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Wisconsin Republicans to vote down medical and recreational marijuana, other Gov Tony Evers state budget proposals
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Legal pot in Wisconsin, budget items face GOP rejection
By Scott Bauer
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin Republicans plan to vote next week to kill key parts of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers state budget proposal, including legalizing medical and recreational marijuana, expanding Medicaid to capture $1.6 billion in federal funding and granting collective bargaining rights to public workers.
The move, announced Friday, is no surprise and follows what the GOP-controlled Legislature did two years ago to Gov. Evers first budget.
The Legislature s budget-writing Joint Finance Committee will vote Thursday on removing a 15-page list of nearly 300 items from the budget before they then work on rebuilding a two-year spending plan from scratch.
MADISON - The board that oversees the University of Wisconsin System now has a majority of regents appointed by Gov. Tony Evers after the Democratic governor tapped a Fox Valley health system leader to join the panel.
Evers on Friday appointed Ashok Rai, CEO and president of Prevea Health, to join the UW Board of Regents giving the governor a majority on the 18-member board. As we work to ensure our state recovers and bounces back better than before this pandemic hit, we need to be supporting and investing in our UW campuses and students and our state s future,” Evers, who served on the board as state superintendent between 2009 and 2017, said in a statement.
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MADISON - Republicans who control the Legislature s budget-writing committee plan to strip out nearly 400 items from Gov. Tony Evers two-year state spending plan, including his priorities of expanding Medicaid, legalizing marijuana and freezing enrollment in private voucher schools.
The move also will remove solutions Evers called for to long-standing problems in Wisconsin: like the closure of the state s youth prison where staff and teen inmates have been physically abused and the creation of statewide standards for the amount of toxic chemicals allowed in drinking water.
The two-year state budget plan also won t allow the University of Wisconsin System to borrow for operational expenses, restore collective bargaining for public employees, make Juneteenth a state holiday, create a so-called red flag law for gun owners or adopt maps from the governor s redistricting commission.
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