"I have no regrets" -- Gov. Evers comments on controversial 400-year education veto

"I have no regrets" -- Gov. Evers comments on controversial 400-year education veto

GREEN BAY, Wis. — In a WTMJ exclusive interview, Governor Tony Evers made his first public comment on a controversial education veto since the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld it last week. Wisconsin’s Afternoon News host John Mercure caught up with Gov. Evers at the NFL Draft in Green Bay on Thursday: “When you look at what a small difference it makes in the whole budget, I have no regrets,” he told WTMJ. The partial veto extends an annual $325 p…

Liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court Affirms Evers' 400-Year Property Tax Increase - WMC Wisconsin's Chamber

Last week, the now-liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld 4-3 a controversial veto from Gov. Tony Evers in the state budget. The partial veto increased the property tax levy limit for school districts for 400 years, four centuries longer than the Legislature’s intent.The WMC Litigation Center represented two taxpayers in the lawsuit, arguing the governor’s move was an overstep because he increased appropriations by striking individual digits to …