Late last night, organizers of the Wausau Labor Day parade backed off their earlier demands that no Republicans participate in the event.
According to the Wausau Daily Herald, an emailed statement from Randy Radtke, the head of the Marathon County Labor Council, announced the change of plans “because we don’t want to have community groups and school bands affected.”
His statement also read:
“We didn’t start this fight in Wisconsin, but were responding to anti-worker positions and policies supported by local Republican politicians, including those who have complained about not being invited… With the track records that Pam Galloway, Sean Duffy, Scott Walker, and Jerry Petrowski have all put together this year, they should be ashamed to even show their faces at a Labor Day parade.”
Earlier yesterday, Wausau Mayor Jim Tipple had told the group it would be responsible for paying for insurance and police officers to provide traffic as the city could not take on those costs if the event discriminated. That could have cost the Labor Council up to $2,300.
There’s no word this morning on whether those aforementioned Republicans will take part in the Monday march.
SERVICE MEMBERS AND CUSTODY
A measure to protect the parental rights of service members will receive its first public hearing tomorrow in the Assembly Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs.
Assembly Bill 66 has both Republican and Democratic sponsors. It would prohibit a court from “modifying a legal custody order if a party is a service member while the service member is on active duty in the U.S. armed forces.”
Under the measure, active-duty service members, who have joint custody agreements with their ex-spouses, would be able to ask a judge to modify the physical placement of their children while they’re away to include a possible third party of their choosing.
The hearing takes place Thursday morning at 10 in room 417 North at the State Capitol.
NO RESIGNATION
Sheboygan Mayor Bob Ryan says he will not resign from office despite what The Sheboygan Press described as a”a three-day binge in Elkhart Lake that included a barroom brawl that drew police to the scene, passing out at a bar and reportedly making lewd comments to women.”
Ryan told a bank of cameras, with his wife and two little children behind him, that he had
Bob Ryan News Conference/The Sheboygan Press
been sober for 37 days since the July incident. He said he’d accomplished a lot in his two years as mayor and that he was looking forward to continuing to work to bring more jobs to Sheboygan.
He also said if he took another drink of alcohol, he would immediately resign.
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