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1229, 01 Jan 20

Governor Evers Issues Record Number of Executive Orders

To be fair, I doubt he actually knew what half of these orders were for.

Gov. Tony Evers issued more executive orders in his first year than any other guv in Wisconsin history.

He signed 61 executive orders through mid-December. Not only is that a record for a first-year guv, but it’s more than any single calendar year going back to 1965, according to a WisPolitics.com review.

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said the number of executive orders was a sign that Evers has been “ineffective” in working with GOP lawmakers to pass bipartisan legislation. As an example, Fitzgerald cited an executive order the guv issued that replaced all references to “mental retardation” in state language with “intellectual disability” and “intellectually disabled.” Evers issued the order shortly before lawmakers released legislation to largely accomplish the same thing.

“He has completely failed to develop a relationship with the Legislature, even when he had numerous opportunities to do so,” Fitzgerald said, “He used one of those executive orders to purposely copy a piece of legislation that should have been an easy bipartisan win. I’m hopeful that we’ll start off better next year, but I’m not holding my breath.”

A spokesman for Evers didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment.

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More than a third of Evers’ executive orders were directives that flags at state buildings fly at half-staff. Beyond those 21 orders, 13 created committees, councils or advisory boards, and eight were for emergency declarations.

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1229, 01 January 2020

1 Comment

  1. Kevin Scheunemann

    Evers running around with PC executive orders.

    Before you know it we will not be able to call him a do nothing govenor, we will have to call him “action deprived”, or “accomplishment challenged”.

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