Wednesday, July 12, 2023

GET ME REWRITE: Wisconsin GOP leadership dutifully does the bidding of billionaires and imports anti-worker legislation from Florida

 
Headline:  Wisconsin Examiner, 7/1/2023
Republican lawmakers held a day of back-to-back public hearings in mid-April for bills that would add restrictions to receiving unemployment insurance payouts, ban local guaranteed income programs and prevent state agencies from automatically renewing low-income health insurance. 
A lead proponent testifying at the Capitol was a former Republican legislative aide representing a Florida-based advocacy group with no membership and tens of millions of anonymous donations. One Republican lawmaker noted it was the third time that afternoon that Adam Gibbs had spoken in favor of the bills, all which were aimed at dismantling the state’s social safety net. 
“Busy day in the Legislature,” replied Gibbs, communications director for the nonprofit Foundation for Government Accountability.

Here's the leadership team of the Democrats, Wisconsin's minority party in the legislature.



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