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Tony Evers: “We worked with the leadership, the majority leadership in…”

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UPFRONT: Evers says 'bad place for Dems' after tax relief vote

Published | Video Starts at 02:40

The deal backed by Governor Evers, who we sat down with Friday in his first interview since the deal fell apart. Bring me inside. How did this all implode? It's all politics. I mean it really. We worked with the leadership, the majority leadership in both houses had things in a place where I thought, everybody thought that we'd be in good shape, you know, in the assembly it did work out that way. In the Senate it did not. And, you know, we could blame Tom Tiffany because he reached out to people, but at the end of the day, it's probably not worth, you know, whatever he does … (02:40–02:55)

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Asserts that the tax relief deal was expected to pass in both the Assembly and Senate.

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