Governor's Budget Draws Positive Reviews

Gov. Jim Doyle's budget proposal is drawing positive reviews throughout Wisconsin and from an unexpected source.

The governor is visiting schools and talking to the public about his education proposals.

Senator Mike Ellis, a Republican leader, told the Appleton Post-Crescent that he supports Doyle's budget and that fellow Republicans are placing politics before policy.

"This is the best proposed property tax mechanism that could have been designed in Madison," Ellis said, according to the newspaper.

Ellis called the governor's property tax freeze proposal "mathematically honest, workable and far superior" to the Republican plan.

Ellis accused fellow Republicans of ramming their plan through because they know the governor will veto it.

"They don't care about resolving a problem," he told the newspaper. "They want to keep it a political issue. I am convinced."

Posted February 14, 2005

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