Thank You Scott Walker for handing Democrats another gift against recalled Republicans, Vouchers. Se

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"Both Olsen and Cowles are targets of recall efforts..."


http://democurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2011/05/thank-you-scott-walker-for-handing.html
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Thank You Scott Walker for handing Democrats another gift against recalled Republicans, Vouchers. Sen. Mike Ellis and Rob Cowles didn’t see it coming!!! Were they out of the state?

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Olsen and Cowles are both up for recall, so it’ll be interesting to see them explain to concerned families why they have their reservations, but…all the while their opponents rightfully attack them on the issue.

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jsonline: The GOP president of the state Senate said Wednesday he was concerned about Gov. Scott Walker’s push to expand a Milwaukee-style school voucher program into Green Bay, Racine and Beloit.

Sen. Mike Ellis (R-Neenah) was one of several Republican senators giving a lukewarm reaction to Walker's proposal … .........................

“We have problems with the elimination of the income threshold because the idea behind this program was to help poverty-stricken students who don’t have the wherewithal to go to private school," Ellis said in a brief interview. “This is a complete blowing up of that concept. Throw this (new proposal) in and I have to do some serious thinking about the rest of this.”

“I’m amazed at this. I didn’t see this coming,” Ellis said.

Sen. Luther Olsen of Ripon, a key GOP lawmaker on education issues, said "I'm not interested in dumping something on them that they say, 'No, we're not interested in having this,'" Olsen said.

Sen. Rob Cowles (R-Green Bay) said he was surprised by the proposal, didn't know much about it.
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Posted by John Peterson, Democurmudgeon at 5/11/2011 02:13:00 PM:9 :9 :9 :9 :9 :9 :9 :9 :9 :9 :9 :popcorn:

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1. Are they kidding?

Don't they read a newspaper? This has been written about over and over again in my local paper, so I can't believe it wasn't in the news in Racine, Green Bay or Beloit.