Wisconsin Republicans: The white male party of NO NO NO NO NO

 

Headline:  Milwaukee Courier, 7/7/2023

Photos:  Wisconsin Senate, Wisconsin  Assembly

Wisconsin’s small communities could obtain slices of the billions of federal dollars allocated for infrastructure and renewable energy projects, such as upgrading drinking water systems or purchasing electric buses. 

But the Republican-controlled Legislature has rejected a recent proposal to help staff-strapped towns and villages circumvent the greatest barriers for bringing home such funds: the federal government’s time-consuming application and record-keeping requirements.

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Bashing public education, promoting discrimination, part 3.  (6/1)

May 2023

Bashing public education, promoting discrimination, part 2.  (5/31)

Bashing public education, promoting discrimination, part 1.  (5/28)

Family leave freakout.  (5/23/2023)

Here's the legacy the "lock-'em-up" prison mentality of Wisconsin's GOP legislative leaders.  (5/23)

Wisconsin GOP legislative leaders show their true colors with efforts to defund campus diversity offices.  (5/21/)

Wisconsin GOP legislative leaders decide transgender athlete ban is top priority.  (5/11)

Wisconsin GOP remain in Dark Ages when it comes to legalization of marijuana.  (5/3)

Local control?  It's the Wisconsin GOP favorite toilet seat!  (5/2)

April 2023

Wisconsin GOP fights crime and inflation with dog whistle legislation.  (4/26)

Wisconsin GOP leadership fights crime and inflation by putting up barriers to health care.  (4/17)

Wisconsin GOP leadership blows on the unemployment benefits dog whistle.  (4/11)

March 2023

Your Wisconsin GOP state legislative leadership at work (transgender assault edition).  (3/26)

Wisconsin GOP leadership remains adamantly opposed to reproductive rights.  (3/22)

Wisconsin GOP leadership promotes a no transparency workplace.  (3/21)

Wisconsin GOP leadership drags its heels on legalization while residents go elsewhere to buy weed.  (3/17)

February 2023

Wisconsin GOP leadership fights crime and inflation by ignoring Black priorities and promoting voter suppression.  (2/15)

Wacky white Wisconsin GOP boys club once against demonstrates its inability to govern.  (2/12)

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Spineless Wisconsin GOP leadership unable to build support for medical marijuana.  (2/1)

2022
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Environmental Protection is a low priority for the all-white, all-male Wisconsin GOP leadership.  (10/1)

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Reproductive rights? Fuggedaboudit! What else would you expect from these Wisconsin GOP Gomers? (8/27)

Meet the 4 lapdog judges on the Wisconsin Supreme Court at the beck and call of the GOP. (7/11)

Distrust of elections? What about contempt for Wisconsin's all-white, all-male GOP leadership?. (3/28)

Apparently, the all-white, all-male Wisconsin GOP leadership must think they're something special.  (3/8)