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Dan O'Donnell: “Were Act 10 to go away, it would cost the average family of…”

Featuring: Dan O'Donnell, Radio Host | Common Sense Central | Wisconsin

The Dan O'Donnell Show How the Super Bowl Disproved Liberal Orthodoxy

Published February 10, 2025 | Video Starts at 39:53

Well, the employer of the state of Wisconsin's employees is is you and me. Our tax dollars are paying almost 80%, 90%, excuse me, of their health insurance premiums. Were Act 10 to go away, it would cost the average family of four fifteen hundred dollars per year instantly. But again, that's not a complete analysis because what do we know schools and school districts have done almost constantly and we've got about a school district that just can't stop going to referendum. (39:53–40:03)

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Asserts that repealing Act 10 would cost the average Wisconsin family of four $1,500 annually.

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“She [Susan Crawford] is already saying she would not recuse herself either.”
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“The liberal candidate is quite literally promising, along with the Wisconsin Democratic Party, to rig the midterm elections.”
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“She will strike down Wisconsin's congressional maps.”
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“She'll then approve gerrymandered maps that will get Brian Style and Derek Van Orden out of their seats.”
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“This was the subject of an email that invited people to an appearance with her and the Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chairman Ben Wickler…”
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“Brad Schimmel announced today that his campaign has raised $5 million.”
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“The campaign raised over $2.7 million in just one month.”
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“The historic January fundraising haul is 27 times greater than what the conservative candidate raised during this same period two years ago.”
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“He [Tony Evers] came out and said in early January press conference he's asked about Underlee just kind of unilaterally changing standards.”
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“President Trump won the popular vote just a couple of months ago.”
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“Susan Crawford got a million bucks from the Democratic Party.”
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“The express purpose of the meeting was to, quote, put two more congressional seats into play.”
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“If your congressional representative gets gerrymandered out of his seat, if we go through exactly what we went through in the last two years…”
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“I can guarantee you will pay a lot more in taxes. When I say a lot more, I mean a lot more. I mean like billions more as a state. I mean…”
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“The results of the Wisconsin Supreme Court election could cost you thousands of dollars.”
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“If Susan Crawford, the far left lunatic, gets elected and Brad Schimmel, the conservative stalwart, does not, Act 10 will be overturned.”
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“One conservative, well, alleged conservative Justice Brian Hagedorn, has already announced that he is going to recuse himself from the…”
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“Liberals already have a 4:3 majority on the highest court.”
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“Without Hagedorn voting with the conservative minority, the best that conservatives could hope for is a 4:2 ruling.”
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“Act 10 would be gone.”
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“The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that Madison teachers were incorrect. Act 10 was perfectly lawful, perfectly constitutional.”
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“Hagedorn should have recused himself. The Code of Judicial Conduct demands it.”
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“Susan Crawford has no such ethical compunction. She's going to hear the Act 10 case.”
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“A Dane county circuit court judge struck down Act 10 on positively asinine grounds.”
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“If Act 10 gets repealed, we will lose an estimated $31 billion in savings.”
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“There was an immediate $127 million budget shortfall.”
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“There was a $2.6 billion structural deficit.”
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“The 2009 state budget, Doyle's for our final one included $2 billion in new taxes and fees.”
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“That same budget also included $3.6 billion in bonding.”
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“Public employees were paying nothing for pension contributions or for health insurance premiums.”
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“Public sector employees had to pay 12.6% for their health insurance premiums.”
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“Public sector employees had to pay 50% of the contributions made towards their pensions.”
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“The average private sector employee pays 28% for family health coverage.”
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“Act 10 has provided Wisconsin taxpayers with $31 billion in savings over 14 years.”
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“According to McIver Institute's projections, Act 10 has saved Wisconsinites $31 billion since it was enacted in 2011.”
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“Act 10 has saved every person in Wisconsin $5,344.83 since it was enacted.”
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“The average family of four has saved $20,000, roughly $1,500 per year saved by virtue of Governor Walker and the Republican legislature.”
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“Our tax dollars are paying almost 80%, 90%, excuse me, of [state employees'] health insurance premiums.”
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“Susan Crawford will absolutely vote to overturn Act 10.”
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“She actually prejudged the two biggest cases that are currently before the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Act 10 and abortion.”
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“The question before the Wisconsin Supreme Court right now is should abortion be a guaranteed right under the Wisconsin Constitution.”
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“For the first time ever, a sitting president has attended the Super Bowl.”
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“We are here to talk about the possibility of even more tariffs on top of the ones on steel that were imposed today.”
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“President Trump really likes him some tariffs.”
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“His entire performance was dedicated to calling Drake a pedophile.”
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“The who was the last time you did not have diversity on that stage.”
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“The last five Super Bowl halftime shows have all been one genre of music: Hip hop and R and B.”
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“The last time there was someone who plays a musical instrument, it was 2019. Maroon 5.”
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“The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences actually changed their rules. If you don't have a certain amount of diversity in your movie…”
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“Everybody who hates the Kendrick Lamar halftime show is getting it all wrong. I loved it.”
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“There was not a single left winger who could answer my very simple question [about the lack of diversity during last night's Kendrick Lamar…”
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“Waterford Graded School District went to referendum three times. Most recently this past November, where the Waterford Graded referendum…”
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“They were asking for $3 million per year over the next four years to address a budget deficit and depleted fund balance.”
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“The Waterford High School District is for a third straight spring trying to get a referendum passed for facilities improvements.”
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“This time they are asking for $24.9 million.”
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“Last year, they failed to get a referendum passed on two questions totaling 91 million bucks, 78 million for structural improvements to the…”
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“A unanimous Waterford Union High School board voted to pass this referendum, or rather to put it on the ballot.”
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“Waterford, therefore, is banking on the fact that nobody is showing up on February 18th.”
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“They say it is going to have zero tax impact because of, quote, strategic staffing adjustments and prepayment of debt, saving over $1.1…”
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“Originally Scheduled to be paid off by 2039, they'll be fully RET by 2026.”
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“If you as a school district put a referendum on the ballot and it fails or it succeeds, you can next do one in five years and not a day…”
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“We are facing a precipitously declining student population in a lot of these communities.”
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“Some downright shocking fundraising news in the state superintendents race.”
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“Is Dr. Jill Underly not nearly as invincible as conservatives feared?”
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“Brittany Kinser reported today taking in $500,000.”
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“Jill Underly, the incumbent state superintendent has reported receipts, which means the amount of money she's taken in, $81,700.”
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“Kinser has $500,000 coming in folks.”
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“Wisconsin is a National embarrassment. We are by far the worst state in the country for educating Black children.”
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“Just 5% of Black fourth graders statewide can read or do math at grade level.”
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“No other state even comes within about 4 percentage points.”
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“Jill Underly did before this school year? She unilaterally changed state testing standards.”
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“She was deliberately trying to mask failure.”
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“A few years ago, she actually changed the standards again unilaterally, for Wisconsin's Department of Public Instruction report cards.”
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“Milwaukee Public Schools got a passing grade. Milwaukee Public schools, remember, has 5% of black kids able to read or do math at grade…”
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“52% of Wisconsin's kids passed the Forward Exam. Just 38% on the national standards.”
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“Milwaukee Public Schools could not account for $800 million in Covid relief money.”
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“MPS asks for $250 million in additional revenue via a referendum.”
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“Jill Underly waited until after the referendum passed to say MPS never filled out its required financial reports.”
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“MPS actually fired its superintendent. Nearly a year later, they're still looking for a replacement.”
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“The housing authority is robbing the disabled, the elderly and the super poor to pay Willie Hines a quarter of a million dollars in salary.”
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“The FBI immediately needs to investigate [the housing authority].”
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“Evers, the former state superintendent himself, has declined to endorse Jill Underley ahead of this primary.”
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“Democrat politicians, random groups of libs protesting against any sort of attempt to root out bureaucratic waste.”
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“Any sort of attempt to audit the federal government.”
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“Seven out of 10 people said, yes [Trump is fulfilling his campaign promises].”
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“There were 11 days total in four years during Trump's term that he had a positive net approval rating.”
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“He's had a positive net approval rating for 21 days [in his second term].”
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“I outlined in the opening monologue of this hour the waste and the fraud going out of MPS and the Department of Public Instruction in…”
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“The Department of Education is apparently next on the chopping block.”
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“USAID no longer even has its name on its building.”
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“The Constitution gives broad, some might say almost too broad authority to govern the affairs of executing the laws of these United States.”
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“President Trump absolutely has, and he can authorize, he can deputize literally anybody to do that same Thing.”
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“Musk is moving at the speed of business.”
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“80% of Americans want [the government to get] government spending under control.”
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“Democrats are out there screaming bloody murder that this is a constitutional crisis.”
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