http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/scott-walker-to-sign-budget-in-waukesha-day-before-2016-announcement-b99536371z1-314340921.html

.....In other vetoes, Walker eliminated a total of more than $1 million in grants for groups such as the Ice Age Trail Alliance, Gathering Waters Conservancy, Natural Resources Foundation, Great Lakes Timber Professionals Association and the River Alliance of Wisconsin.

He also vetoed a plan that would have created a Frank Lloyd Wright Heritage Trail that showed drivers on Wisconsin highways how to get to landmarks the famed architect designed. Along with it, he removed a $500,000 grant that would have been used to promote the trail.

Walker also used his veto powers to:

■Make changes to an overhaul of the state's long-term care programs known as Family Care and IRIS. Those elements dictated the process used to make sure rates paid to integrated health agencies were sound, specified the state had to have at least five regions for the programs, and put limits on when open enrollment periods could be held for the programs.

The changes clear the way for Walker to establish one statewide program if he wants, instead of having it carved into regions. That would make it difficult for existing regional nonprofit entities to continue participating in the program and make it more likely that national for-profit corporations would.

Half-Century Man

(5,279 posts)

2. If he pats himself on the back any harder, he'll dislodge his head from his ass.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sun Jul 12, 2015, 09:30 PM

Jul 2015

I have always wondered if so many of these egregious aid-ins that happen so often in modern Wisconsin politics, the ones that regularly get leaked and generate so much outrage, are not there to provide our Blue-Light-Special Governor with an appearance of compassion. To make him seem not to be so sociopathic.

Pharaoh

(8,209 posts)

4. ^^yep^^

Reply to Half-Century Man (Reply #2)

Sun Jul 12, 2015, 11:16 PM

Jul 2015

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

5. Bingo!

Reply to Half-Century Man (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 13, 2015, 06:48 AM

Jul 2015

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