MADISON - Tony Evers pledged to push for abortion access, the expansion of Medicaid, and more public school funding when he was sworn in Tuesday for a second term as Wisconsin's 46th governor.
Evers, Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez, Attorney General Josh Kaul, state Treasurer John Lieber and Secretary of State Doug La Follette were inaugurated in the rotunda of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Republican lawmakers will hold ceremonies in the Assembly and Senate chambers today to swear in new members that will grow their powerful caucuses even larger.
"To take the oath as governor — an oath only 45 people have taken before me — is an extraordinary privilege," Evers said. "I know that not everyone who voted this past November agrees with me all the time, or belongs to the same party I do, or shares my same core values and beliefs. I know there are those who chose to cast their ballot this past November feeling the weight of a republic on the brink."
Evers was introduced by his granddaughter, Tessa Schoenecker, a college student who said the high youth voter turnout across the state was a decisive factor in Evers' victory.
The Nov. 8 reelections of the Democratic governor and Republicans to legislative majorities put Wisconsin's state government under split party control, a dynamic that produced an icy relationship over the last four years between the two branches but one that may be thawing now that Evers and GOP legislative leaders have begun their first discussions in years.
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