Wisconsin Republicans Still At It
Over the objections of Gov. Scott Walker’s administration, a key legislative committee voted Wednesday against building a new train maintenance base - a decision that officials warned could mean mothballing two brand-new trains and walking away from the $71.8 million already invested in them.
The Legislature’s Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee voted, 12-4, along party lines not to borrow $2.5 million to continue planning a $55 million to $63 million permanent maintenance base in Milwaukee.
That base would have serviced two new trains built in Milwaukee by Spanish-owned Talgo Inc. for Amtrak’s Milwaukee-to-Chicago Hiawatha line.
This created a rare alliance of democrats and Scott Walkers administration. Is this a sign the Wisconsin republicans are distancing themselves from Walker?