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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
CHAOS AT THE CAPITOL
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Thousands swarm square in protest By Patrick Tricker The Daily Cardinal
While the Joint Finance Committee held public hearings on the budget repair plan, thousands of protesters angry with Gov. Scott Walker’s bill rallied in and around the state Capitol Tuesday, chanting, hoisting signs and banging drums. “I don’t really go to protest very often,” protester Andrew Mazur said. “But this one meant enough to me to come out because I’m really, really scared for the state right now. I knew Walker was going to be conservative. I didn’t expect him to gut all social programs like he’s doing.” Some protesters held signs questioning the state’s support of teachers: “Can you read this? Thank a Teacher.” Others compared Walker to the recently removed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak: “Don’t dictate, negotiate,”
Bill’s dissenters dominate JFC public hearing By Ariel Shapiro The Daily Cardinal
and “Dictators will fall.” “All we’re asking is for Walker to come to the table and talk,” said Jeff Berger, a custodian at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. “The way he’s handling it is not the way to do it.” University of Wisconsin-Madison students also joined the protests. Junior Nicole Tautges protested because her father has been a teacher at White Water High School for 25 years and was too busy working to attend. Alex Alvarez, a graduate student, said the bill impacts him personally. “This definitely affects me and affects my classmates and affects my professors,” Alvarez said. “And the last thing we want is a great university like to lose competitive professors to other universities because of this bill.” Some protesters passed out flyers protest page 4
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A student signs up on the list of public hearing speakers Tuesday.
Droves of frustrated citizens turned out to give the Joint Finance Committee a piece of their mind Tuesday. The committee held a public hearing beginning at 10 a.m. Tuesday to discuss Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial budget repair bill. As of press time the hearing was still ongoing. Before citizens gave testimony, lawmakers were given the chance to question members of the Legislative Fiscal Bureau as well as Department of Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch about the bill. Huebsch repeatedly insisted this bill is necessary to solve the $3.6 billion state deficit. However, the hundreds of speakers that followed for the next 15-plus hours pleaded with the committee to reconsider the bill, condemning it as an assault on workers’ rights. UW-Madison graduate students and hearing page 3
Resnick, Szarzynski advance Exec race pared down
Soglin,Cieslewicz move on
By Maggie DeGroot Scott Resnick and Kyle Szarzynski will move forward to the April 5 general election in the race for the District 8 seat on Madison’s Common Council. Resnick, president of the State-Langdon Association and recent UW-Madison graduate, won the primary election with 48 percent of the total 424 votes, according to the Dane County Clerk’s Office. Szarzynski, a UW-Madison senior, came in second, earning 41 percent of the vote. UW-Madison alumnus Christian von Preysing-Barry gained 9 percent of the vote. Resnick said it felt good to win the primary election and wants to keep carrying the momentum into April for the general election.
State Rep. Joe Parisi, D-Madison, and Dane County Board Supervisor Eileen Bruskewitz will face off in April to replace retiring Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk after finishing in the top two spots in the primary Tuesday. When Falk announced in October she would step down from the position in which she had served since 1997, it created a wide open race to take her place. Parisi received just over 26 percent of the vote, with Bruskewitz close behind at around 22 percent. One challenger, Dane County Board Supervisor Scott McDonell, finished less than 2 percent behind Bruskewitz but could not catch her.
In a close match-up, former mayor Paul Soglin eked out incumbent Dave Cieslewicz with more votes in Tuesday’s primary election. As of press time, Soglin earned 50 percent of the vote while Cieslewicz earned 47 percent. Candidates Nick Hart and John Blotz each recieved 2 percent of the vote and Dennis de Nure received 1 percent of the vote. Soglin and Cieslewicz will once again duke it out for the position of Madison mayor in the upcoming April 5 general election. Soglin said he was surprised to gain more votes than Cieslewicz. “We expected to do well, but we didn’t think we would do quite this well,” Soglin said. Soglin served as mayor from 1973 to 1979 and again from 1989 to 1997, and previously ran against the Cieslewicz in 2003 but lost by a narrow margin.
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