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turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:28 PM Oct 2018

GOP lawmaker busted for lying about his massive education cuts

By Oliver Willis - October 23, 20180
Wisconsin students are still paying the price for what Dale Kooyenga and his fellow Republicans did to them.

Wisconsin state Rep. Dale Kooyenga is already under fire for denying clear video evidence that he was drunk on the job — and now he’s misleading voters about the harmful spending cuts that he and other Republicans have made to education.

During a recent debate with Democrat Julie Henszey, his opponent for an open state Senate seat, Kooyenga claimed that “there has not been a cut to education” since he has been on the Joint Finance Committee, which writes the state budget.

That’s false.

According to the Legislature’s nonpartisan budget agency, Republicans actually slashed funding for the University of Wisconsin twice while Kooyenga served on the finance committee: a $66 million cut in the 2013-15 budget, and a $250 million cut in the 2015-17 budget.

The Wisconsin State Senate Democratic Committee (SSDC) almost immediately slammed Kooyenga for his deception in a press release.

https://shareblue.com/dale-kooyenga-wisconsin-senate-lies-education-spending-cuts/

And in the article they say this "guy" was drunk.........................hear for yourself

https://shareblue.com/dale-kooyenga-denies-drunk-floor-speech-video/

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GOP lawmaker busted for lying about his massive education cuts (Original Post) turbinetree Oct 2018 OP
They're getting so desperate Ohiogal Oct 2018 #1
They are losing.......................and they know it................. turbinetree Oct 2018 #2
He has a voting record, yet he lies. Just like Trump!! geesh!! riversedge Oct 2018 #3
Geez cut him some slack. He was probably drunk while he voted for the cuts. denverbill Oct 2018 #4
they all lie as easily as they breathe demtenjeep Oct 2018 #5

Ohiogal

(32,006 posts)
1. They're getting so desperate
Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:32 PM
Oct 2018

now they're taking a page from Dumpy's playbook and telling bald faced lies.

turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
2. They are losing.......................and they know it.................
Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:38 PM
Oct 2018

Donny Deutsch is coming out with a Democratic party ad in a couple of days to call out every republican nationalist, that he announced on Ari Melber tonight , and he said these republicans need to be called out as liars.............


denverbill

(11,489 posts)
4. Geez cut him some slack. He was probably drunk while he voted for the cuts.
Tue Oct 23, 2018, 09:17 PM
Oct 2018

People do stupid shit while they are drunk.

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