GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) — A local Republican Assemblyman is taking aim at Governor Tony Evers.
Republican Assemblyman John Macco says Governor Tony Evers special session called last week on police reform was just posturing.
“For the governor to call us in and say ‘you need to come in and do this thing’–we haven’t even looked at those things,” Macco told WTAQ’s ‘The Morning News with Matt and Earl’ on Friday. “Those things haven’t had a hearing. You don’t want to have a discussion, you just wanted us to come in and vote on it. It was just all political shenanigans.”
Macco added he isn’t against police reform as a concept.
“Bills need to be vetted. You can say that it goes slow, and ask ‘why can’t you just come in and do it’, but it’s it’s a big, massive organization, and you have to be fair,” said Macco. “You have to consider everything.”
“It’s not about doing one thing 100% better and then suddenly we have an absolutely beautiful police force,” Macco added. “It’s about doing a hundred little things 1% better. That’s what we think we can do here.”
There is, however, one thing the 88th district representative says he won’t support.
“We’re not going to eliminate the police force,” he said. “We’re not going to cut their spending. we’re going to support the people that are trying to protect us. That’s just simply what’s going to happen as long as we’re in charge.”
Republicans gaveled in and then postponed the sesssion Monday before ultimately opting to take no action on Thursday. Evers called the session following the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha.
