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Lampert Smith: It’s about what families value

Now that Assembly Speaker John Gard and his pals have killed health insurance for domestic partners of University of Wisconsin System employees, can we please stop pretending?

It’s not about the money.

If it was about the money, legislators would have accepted language from Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, to allow the System to compete for employees by offering the benefits, providing they did so with existing money.