Vos touts GOP-led Assembly's bipartisanship. The spin makes me ill.

GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has retweeted a self-serving item about his chamber's recent bi-partisan record. Speaker Robin Vos Retweeted

Wisconsin Assembly GOP

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Mar 6

According to the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau, the Assembly once again worked in a largely bipartisan fashion this legislative session. The Assembly passed 371 bills, with 94.1% of those bills receiving bipartisan support. See the entire memo: https://bit.ly/38wTR5y

Bi-Partisan?

These tweets are efforts to establish a self-serving and misleading narrative, as we know that a) Vos has publicly misrepresented Evers' gun safety bills, and B) Vos and his Senate ally Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald refused to hold hearings or votes on those issues - - all to extend their post-Walker-defeat lame-duck power grabs 


designed to diminish the incoming Democratic Governor and Attorney General's authority and standing.

Sound like the actions of a legislative leader interested in bi-partisanship?

And I'd add that headlines like this one tell the real story about Vos' commitment to bi-partisanship, and truth-telling:

GOP leader Robin Vos falsely claims Gov. Tony Evers made troops wait for greeting

Not to mention the GOP-led Assembly's recent, last-minute, closed-door and partisan sellout on crucial legislation to stem dangerous water contamination.

Democratic members tried unsuccessfully to replace the proposal with two bills...that would have spent about $7.7 million on efforts to slow PFAS contamination, research ways of destroying the contaminants and offer free blood tests to anyone living in PFAS-contaminated sites around Marinette, Peshtigo and Porterfield.

The bills, which faced considerable pushback from industry groups, did not make it to the Assembly floor.

Rep. Katrina Shankland, D-Stevens Point, said she was “disappointed, surprised and frustrated” by the measure put forth by Republicans, which came after a more than one-hour closed-door caucus session.

And if you click through the list in the highlighted link which Vos retweeted to make his case, and sample the full record of the votes, you will find items like the one below which gets a "bipartisan" ranking, though it appears that in the Vos-led-and-heavilg-gerrymandered Assembly currently divided 64 Republican to 35 Democratic, a single Democrat voted with Republicans, so thatmakes the 65-34 vote bipartisan [Sic]. 

C'mon.

Assembly Bill 895

An Act to amend 20.866 (1) (u); and to create 13.48 (20e), 20.866 (2) (zcv) and 20.867 (3) (cv) of the statutes; Relating to: construction of or improvements to indoor, athletic or aquatic athletic facilities, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Status: S - Health and Human Services

Important Actions (newest first)

Date / House	Action	Journal
2/28/2020 Sen.	Read first time and referred to committee on Health and Human Services	751
2/20/2020 Asm.	Read a third time and passed, Ayes 65, Noes 34