Gov. Tony Evers:
So, today I am announcing, excuse me, a provision I'll be including in the biennial budget to require the Legislature to give the people of Wisconsin a pathway to enshrine the will of the people. It's no secret that since I took office, Republican legislators have repeatedly ignored the will of the people of Wisconsin, a majority of whom support proposals like restoring role and access to safe legal abortion, legalizing and taxing marijuana like we do alcohol, funding our public schools, and implementing common-sense gun safety reform, among many other issues. Instead, Republican lawmakers have repeatedly worked to put constitutional amendments on the ballot that Republicans drafted, Republicans passed, all while Republicans refuse to give that same power to the people that we serve. That's wrong — Republican lawmakers shouldn't be able to ignore the will of the people and then prevent the people from having a voice when their legislators fail to listen. We have to change that. If Republican lawmakers are going to continue to try and legislate by constitutional amendment, then they should give Wisconsinites the same opportunity that 26 other states have, it's that simple.