- Looks like Evers has decided to replace the knife he brought to the gunfight with the legislature Archived Message
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on April 18, 2025, 20:33:33, in reply to "Politics 4/14 - 4/20"
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I don’t really love it as a matter of principle but the Wisconsin GOP has been ass raping principle for a decade. So Dems better start getting creative like this. The sentence, dull but clear, was buried 158 pages into Wisconsin’s budget. “For the limit for the 2023-24 school year and the 2024-25 school year,” the sentence read when it was passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature, “add $325” to the amount school districts could generate through property taxes for each student. But by the time Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, and his veto pen were finished, it said something else entirely: “For the limit for 2023-2425, add $325.” It was clever. Creative. Perhaps even a bit subversive, extending the increase four centuries longer than lawmakers intended. But was it legal? On Friday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court said yes. In a 4-to-3 ruling in a lawsuit challenging Mr. Evers’s use of his partial veto authority, the court’s liberal majority said the governor had acted legally. The three conservative justices on the court dissented. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/us/wisconsin-supreme-court-veto.html?unlocked_article_code=1.A08.tzWw.a6gxFLAro_Vt&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Also, fuck Elon |
- ATL April 19, 2025, 13:39:27