2024 WI Legislative Scorecard
The following scorecard lists several key votes in the Wisconsin State Legislature in 2024 and ranks state assemblymen and senators based on their fidelity to (U.S.) constitutional and limited-government principles.
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Senate Votes
SB166 removes “gender-specific” language from Article 133 of the Wisconsin Code of Military Justice, which prohibits “conduct unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman.”
The Senate passed SB166 on September 14, 2023, by unanimous consent. We have assigned minuses to the ayes because this bill replicates a “gender-neutral” modification to the Uniform Code of Military Justice made by a Democrat-led Congress in 2021, following President Joe Biden’s executive order on “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce.” Neither Congress nor the Legislature have any business advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), especially in the armed forces. The Wisconsin National Guard’s mission is to provide well-trained and equipped soldiers and airmen ready to fight and protect the lives, liberty, and property of their fellow citizens. Disgraceful “woke” efforts to socially engineer an effeminate, egalitarian, or insubordinate culture within its ranks are subversive of all order, discipline, and the very existence of the military itself. Wisconsin lawmakers should, in a manner more worthy of self-government, be expected to “bear true faith and allegiance” to the same constitutional principles that National Guard members also must take an oath to “support and defend.”
AB494 would require persons seeking “indefinitely confined status” due to “frailty, physical illness, or a disability” to submit proof of voter indentation before receiving automatic absentee ballots.
The Senate passed AB494 on November 14, 2023, by a vote of 22 to 11, prior to it being vetoed by the Governor. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because mass vote-by-mail and permanent absentee ballot schemes enable electoral fraud, disenfranchising qualified U.S. citizen voters. The American people alone retain the “right of Representation in the Legislature,” and lawmakers in Wisconsin should perform their duty and exercise the full extent of their authority under Article 1, Section 4, of the U.S. Constitution, as well as the 14th and 26th Amendments, to implement free, fair, and secure elections, thereby ensuring equal protection of “the right of citizens of the United States to vote.”
SB466 forbids a financial institution from requiring the use of a merchant category code that identifies the merchant as a firearms retailer and provides that no governmental entity may maintain a list of firearms owners. The Senate passed SB466 on January 16, 2024, by a vote of 22 to 10, prior to it being vetoed by the Governor. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because this bill prevents the unlawful use of credit card payment information to track firearms purchases. Recent adoption of a new merchant category code for “gun and ammunition shops” by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)—a globalist collaborative linked to the United Nations—aids unconstitutional efforts by the federal government to conduct mass surveillance, which, in part, is intended to create a national gun-owner database and confiscate firearms from law-abiding citizens. States should interpose between and nullify the actions of private or public entities that frustrate, if not blatantly violate, the Second and Fourth Amendment rights of the American people.
AB51 would allow recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to become law enforcement officers. The Senate stopped AB51 from advancing when it referred the bill to committee on February 20, 2024, by a vote of 22 to 10. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because persons who enter the United States illegally—which, by definition, is a crime—should not be permitted sanctuary or residency in Wisconsin, let alone be considered eligible for appointment as local police officers and deputy sheriffs. Rather than pursue an unconstitutional and anti-American policy that erodes both the ‘rule of law’ and the value of citizenship, Wisconsin should use its powers reserved under the U.S. Constitution’s 10th Amendment to end the crisis of illegal migration and provide for the public safety.
AB29 creates a sales and use tax exemption for gold, silver, and other precious metals. The Senate passed AB29 on March 12, 2024, by a vote of 23 to 9.
We have assigned pluses to the ayes because this bill is a necessary step toward restoring sound money and adhering to the U.S. Constitution’s monetary provisions. According to Article 1, Section 10, of the Constitution, “No State shall … make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.” States can and must act now to protect Americans’ financial freedom and privacy by both ending the Federal Reserve’s unconstitutional monopoly on money and thwarting government plans to impose a Central Bank Digital Currency.
AB910 prohibits online retailers from selling cigars or pipe tobacco without a “remote” permit, including for the collection of state taxes, and mandates the use of an age verification system.
The Senate passed AB910 on March 12, 2024, by a vote of 30 to 2. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this bill would force certain online retailers in the United States, even in states without a sales tax, to act as out-of-state tax collectors for the Wisconsin Department of Revenue. Subjecting American citizens and businesses in one state to taxes and regulations of another state is “taxation without representation.” It not only places an additional state tax on consumers, but also kowtows to the federal Food and Drug Administration’s erroneous minimum-age requirement that denies to adult citizens younger than 21 years of age—who are eligible to vote and enlist in the military—their right to purchase tobacco. The U.S. Constitution’s commerce and due process provisions were intended to protect individual rights and free-market enterprise against such discriminatory and burdensome forms of taxation.
