Many promises were made and broken during the nearly five-month process of passing Wisconsin’s new two-year budget.
Gov. Jim Doyle said the middle class would be protected while he and fellow Democrats in charge of the Legislature figured out how to solve a $6.6 billion budget shortfall, the largest in Wisconsin history.
Democratic leaders in the Assembly said they would work with Republicans under a new spirit of bipartisanship to pass the spending plan. And there was also talk of the process being more open.
All of the promises sounded good, but most didn’t come true.