MADISON - Tony Evers plans to pledge to push for abortion access, the expansion of Medicaid, and more public school funding when he is sworn in Tuesday for a second term as Wisconsin's 46th governor, according to Evers' prepared remarks.
Evers will be inaugurated in the rotunda of the Wisconsin State Capitol just before Republican lawmakers are set to hold ceremonies in the Assembly and Senate chambers to swear in new members that will grow their powerful caucuses even larger.
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.
"To take the oath as governor — an oath only 45 people have taken before me — is an extraordinary privilege. And not just because a so-called 'boring' former science teacher managed to end up here, but because each time this oath is taken is a profound display of democracy," Evers said, according to prepared remarks released to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
"One much like the fundamental right to cast a ballot; like the right to have fair and secure elections, free from interference by politicians; like the fidelity to each other to willfully return borrowed power when it’s no longer ours to bear; and much like the responsibility to serve...
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