Dear Friends,

Tomorrow, we celebrate Veterans Day in Wisconsin. I do not take for granted the sacrifices our brave men and women made so I can represent you in the State Senate. I truly appreciate all our veterans have done for our state and our nation. Thank you!

Also, good luck to Hamilton high school football team as they move on to the next round of the WIAA football playoffs!

As always, if you have any concerns or ideas on how to improve our great state, please do not hesitate to contact me by phone at 608-266-5830 or by email at Sen.Darling@legis.wisconsin.gov.

On, Wisconsin!

I'm proud to back the blue and also proud that they back me. I was recently honored to be listed among the 2022 Wisconsin Professional Police Association's Law Enforcement Honor Roll.

Too many politicians are attacking our police. I worked hard to protect the people who protect us this session. That's why I co-authored Senate Bill 119, which will defund communities that defund the police.

Communities that cut their police force will see a drop in state revenue. Leaving citizens unprotected has consequences for law-abiding citizens. There must be some consequences for city officials who defund police.

I also worked to take away many of the excuses communities use when they defund the police, by supporting bills that helped communities recruit and train police officers. I supported three bills to make sure cities can hire and keep police.

• Assembly Bill 831 created the 'Pro-Cop Wisconsin Campaign" to recruit and retain officers.
• Assembly Bill 832 provided help to pay for the costs of law enforcement training. 
• Assembly Bill 836 provided $1 million to create a part-time police academy within the technical college system to give officers more options for training and retaining more police in our state.

Unfortunately, everyone one of those bills was vetoed by Governor Evers.

I will always back the blue. We need to stand up for law and order in our communities and make sure the men and women who protect us know they are valued. Instead of defunding the police, communities need to invest in making their cities safer.

Thanks to tax cuts and responsible planning, state revenues are up another $1.6 billion than expected. That's in addition to a projected surplus of nearly $3 billion by the non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau. 

Wisconsin is on solid economic ground because we lived within our means, cut taxes, and reformed government. We were careful with your money.

We stopped Governor Evers from hiking taxes by more than $1 billion during the pandemic and raising the gas tax permanently. Instead, we delivered the largest tax cut in state history. We have delivered $22 billion in savings to taxpayers since 2011. Even after tax cuts, we continue to fund our schools at historic levels, balance the budget, and grow our economy.

Not only did we deliver the largest tax cut in state history last session, we also made it much easier to see how your tax money is spent.

I supported Senate Bill 70 which creates a Tax Accountability Dashboard on the Wisconsin Department of Revenue website. This feature will ensure accountability and transparency for your tax dollars.

Click on the picture to check it out!