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Dan Shafer Profile picture
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May 9 • 4 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Great to see so much recognition for #DayWithoutChildcare today from Democratic lawmakers in Wisconsin.

It’s really important that our legislators recognize how vital this issue is to families around Wisconsin.
Funding for Child Care Counts was *not* one of the 540+ policies Republicans voted out of the budget last week. Republican JFC co-chair Howard Marklein even said in a press conference that they’d heard a lot about child care during listening sessions, which seems significant.
But by no means does that mean this is over. Republicans have been wobbly on this issue, and many child care advocates were surprised that it made the first cut.
Last week on WTMJ Nights, I talked to Tricia Peterson and Renae Henning of Wisconsin Early Childhood Action Needed (WECAN). They talked about how much child care providers are relying on this funding to stay afloat.

Listen (commercial free!) here: recombobulationarea.substack.com/p/wtmj-nights-…

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May 8
Minnesota is about to pass paid leave.

In Wisconsin, paid leave has overwhelming majority support across the political spectrum.

Democrats: 95% in favor
Independents: 65%
Republicans: 62%

Republicans in the state legislature just voted this out of the budget last week.
Some Republicans were floating the possibility of enacting a paid leave policy after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Of course, they didn’t follow through in this initial vote. 

Perhaps that was just some typical campaign posturing?
heartlandsignal.com/2023/05/04/opi… Paid leave is another polic...
Over and over again, Wisconsin Republicans ignore the will of the people in this state. heartlandsignal.com/2023/05/04/opi…
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May 8
Facts to consider with the shared revenue debate: Wisconsin ranks last in the country in *state* spending on law enforcement and in the top ten in *municipal* spending on law enforcement. (h/t @WisPolicyForum)
@WisPolicyForum The city of Milwaukee ranks 2nd in the nation among America's 72 largest cities for % of its city funds spent on policing. vera.org/publications/w… Chart showing the top 10 ci...
From 2010 to 2020, police budgets took up 62% of every new dollar spent by the city of Milwaukee. urbanmilwaukee.com/2020/08/16/mil…
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May 7
This week, Wisconsin Republicans voted to remove more than 540 items from Gov. Evers’ proposed budget. We’ve accepted this total lack of bipartisanship as just part of the process in divided government.

They are also removing policies that have overwhelming majority support.
This week’s column is on that very issue, which is harming the state’s ability to get anything done. It’s also the type of policy that’s hurting Republicans as their statewide losses continue to mount. recombobulationarea.substack.com/p/republicans-…
So many of these policies Republicans are removing are consensus policies with overwhelming majority support. Items removed from the budg...
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May 6
Republicans in Madison have spent the last decade-plus consolidating power and money in the state legislature and now they have outsized power and are sitting on a $7 billion surplus that exists in large part because they’ve starved local government. It’s time to return it.
This has meant Milwaukee, the state’s largest and most diverse city, effectively has its municipal budget cut by $150 million *every year* and is now facing steep cuts.
Up to 25% of the city’s budget could be on the chopping block without a state solution. That could mean closing up to 10 library branches, shuttering MPD District 6 on the city’s south side, closing more than half of all fire stations, and eliminating nearly 900 jobs.
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Mar 22
The Wisconsin State Legislature is widely considered to be among, if not the most, gerrymandered state legislature in the nation.

In less than 2 weeks, the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court could finally change that.

THREAD

🧵🚨🧵🚨🧵
Wisconsin Republicans enjoy outsized, entrenched majorities in the state legislature. Even though Wisconsin is a 50-50 state and statewide elections are often decided by decimal points, Republicans hold more than 60% of seats in the Senate and Assembly.

It doesn’t add up!
This ultra-partisan gerrymander has profound ramifications for governing in Wisconsin.

These popular proposals:
❌ expanding Medicaid
❌ legalizing marijuana
❌ protecting abortion rights
❌ expanding background checks

All ignored completely.
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Mar 20
Foxconn is saying they're going to build EV batteries in Wisconsin. I'm sure they're serious this time! asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Supp…
I'm still holding out hope for their "Coffee Hauses"
cbs58.com/news/foxconn-w…
Anyway it's a good reminder that this was not just a one-off fluke, but the culmination of everything Republicans had been working toward. And it was a miserable, catastrophic failure. recombobulationarea.substack.com/p/landing-foxc…
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