Evers sues GOP lawmakers for blocking UW employee raises, other 'legislative vetoes'
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Gov. Tony Evers is suing Republican state lawmakers who are blocking UW employee pay raises, conservation projects and updates to commercial building standards. The suit claims legislators are violating the Wisconsin Constitution's seperation of powers through "legislative vetoes" by a handful of powerful committees.
  • Stanard@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    For those out of the loop, my understanding is that the speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly (lower house in Wisconsin), Robin Vos ® has declared that he will not allow any raises for anyone working for the University of Wisconsin system unless and until the UW system gets rid of any and all diversity initiatives. The UW system consists of 13 public universities with campuses across the state, one of which has a cutting edge hospital system, namely UW health in Madison. This has been going on since at least mid September.

    This is the same man and party that has/is also (not an exhaustive list):

    • Threatening to oust general election commissioner of Wisconsin
    • Threaten and create taxpayer funded panels seeking to impeach the newly elected, pro-choice Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz (D) that swapped the majority of the Supreme Court just after Roe v Wade was overturned
    • Hand-picked an investigator to investigate the 2020 election, then 14 months later fired said investigator. But not before nearly 1 million dollars was recorded being spent from taxpayer dollars