GET ME REWRITE: Wisconsin GOP lawmakers put a new spin on 'Just Say No'

 

The 12 GOP members of the Joint Committee on Finance (92% white, 8% Hispanic) certainly do not reflect Wisconsin's demographics.

Wisocnsin State Journal, 8/18/2022

Republican lawmakers on Wednesday objected to a plan by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ administration on how to spend $31 million in opioid settlement funds this year as the state issued a public health advisory on fentanyl deaths, saying they nearly doubled over the past three years. 

Evers criticized the objection by the state Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee, saying the move could delay the state’s effort to combat the opioid epidemic. “For these legislators to turn their backs on the people of Wisconsin, especially given increases in substance misuse and the mental and behavioral health challenges our state is facing today in the wake of the pandemic, it simply defies logic,” Evers said in a statement.  

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Finance committee leaders didn’t specify what the objection was in a letter to DHS or in a public statement, but suggested they will release a revised plan soon.

They are still trying to make one up.