • 11/15/2019

  • 11/8/2019

    • Republican Senators, Do Your Job! Two common-sense gun safety issues were the only items in the call for the special session... The overwhelming support for these two gun safety ideas demands the Wisconsin Legislature convene, debate, and vote on passage of these bills. View as PDF
  • 11/4/2019

    • Hate Has No Home Here! I condemn this attacker, and urge our community to break down notions of racial division, so that we can become stronger together. In the last few years, this type of verbal abuse and physical violence against Latinos and other groups has dramatically increased. View as PDF
  • 10/29/2019

  • 8/8/2019

    • Where's Robin? “It’s hypocritical for Vos to deny Representative Anderson the small and reasonable accommodation to occasionally phone in to a committee meeting while the Speaker has absolutely no medical reason not to appear to testify on his own bill.” View as PDF
    • Speaker Robin Vos' Moral Failure “I have witnessed many troubling injustices in the State Legislature during my time in Madison, but few have been as dumbfounding as Speaker Vos’ mistreatment of Representative Jimmy Anderson recently. View as PDF
  • 7/12/2019

  • 6/20/2019

    • The Battle to Sunset the Miller Park Tax is Finally Over "For more than a decade, I have fought to end the Miller Park five-county sales tax. Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Washington, and Waukesha County taxpayers were promised this tax would sunset in 2014... In the future, I sincerely hope promises made to the taxpayers are promises kept." View as PDF
  • 6/7/2019

    • Thank you Governor Evers Governor Tony Evers has issued Executive Order No. 29 declaring that a rainbow flag will be raised over the Wisconsin State Capitol building and other state buildings for the first time in history. View as PDF
  • 4/24/2019

  • 2/4/2019

    • Sorry, Your "Pants on Fire!" The Republican Assemblyman exclaims, 'I take the responsibility of keeping government open and accountable seriously.' While he's at it, he should launch an intensive investigation into former Governor Walker's secret Kimberly-Clark negotiations held during his election campaign. View as PDF
  • 2/1/2019

    • It's Groundhog Day in the GOP Legislature Just like in Bill Murray’s famous movie, Groundhog Day, the Republican majority leaders have begun their phony message war against Governor Tony Evers. They continue to repeat their hypocritical chant – ‘It’s Tony Evers’ fault! It’s Tony Evers’ fault! View as PDF
  • 1/3/2019

    • Carpenter Calls on GOP to Reverse WEDC Lame Duck Bill State Senator Tim Carpenter (D-Milwaukee) today called on Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to introduce legislation reversing changes made during the recent “lame duck” session to weaken Governor-Elect Tony Evers’ ability to appoint the head of WEDC View as PDF