There were times in recent years in which the Wisconsin Assembly couldn’t have mustered 91 votes to pass a resolution confirming the sun rises in the east. Lingering bitterness over the 2011 public-employee collective bargaining bill and the related recall elections that followed widened divides that often separate Democrats and Republicans in the Legislature. Lawmakers are people, too, so there was no shortage of bruised feelings in the Capitol.
The 91-2 Assembly vote in support of a bill to create a state-leveraged venture capital program may represent the beginning of a less rancorous era (or, at least, a brief respite). Democrats and Republicans will continue to disagree on many issues — school vouchers and tax cuts being current examples — but it now may be OK to occasionally agree without penalty.
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