City of Madison Budget

I think that with the budget plan that Mayor Soglin released was the sharp stick in the eye for Republicans. He said that he would save money by cutting snow plowing and salting. The Republicans who cut aid to the cities complained about the state of Madison roads a couple of winters ago. They felt that the State should take over plowing for the city of Madison. The Mayor may have just figured out how to cut the budget significantly by having the State take over plowing.

Fox News

I was traveling today (actually skiing) and had an opportunity to watch Fox's coverage of the protest in Madison and they were talking to Sen Hopper and he repeated the big lie to a national audience.  That is that the Senate was prepared to debate the bill but the Democrats left.  This is not true.  The Democrats left to stop the vote on the bill, there was no debate, there wasn't going to be any debate, just a vote that was going to be 19-14.  Now that is the truth.