Called in to act on expanding Medicaid, which 38 other states have done. Legislature gaveled in and out in seconds, refusing to debate or vote. - May 2021
Called in to act in increasing the K-12 and higher education budget by $550 million. Legislature gaveled in and out in seconfds, refusing to debate or vote. - July 2021
Called in to act on protecting a right to abortion. Legislature gaveled in and out in seconds, refusing to debate or vote. - June 2022
Called in to act on increased gun violence. Legislature gaveled in and out in seconds, refusing to debate or vote. - November 2019
Called in to act on police reform after several unarmed black men were shot by police in Wisconsin. Legislature gaveled in and out in seconds, refusing to debate or vote. - September 2020
Called in to act on using part of the projected $3.8 Billion surplus on funding K-12 education. Legislature gaveled in and out in seconds, refusing to debate or vote. - March 2022
Pat Snyder voted yes on the following bills:
AB180 requiring abortion physicians to provide information on abortion reversal, a procedure that the scientific community sees as illegitimate and invalid, as it is not based upon medically-sound research.
AB179 is a “born alive” law, similar to the ones recently passed in Georgia, that requires doctors to care for a child that is born as a result of a failed abortion.
AB183 and AB181 restricts the availability of funding to hospitals, doctors and clinics that provide abortions.
AB182 bans women from seeking an abortion because of the race, sex or disability of a fetus.
Pat snyder has been endorsed by Wisconsin Right to Life - 2016, 2018, 2020.
Quotes:
"...and let's not foget the legalization of abortion in 1973. People, if we cannot respect life, how can we be expected to truly respect anything else? That is what our political battles will be about." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfBqUrhD8Xc
Claim: Rep Snyder "voted to protect pre-existing conditions" (link here)
Fact: This Bill was passed with a Republican amendment that had an exception: if an individual had a lapse in coverage for 63 days or longer in a calendar year, insurance companies COULD charge people more if they had a pre-existing condition. (see lines 9-21 in the bill linked above).
Claim: Rep Snyder "secured millions of new dollars to support new or expanded school based mental health programs." (link here)
Fact: Proposal from Governor Evers 2021-2023 Budget:
$53.5 million increase in mental health funding for schools.
Republicans CUT that to a $19 million increase.
Governor Evers has twice called the Assembly into a special session to use readily available funds to invest in school-based mental health and both times, the Republican majority refused to even consider it. (link here)
Claim: Rep Snyder made "record investments" in schools.(according to a flyer received by residents on 9/25/22)
Fact: The GOP plan would have made a 0% increase in general state aid to schools in the first year of the biennial budget, followed by a 0% increase in general school aid in the second year. Their plan was to use ONE TIME Covid Relief money. The problem was that the plan fell $200 million short of the 35% state funding level required by the federal government to make the state eligible to receive federal funds. Only then, when they were at risk of losing that $2.6B one time boost did they authorize $647 million in state aid BUT this was money that the schools would have lost anyway through property tax reductions - for a net increase of 1.1% Their budget also cut additional funding for school breakfasts, along with money for subsidized school lunches, English language learners, drivers’ ed, additional support for kids living in poverty, four-year-old kindergarten and aid to districts with declining enrollments.
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