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| Sandy Duckett |
Sandy Duckett, vice president of college advancement, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College: “It’s very disheartening when we have some legislators who will sign on to a bill of this nature but…aren’t really understanding what that would mean for their local institutions.” |
| Dean Debroux |
Dean Debroux, special education teacher: “TABOR will devastate our public schools…TABOR will effectively boil the life out of our public schools and out of our communities.” |
| Charles Mize |
The Reverend Dr. Charles Mize, senior minister of Union Congregational United Church of Christ: “Why would we consider a measure that would hobble our government, and that means, hobble our common good, for personal gain?” |
| Ursula Bunnell |
Ursula Bunnell, director of client services with Goldenhouse in Brown County: “I think TABOR over time will result in a huge reduction in programs that now help the state of Wisconsin’s most neediest and most vulnerable citizens. The efforts to place strict limits on the growth of state and local government spending will inadvertently affect our overall economy and mostly…our working poor.” |
| Nate Petrasek |
Nate Petrasek, president of UW-Green Bay Student Government Association: “Ultimately it [TABOR] is going to affect the ability of students to achieve a higher education in Wisconsin. More and more students are going to be forced out and aren’t going to be able to attend college…” |
| Ann Peggs |
Ann Peggs, firefighter for the City of Green Bay: “The main thing that would happen initially with TABOR that we would foresee is that city officials would be forced to cut firefighters. And if there’s less firefighters, there’s less fire trucks and there’s less ambulances. And when there are less of those, there’s a longer response time to come to you in your home or at your business to fight the fire or to serve you if you have a life-threatening emergency…” |
| Nathan Sooy |
Nathan Sooy, leads Wisconsin Citizen Action’s Public Interest Program for Northeast Wisconsin: “How are these programs [such as BadgerCare] going to be adequately maintained if we are straight jacketed by TABOR?” |
| Dan Nerad |
Dan Nerad, superintendent of schools in the Green Bay Area Public School District: “We believe the Taxpayer’s Protection Act will erode the quality of Wisconsin’s public schools beyond what the current funding formula is doing…If our business leaders are recognizing, and they are, the critical need to increase educational attainment in our state, why would we want to compromise our ability to accomplish that mission by ratcheting down already limited resources?” |