Here’s the back-story. In order to save a few bucks, Governor Doyle included a provision in his budget to roll back Jessica’s Law. Under Jessica’s law, which was enacted in Wisconsin just a couple years ago, sex predators who prey on children must be tracked in real time using a GPS devise once they are released from prison. This provision would gut the law, eliminating the requirement that these offenders be tracked with GPS in real time.
How did Rep. Garthwaite vote on this provision? He was the deciding vote to kill the amendment (AA 23 to AB 75) that would have maintained real-time tracking of child sex predators.
I’m not a statistician, but I’m guessing that about 95% of people in Grant County disagree with Phil’s vote. It goes to show you that when push comes to shove Rep. Garthwaite can’t be counted on to vote for the people of Southwest, Wisconsin when his Democrat Party leadership in Madison stands in the way.
In fact, the same night that Rep. Garthwaite was the deciding vote to gut Wisconsin’s toughest anti-sex offender law, he voted with his Madison leadership against a whole host of other amendments that would have benefited the people of SW WI.
- He voted against fully funding dam repairs (AA 70 to AB 75) to help prevent and minimize the type of floods that hit Bagely .
- He voted against funding urgently necessary bridge repairs in Grant County (AA 69 to AB 75) that would have been paid for by eliminating pork projects such as garbage bins for Wrightstown or $100,000 grant to repair a stone barn in Oconto.
- He voted against increasing scarcity aids for nearly all of our school districts in SW Wisconsin and instead voted to send the money to Milwaukee (AA 130 to AB 75).
In each of these cases and many more, Rep. Garthwaite had to make a choice between his constituents and his Madison leadership team. In every single case he chose his leadership over his district.
So much for that “60-40 Democrat-Republican voting record” you always brag about huh Phil?
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