Sen. Chris Larson, who represents South Milwaukee, is the new Senate minority leader.
See the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story here. From it:
Senate Democrats elected 32-year-old freshman Chris Larson of Milwaukee as minority leader on Tuesday. Larson was first elected to the Senate in 2010 after beating a more conservative Democrat in a primary and since then has been a reliable part of his party’s liberal wing.
With Larson’s relative inexperience, some Republicans signaled Tuesday that they thought he would be ineffective as a leader.
“Obviously, I’m new,” Larson said in a brief interview after the closed-door caucus vote. “But I think I’ve made that up in the work that I’ve done over the last two years speaking up and speaking to the issues that matter to our constituency, the middle class, the people who are blue-collar workers.”
Vos of Rochester, elected speaker as expected, made a plea for bipartisanship. But he also made comments undercutting Larson even before his appointment was announced.
Vos told his GOP colleagues about the selection of Larson even as Senate Democrats were still in closed caucus. Assembly Republicans at first didn’t believe Vos.
“Are you kidding me?” one of them asked.
“Sometimes, God gives you a gift,” Vos responded.
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