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Commentary on state politics by Bill Christofferson, who often uses Xofferson or Xoff to shorten his 14-letter last name.

Christofferson, a recovered journalist and ex-political reporter, has been a Democratic strategist and consultant for 20 years and is now retired. He lives in Milwaukee.
He is the author of a political biography, "The Man From Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Sen. Gaylord Nelson," published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

GOP plan would raise property taxes $357-million, slash UW, road, prison budgets

Posted June 16th, 2007 by xoff
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You didn't read that headline on Saturday's Journal Sentinel story.

Instead, the focus was on when Assembly Republicans first started to consider blocking passage of the state budget.

Under normal circumstances, in an objective report, this would appear to be the most important part of the story:

Not passing a budget, however, would require property taxes to rise by $357 million more than Doyle's budget proposes, the Legislative Fiscal Bureau estimated. A budget impasse also would halve the number of road projects and force large cuts in spending at prisons and the University of Wisconsin System, according to figures in a Fiscal Bureau memo requested by Assembly Republicans.

As we said earlier, this tactic is one that could blow up in the GOP's face.

UPDATE: Paul Soglin agrees.

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