The County Board had another blunder today when they failed to override Walker’s veto of a study on the possibility of providing health care benefits for domestic partners of eligible employees.
Those voting against it used the meme that it would cost $3.9 million.
But there are a few factual errors [...]
The Milwaukee County Board will hold a vote today to either authorize or kill a study to look into the possibility of providing benefits for domestic partners of Milwaukee County employees.
True to form, my County Supervisor Lynne DeBruin decided to flip flop on the issue and voted against recommending to [...]
It is not something that I personally do very often, but I fully agree with the Editorial Board of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. A snippet of their editorial:
But recognizing that domestic partnerships are real commitments is what many businesses and governments are already doing; 150 public and private entities [...]
Score a victory for Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker, whose decision to veto a measure that would lay the groundwork for granting domestic partnership benefits to county employees was sustained on a 5-2 vote by members of the Milwaukee County Board’s Personnel Committee.
However, instead of taking the position that [...]
