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“Why are we spending $8 million on advertising to persuade people to come back to Wisconsin?” State Senate Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling, D-La Crosse, asked on Jan. 24. We check out her claim that the state will spend $8 million on advertising to persuade people to come back to the state.
Republican Leah Vukmir tweeted on Jan. 24 that since Republicans took control of the legislative and executive branches of government in 2011, they have saved Wisconsin taxpayers more than $8 billion. The Observatory addressed the claim to see if the Republican-controlled government has already saved taxpayers more than $8 billion since the party took control in 2011.
The plan has split state political leaders on the value of the $3 billion taxpayer subsidy to the Taiwanese flat-screen plant in southeastern Wisconsin
Both of the recounts in Wisconsin did not change the original outcome and history shows this is usually the case. Yet both parties assure that recounts are vital.
In an Oct. 26 op-ed for The Cap Times, state Sen. Jennifer Shilling, D-La Crosse, criticized Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-run Legislature for failing to address a range of problems at two state-run facilities, including the King Veterans Home. Specifically, Shilling attributed the King nursing facility’s poor conditions and staff shortages to profits transferred from the home for other uses. “Instead of approving $18 million in facility repairs and upgrades, the governor diverted $12 million from the veterans nursing home fund to backfill budget deficits. Republican leaders are set to raid another $18 million from King over the next two years,” Shilling wrote.
The Observatory verified that Wisconsin has a 4.2 percent unemployment rate but Tom Tiffany’s District 12 tells a different story.
Senator Luther Olsen accurately claimed the state Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee secured $200 million more in K-12 funding than Walker’s initial 2015-17 budget called for, but a significant portion is used for property tax relief and private school vouchers.
Steve Doyle doesn’t believe the state voucher program should expand in his district because quality schools already exist. Are all schools in the 94th district meeting state expectations?
Funding for transportation projects in Wisconsin is always a contentious topic. Some areas of the state tend to get more attention than others, but when it comes to determining how bad Wisconsin’s roads really are, there answer is anything but clear cut.
Quinn’s statement on Wisconsin veterans in the workforce contained one truth and one fact that was a bit off