Rep. Darrin Madison

@darrinmadison.bsky.social

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29/Wisconsin 10th District State Representative🇺🇸 / Environmentalist 🌲/Liberate WI✊🏾/Democratic Socialist🌹 / Abolitionist ⛓️‍💥

Rep Madison and Wisconsin Conservation Voters volunteers or staff. Rep Madison is holding a framed award.

Graphic from Wisconsin Conservation Voters showing a 100% score for last session

rep robyn vining speaking behind a lecturn

flyer for 6/29 rally to save hemp
derived products at kelly’s greens

Flyer for an anti-ICE community rally in Milwaukee’s Kosciusko Park on 7/1 starting at 6pm

Graphic from Voces de la Frontera explaining how to act if you think you’ve seen ICE agents in the Milwaukee area. Several languages

english flyer advertising voces de la frontera’s know your rights canvasses re ICE this week

Flyer for MKE DSA's 6/24 rally for public power/a public utility, starting at 8:30am at Milwaukee's city hall

Graphic for MKELove Summer Kickback event

a press release from Rep Darrin Madison opposing a bill to spend most of Wisconsin’s state surplus, dated May 13, 2026

Robert Craig of Citizen Action behind a lectern with a BadgerCare public option sign during a press conference at the WI Capitol’s Assembly Parlor.

A sign reading “BadgerCare public option”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: July 2nd, 2025
Contact: Timothy Schaefer, (608) 237-9110

Wisconsin Legislative Socialist Caucus Rejects Proposed Budget that Would Devastate Public Education in Wisconsin
Rep. Ryan Clancy, Rep. Francesca Hong, Rep. Darrin Madison, Rep. Christian Phelps Will Vote No

MADISON, Wis. – Today, the Wisconsin State Assembly will convene to consider the Wisconsin 2025-27 state budget proposal negotiated by Governor Tony Evers and Speaker Robin Vos and approved in a 12-4 party line vote by the Joint Finance Committee yesterday.

The Wisconsin Legislative Socialist Caucus (Rep. Ryan Clancy, Rep. Francesca Hong, Rep. Darrin Madison, Rep. Christian Phelps) released the following statement:

“Crafted without transparency and excluding both Assembly Democrats and the public, this budget represents a catastrophic failure of leadership that surrenders to Republican austerity and abandons the people of Wisconsin.

This budget offers no increase in new general aid to public schools for the first time since the Walker Administration and Act 10. It promises only minimal increases to special education funding – ‘up to’ targets that will likely fall short due to inflation and demand – while increasing funding to voucher and charter schools. If passed, this will cause school closures and another wave of statewide property tax referendums.

On healthcare, this proposal is equally disastrous. It fails to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, a commonsense move embraced by nearly every other state to bring in billions in federal dollars. Instead, supporters are rushing this vote to avoid delayed handouts to hospitals. The real crisis isn’t the delay, it’s the abandonment of Wisconsinites who rely on BadgerCare and other essential services. The austerity of this budget will only be compounded by federal uncertainty and the harmful cuts to our safety net promised by the Trump Administration.

The Wisconsin Legislative Socialist Caucus will vote against th…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: July 1, 2025
Contact: Timothy Schaefer, 608-237-9110

Rep. Madison Opposes Budget That Leaves Our Schools and Communities Behind

MADISON, WI - Today, the Wisconsin Assembly’s Joint Finance Committee considered and approved the 2025-27 Wisconsin State Budget on a 12-4 party line vote, sending the budget to the full Assembly tomorrow.

Representative Madison (D-10) issued the following statement:

“Tomorrow, we will be presented with a budget that’s the result of long, mostly private negotiations between Governor Tony Evers and leadership in the legislature. Unfortunately, that budget continues the trend of underfunding our public schools, including an over $1M reduction in aid to the Shorewood School District and no new resources for Nicolet High School. These cuts will almost certainly force public schools to consider yet another property tax increase referendum in 2028.

Shorewood’s cuts are illustrative of the deep flaws in this budget: insufficient special aid reimbursement to public schools, a zero-dollar increase in general aid to those same schools, no expansion of Medicaid – or even of postpartum care for those on BadgerCare – and no clear plan to close Green Bay Correctional Institution. Any of these flaws would be devastating on their own, but in combination they make my decision very clear: I will be voting no on this budget. This budget is not a bipartisan compromise moving Wisconsin forward, but a budget that fails to meet the needs of the most vulnerable in our state.”

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