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Senators drop ‘fresh start’

The much-ballyhooed “New Day” of bipartisan cooperation in the state Senate expired in less than an hour of partisan wrangling on Tuesday.

,,,,the partisan claws came out as the Senate acted on 32 of Gov. Jim Doyle’s appointments to policymaking and oversight bodies ranging from the UW Board of Regents to the Dentistry Examining Board.