State Sen. Chris Larson
Press Release

GOP Passes $76 Billion Betrayal of our Values

The following is a statement from Senator Chris Larson regarding the Senate passage of the defenseless 2017-19 state budget

By - Sep 17th, 2017 08:03 pm

The following is a statement from Senator Chris Larson regarding the Senate passage of the defenseless 2017-19 state budget:

“We all are deeply concerned about our communities and our children’s future. Wisconsin families, friends, and neighbors are being left behind by Walker and state Republicans. Whereas my Democratic colleagues and I proposed ideas to strengthen our communities, reward hard work, and invest in our kids’ future, Republicans in the Senate sold Wisconsin to the highest bidder.

“Democrats offered several ideas that would supported Wisconsin working families by restoring the desperately needed funds that have been slashed from our kids’ schools the last few years, protecting our tax dollars by holding voucher schools accountable, and creating common sense paths to economic security.

“In addition, our budget amendments would have protected our children from being poisoned from lead by investing in lead abatement. We also would have provided greater health and financial security for our neighbors at no cost to the state through our BadgerCare buy-in amendment.

“Our amendments would have protected our neighbors’ personal data, by letting them keep it private. Our amendments would have helped those facing opioid addiction. Our amendments would have restored integrity in our elections, a Wisconsin tradition that has crumbled under one of the most-corrupt governor’s in our state’s history.

“Not only did each of these common sense amendment get rejected by the Republican majority, they largely refused to even defend their votes.

“This $76 billion betrayal of our values is a further slide away from where the great state of Wisconsin once was.”

NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. While it is believed to be reliable, Urban Milwaukee does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.

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Comments

  1. Thomas says:

    Dear Chris,

    Thanks for sharing your concern re the self-serving and short-sighted budget that our state legislature has put forth – sadly w/o acknowledgement of amendments from Democrats in the legislature that could have made a budget more in the interest of a majority of citizens in our state.

    Partisan reactionaries who call themselves conservatives in our state legislature are doing nothing to conserve our land, our air, our water or our democratic principles in their single-minded mission to entrench power and profit for themselves and their pals – at the expense of our values and our quality of life. This orgy of self interest must be reversed before the architects and practitioners of it dismantle our once proud education system and most of our social institutions.

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