(Madison) The governor’s office reschedules a bill-signing ceremony. Governor Tony Evers will sign legislation co-authored by Joint Finance Committee co-chairs Senator Howard Marklein and Representative Mark Born of Beaver Dam Thursday.
The lawmakers accused Evers of a “blatant political move to purposely exclude us from the bill signing” originally scheduled for Wednesday, while the budget panel holds a public hearing in Waukesha.
In a statement, Evers spokesperson Britt Cudaback said the governor’s office does not “spend every waking minute obsessing over ways to irritate Republicans in the Legislature,” and that Marklein and Born could have just picked up the phone to request a rescheduling.
The bill provides the option of protective status classification for county jailers.
–Courtesy of WRN
