Saturday’s Janesville Gazette contained a column titled “Compromise Budget Invests In Priorities” written by State Rep. Brett Davis. In it he explains that on Oct. 15th, he was the only Republican to vote in favor of the Governors special session budget, and that it’s time legislators put the people of their districts above party politics. Nowhere in his article did Davis mention the $4 million soybean crusher he captured from state taxpayers for his district. Perhaps he doesn’t have to.
Although Davis makes it sound like his conservative base was upset by his pacifying vote, his vote was meant to be irrelevant from the start. In no way should democrats think this guy is some kind of a “people” legislator. He is a Republican who happened to find himself in that rare compromising position all pork spenders only wish for, where they can ”reluctantly” take a $4 million piece of state pork and cook it up as the cost of bipartisanship. Do you think republicans in his district will vote against him in the next election? Not a chance.
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