Sen. Jeff Smith Calls Out GOP for Bait-and-Switch on State Budget

Breaking the Two Party Monopoly

Dale Schultz and Dave Mahoney have a good idea. Like a lot of good ideas it faces a hard road ahead.  Schultz, the former Republican state senator, and Mahoney, the former Democratic Dane County sheriff, have formed a third party they call United Wisconsin.  But it’s unlike other third parties, which come and go, and which usually act only as spoilers — if they can even manage that much. Instead, what they intend is a party that would not nomina…

Sen. Jeff Smith Calls Out GOP for Bait-and-Switch on State Budget

It’s a budget bait-and-switch. State Sen. Jeff Smith (D-Eau Claire) is calling out majority Republicans for not being transparent about getting public input on the state’s next biennial budget. The Joint Finance Committee recently finished holding four public hearings around Wisconsin, but Smith points out that nobody there could actually comment on what the final budget bill is likely to be since Republicans haven’t written it yet. Smith says i…

14 Republicans Join Democrats in Bait-and-Switch Gas Tax Hike

(Chuck Muth) – I worked my butt off last year to keep Democrats from getting a super-majority in the Nevada State Senate and Assembly so Democrats wouldn’t have the 2/3 needed to pass tax hikes and override Gov. Joe Lombardo’s vetoes. Republicans successfully stayed out of a super-minority in the Senate and got out...