Vos and fellow GOP/MAGA legislators have engaged in unconstitutional practices themselves by committing alleged criminal extortion by coercing UW-System Board of Regents to accept their deal on a vote of 11-6 to include extreme right conservatism inclusion in the higher education system in order to release $800M in taxpayer funding for pay raises and new building projects.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
December 14, 2023
Madison, Wisconsin - On Wednesday, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on a vote of 11-6 flip flop their vote to limit and freeze DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) positions and hiring until 2026 in order to get $800M of state funding for pay raises and construction of new buildings.
Word from the State legislature is that Vos and his GOP/MAGA legislators are facing multiple lawsuits for engaging in alleged extortion and coercion to include the conservative inclusion agenda at the UW-System in order to release State taxpayer funding already approved for municipalities, counties and townships without certain conditions.
According to State Representative Sylvia Ortiz-Velez (D-Milw) on Wednesday, faculty, employees and students of color would be affected, which indicates that the Roberto Hernández Center and the multi-cultural center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee that offer recruitment, retention and advising for students of color will most likely be phased out.
Definitely, the State GOP/MAGA is illegally legislating and adding stipulations (conditions) to the State approved budget funding for the UW-System in order to force a conservative inclusion agenda in the higher education system.
What's their next target, the Milwaukee Public School District and the Milwaukee Area Technical College?
The State GOP/MAGA previously succeeded in adding a stipulation without any legal challenge from the City of Milwaukee Common Council to eliminate the policy making of the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission in order to get additional share revenues and to increase the sales tax for the Common Council's pension. Smh, they also forced the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors to double their sales tax in order to get additional share revenues.
That's called alleged criminal extortion by coercion to force the conservative inclusion agenda at the UW-System, when the State legislature didn't pass any bills making it law to add attached stipulations to tax dollar funding already approved for use in the State by municipalities, counties and townships.
In other words, the GOP/MAGA legislature in Wisconsin is also engaging in political extortion by coercing the UW-System Board to accept the deal of extreme right conservatism inclusion in order to release their taxpayer funding to operate, pay raises and new building projects.
It definitely shows that White supremacy inclusion is alive and flourishing in Wisconsin!
Robin Vos, (R) the Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly on X twitted, "I'm glad they approved the compromise tonight despite reported last-minute lobbying by Gov Evers to scuttle the deal. We finally have turned the corner and gotten real reforms enacted. Republicans know this is just the first step in what will be our continuing efforts to eliminate these cancerous DEI practices on UW campuses."
WI Governor Tony Evers (D) on X twitted, This vote today represents a vast overreach by a group of Republicans who've grown exceedingly comfortable overextending, manipulating, and abusing their power to control, subvert, and obstruct basic functions of government. "Republicans are unconstitutionally obstructing UW pay raises and investments that were already discussed, negotiated, and approved in the biennial budget the Legislature passed and I signed in July- these never should've been part of this conversation, period, because Republicans need only choose to release today what we all approved of months ago. Wisconsin also has readily available state resources we could invest right now, today, in our UW System to prevent further closures and layoffs a fact of which legislative Republicans are more than well aware but refuse to do anything about, having rejected, for example, my proposed investments for the UW-Madison engineering building on two separate occasions already. Legislative Republicans similarly could have spent the last several months advancing the very legislation at issue in these negotiations but instead declined to exercise the singular constitutional authority unique to their branch of government- the ability to pass a bill.
"This exercise has been about one thing - the relentless political tantrums, ultimatums, and threats of retribution by legislative Republicans, most especially Speaker Robin Vos, his negotiation-by-bullying tactics, and general disdain for public education at every level.
"I disagree with the regents' decision today. I am disappointed and frustrated with this result, this proposal, and the process that led up to this point. It is also my expectation that every individual who promised in this process that the important work of building diversity, equity, and inclusion and making sure our campuses are welcoming and work for everyone would not be diminished by this action will be working in earnest to make good on that commitment. And I'm going to make damn sure that they do."
Video: UW-System Board of Regents Special Meeting on Vos/GOP conservative inclusion proposal (12/13/2023), how they voted at link: https://youtu.be/rYtQRB5EhBc
Regent Hector Colón from Milwaukee is the first regent to speak at minute 19 and 24 seconds in video and explains why he voted "Yes" for the coerced Vos/GOP conservative inclusion proposal. Also, Regent Jennifer Staton who is Hispanic voted "Yes". Colón and Staton are the only two Hispanics on the Board of Regents.
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