Jon Erpenbach
Jon Erpenbach is a Democratic member of the Wisconsin state Senate. He was elected to a Madison-area district in 1998.
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The push for high-speed internet for rural areas, from the start, “was a Democratic thing.”
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“Wisconsin is 49th in public health spending.”
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"There’s no strings attached to that money that we’d be getting as an incentive to expand Medicaid."
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"If out-of-state drivers paid gas tax, they would contribute $73 million to fix our roads"
Says Scott Walker "said he wouldn't touch" the state civil service system but now supports overhauling it.
"In general, it appears" Wisconsin’s right to work bill would "likely apply to" the Green Bay Packers players and their union.
Says Gov. Scott Walker has "led people to believe that if Wisconsin doesn’t implement a (health-care) exchange, Obamacare doesn’t happen here."
When it comes to urgency on passing a budget repair bill, "there’s no rush on this thing" because the fiscal year doesn’t end until June…