{"id":2587,"date":"2023-05-04T20:50:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T20:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2023-05-04T21:01:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T21:01:48","slug":"evers-rejects-leaders-in-his-own-party-opposing-bipartisan-plan-to-help-wisconsin-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2587","title":{"rendered":"Evers Rejects Leaders in His Own Party, Opposing Bipartisan Plan to Help Wisconsin Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/evers-rejects-leaders-in-his-own-party-opposing-bipartisan-plan-to-help-wisconsin-communities\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Assembly<\/p>\n

Gov. Tony Evers is thumbing his nose at top Democratic leaders in his own party, opposing a bipartisan plan to help Wisconsin communities that they say is necessary for Milwaukee\u2019s success. <\/p>\n

Republican leaders in the state Legislature are slamming Evers for publicly opposing a bipartisan plan<\/a> to increase shared revenue by at least 10% to all Wisconsin communities, a proposal being pushed by Milwaukee\u2019s top Democratic officeholders as well as top Republicans in the state Legislature.<\/p>\n

Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) and Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu (R-Oostburg) released the following statement after Evers promised to veto the plan, which would fix the state\u2019s shared revenue formula and allow Milwaukee to increase its sales tax (if voters agree in a referendum) to take care of a massive looming pension liability.<\/p>\n

Evers said on May 4, 2023, that he can not support the plan because \u201cit\u2019s not enough,\u201d even though top members of his own party support the proposal.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter several weeks of meetings and negotiations with all parties involved \u2013 Democrats, Republicans, towns, villages, cities and counties \u2013 we reached a shared revenue proposal we believe the public will support,\u201d Vos and LeMahieu wrote.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson and Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley have publicly touted the legislative plan. When they announced the plan, the bipartisan group struck a rare show of unity \u2013 but Evers won\u2019t go along with the bipartisanship.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very disappointing to come so close to the finish line only to have the Governor publicly issue veto threats because he wants to spend more money,\u201d Vos and LeMahieu said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most pressing issue here is the bankruptcy Milwaukee will face if this bill does not pass. This is a disappointing move by Governor Evers. He should reconsider and work with us before the bill is brought to the floor of the Assembly,\u201d the legislative leaders wrote.<\/p>\n

We previously wrote about the plan, which also prevents local governments from defunding police and unelected bureaucrats from closing down businesses for more than 14 days without approval of elected officials who are accountable to the public.<\/p>\n

At the press conference announcing the plan, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley said the plan represented a \u201cresetting of the relationship\u201d between Milwaukee officials and the Republican-controlled state Legislature. He thanked Republican officials for being willing to work with Milwaukee. Republican state Rep. Tyler August called the plan a \u201cgenerational change in the way we fund local governments.\u201d He said people from \u201cdifferent political backgrounds actually sat down and did the hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sales tax will allow the city of Milwaukee to make investments in our pension system,\u201d Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson said in the afternoon news conference. <\/p>\n

Vos said that \u201cone of the best parts of the deals\u201d is a requirement that will ensure the number of Milwaukee police officers will not go down. He called that a \u201chuge benefit for the state.\u201d Vos said the previous shared revenue formula was \u201creally outdated.\u201d He promised that \u201cevery single community in Wisconsin is going to get a guaranteed 10% increase in the shared revenue they receive.\u201d<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not enough for Evers, who has veto power over the plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/evers-rejects-leaders-in-his-own-party-opposing-bipartisan-plan-to-help-wisconsin-communities\/ Gov. Tony Evers is thumbing his nose at top…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}