A viewer asked News 3 Investigates to ask Wisconsin’s legislators whether they’d gotten the Covid-19 vaccine. We polled 130 members of the legislator (two seats are currently empty) over email and follow-up outreach to determine who planned to or had already gotten the vaccine; 60 lawmakers (40 Democrats, 20 Republicans) responded; 10 Democrats and 60 Republicans did not.
MADISON, Wis. Many Republican and a few Democratic lawmakers in Wisconsin’s legislature aren’t disclosing whether they’ve had or plan to get the Covid-19 vaccine, in response to questions emailed to 130 Assembly and Senate lawmakers over the past week.
60 lawmakers from both parties responded to questions about whether they’d received or planned to get the Covid-19 vaccine in the future, with the vast majority falling in age brackets below eligibility but saying they planned to get it once it was available. Very few of responding lawmakers, just six of those eligible by age, had received or schedul