Veto showdown
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by WisPolitics.com staff
Evers signals he will veto a series of GOP election bills Gov. Tony Evers signaled he’ll likely veto more than a dozen GOP election bills scheduled for votes this week in the state Senate and Assembly. “I have to see them first, but the bottom line is, as I talked about in my State of the State speech, this is a fundamental democratic issue,” Evers said on WISN’s “UpFront.” “Not Democratic Party, it’s our democracy that’s on the line. And if we make it harder for eligible people to vote, then that’s going to be a problem for me.” Evers, who is seeking re-election in November, defended the Wisconsin Elections Commission and said the agency should continue overseeing elections in the state. Republican opponents Rebecca Kleefisch and Kevin Nicholson have called to eliminate the commission. “The people that work in the Elections Commission – the Elections Commission themselves are hard working – but the actual state employees that work there are great employees,” Evers said. “They’re just getting pummeled for no apparent reason. And so I think the present system works.” Evers also pushed back on criticism from Republicans that he’s not focused enough on crime and public safety as he prepares to seek re-election. “The question is why Republicans have consistently not funded shared revenue
for the municipalities,” Evers said. “Most of that money comes from shared revenue and most of the time Republicans have reduced or made it more difficult to have shared revenue being passed onto the municipalities.”
Gableman seeks jail for subpoena non-compliance
Former Justice Michael Gableman on Friday asked a Waukesha County judge to jail the Wisconsin Elections Commission chair and officials with four cities if they refuse to comply with previously issued subpoenas. Gableman had previously filed a similar request for the mayors of Green Bay and Madison only to back away from the suggestion he was seeking to have them jailed if they failed to comply. On Friday, he filed an amended motion that accuses the targets of willfully failing to comply with legislative subpoenas and asking the judge to set a deadline for them to do so. The motion asks the judge to jail the officials until they heed the proposed order. The motion says they all failed to appear by a deadline this week to testify before
his office and seeks to have the targets pay the fees and costs incurred by the state due to their actions. Along with Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich and Madison Mayor Satya RhodesConway, the new targets include: Madison Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl, Green Bay Clerk Celestine Jeffreys, Elections Commission Chair Ann Jacobs, Elections Commission IT Project Manager Sarah Linske, Wisconsin Director of Enterprise Technology Trina Zanow, Milwaukee Telecommunications Manager David Henke,
Milwaukee GIS Analyst Hannah Bubacz and a representative of Racine.
Assembly approves GOP workforce bills
The Assembly approved a series of bills Republicans say would help increase the size of the state’s workforce by moving more people off of government programs while increasing talent attraction and training efforts. Republicans are seeking to change
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