Mike Tate on Dennis Smith Resignation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, February 22, 2013
CONTACT: Graeme Zielinski, WisDems Communications Director
(414) 364-1077graemezatwisdems [dot] org

BREAKING: Scott Walker's Health Care Czar Resigns

MADISON -- News is breaking that Scott Walker's healthcare czar, Dennis Smith, is resigning his position as DHS secretary. Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate released the following statement:

“From day one, Dennis Smith was more interested in an extreme ideology than in advocating for the health and well-being of Wisconsinites.

“In Washington, D.C., Smith was the mastermind of some of the Tea Party’s most radical public health policies, including outright advocacy against Medicare and Medicaid and Wisconsin’s successful SeniorCare program, and he brought that same extremism with him to Madison.

“Starting with a plan to kick 30,000 kids off healthcare, thwarted only by the Obama administration, Smith sought the kind of deep cuts that would lead to massive shortfalls in public health programs and leave thousands of Wisconsinites uninsured.

“And in what would prove to be his finale in Wisconsin, Dennis Smith helped Scott Walker reject a plan that would have created 10,000 jobs, saved the state $66 million and expanded healthcare to 175,000 Wisconsinites.

“Wisconsin’s next DHS secretary has the opportunity to turn the page on this unprecedented assault on BadgerCare. I hope for all Wisconsin families, she takes it.”

View this release online at:

http://www.wisdems.org/news/press/view/2013-02-breaking-scott-walkers-health-care-czar-resigns

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Planned Parenthood announces closures

Note the full press release in PDF form is attached below.

 

For Immediate Release                                                                                              Contact: Stephanie Wilson

February 18, 2013                                                                                                            608-256-7549 x 2132

 

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Announces Health Center Closures

State Budget Cut Forces Planned Parenthood to Close four Health Centers in Shawano, Chippewa Falls, Johnson Creek, and Beaver Dam

 

MADISON- Today Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin announced the closure of four family planning health centers in Shawano, Chippewa Falls, Johnson Creek and Beaver Dam between April and July of this year. These closures are a direct consequence of the Legislature’s elimination of funding benefiting patients at Planned Parenthood in the last budget cycle. Over the past year, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin worked to minimize the impact of the Legislature’s significant budget cuts on our patients. Despite efforts to sustain services to these patients for over a year without state funding, Planned Parenthood has been forced to end health care services in these four health centers. These unfortunate health center closures will result in the disruption and a loss of over 11,400 health care services for approximately 2,000 patients including lifesaving cancer screenings, breast exams, birth control, annual exams, pregnancy tests, STD testing and treatment, HIV screening, and referrals to a network of community resources. Planned Parenthood will maintain health care services in 23 health centers across the state.

 

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Ed Fallone Press Release on Supreme Court Security Plan

February 18, 2013                                                               Contact: Nate Schwantes
For Immediate Release                                                                       (262) 353-1521  
Fmr. Chief of Capitol Police Confirms Security Plan to Protect Justices Milwaukee - Ed Fallone, Candidate for the Supreme Court had this to say about the confirmation of a Capitol Police security plan before the Justice Prosser incident:

This weekend’s revelations by former Capitol Police Chief Charles Tubbs confirm that heightened security measures were taken to protect court members from workplace threats as far back as March 2011.

It’s becoming increasingly clear that Justice Roggensack is in denial that the Court is dysfunctional, continuing to say that "everything is fine."  If Justice Roggensack is unwilling to admit the truth and hold fellow justices accountable for their actions, then it’s time to elect a Supreme Court Justice who will.

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