We have real hope
Imagine for a moment that Tim Michaels had defeated Governor Evers. Imagine Dan Kelly elected in April rather than Justice Janet. As governor, Michaels would have gone along with everything our gerrymandered legislature wanted in the recent budget. Dan Kelly would have been happy to lock into place the ridiculously gerrymandered maps imposed in 2021, and he would have aggressively defended Wisconsin’s onerous 1849 law that abolishes women’s right to safe and legal reproductive health care in our state.
It didn’t happen! Instead, with your hard work and help from other progressives around the state, we now have a second term for Governor Evers (now known as two-term Tony!), and hope is on the horizon for a reasonable Supreme Court. We now have real hope that we can restore women's rights, overturn the gerrymander, protect LBGTQ+ rights, and much more.
On July 5, Governor Evers used the incredible power of the Wisconsin governor’s veto pen to restore funding for public schools (for 400 years!), eliminate a huge tax cut for the wealthy, delete Republican language in the budget that would have eliminated essential positions within the University of Wisconsin system, and many other partial vetoes important to everyday Wisconsin citizens.
In essence, Evers used the veto to stamp the Republican budget “Incomplete.” He was able to fund our schools and provide significant increases to municipal revenue sharing while creating a $3.5 billion surplus. He then invited the Republicans to continue budget deliberations and restore things like support for childcare and many other programs designed to help regular folks that he’d included in his original budget, which were of course deleted by Republicans who favored those massive tax cuts to the wealthy over helping regular Wisconsinites.
Because of your contributions and hard work, St. Croix County was a swing county in the last two elections that brought us a second term for Gov Evers and a champion on the Supreme Court, Justice Janet. And in our local elections we helped elect some excellent, common sense local government and school board candidates.
We can build on what we’ve accomplished and do it again. We start locally with the Spring 2024 local elections, and we gear up for the big national and state elections in November of 2024. We’re thinking big. Let’s turn SCC blue. Talk to any one of our amazing St. Croix County Democrats leaders to find out how you can help.
For more on Evers’s partial veto, check out the Wisconsin Examiner.
