 "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)")
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Cap may apply only to state spending: Assembly might balk at limits on local governments, schools.
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Byline: Steven Walters
Apr. 27--Madison -- Republican legislators who want constitutional limits on state and local spending will offer a fallback plan today -- a strict cap only on state spending -- if they can't get the Assembly to also restrain municipalities and school districts. On the eve of expected votes on different versions of spending limits, Assembly Speaker John Gard (R-Peshtigo) and Rep. Jeff Wood (R-Chippewa Falls) said Wednesday that their first choice remains a constitutional amendment that would limit state and local spending. But if he can't win ...
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