Activists protest the Finance Committee’s move to tank the governor’s budget proposals.
As the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee was poised to strip hundreds of Governor Evers’ proposals from the next state budget today, folks from across the state crowded inside the Capitol in protest.
During today’s action, organized by Voces de la Frontera, roughly 200 activists crowded into a narrow hallway outside a committee room where the Joint Finance Committee — the legislative committee in charge of the budget — was scheduled to meet.
Shortly after they arrived, a capitol official emerged from the Finance Committee’s meeting room to inform protesters that the occupancy limit had already been reached. The demonstrators, many of whom were bussed in from Milwaukee and Racine, were denied entry.