40 Facts About Tony Evers

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Anthony Steven Evers was born on November 5,1951 and is an American educator and politician serving as the 46th governor of Wisconsin since 2019.

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Tony Evers first ran for Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1993 and again in 2001, losing both elections.

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Tony Evers was instead appointed deputy superintendent, a position he served in from 2001 to 2009.

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Tony Evers was reelected as governor in the November 8,2022, general election, defeating Republican challenger Tim Michels.

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Tony Evers was born in 1951 in Plymouth, Wisconsin, the son of Jean and Raymond Tony Evers, a physician.

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Tony Evers began his professional career as a teacher and media coordinator in the Tomah school district.

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From 1984 to 1988 Tony Evers was superintendent of the Oakfield school district, and from 1988 to 1992 he was superintendent of the Verona school district.

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Tony Evers first ran for state superintendent, a nonpartisan post, in 1993 and was defeated by John Benson.

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Tony Evers served as president of the Council of Chief State School Officers and from 2001 to 2009 was Wisconsin's Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction.

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In 2009 Tony Evers used government email accounts for fundraising purposes.

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In October 2018, a divided federal appeals court found that Tony Evers had violated neither the US Constitution's Free Exercise Clause nor its Establishment Clause when he denied busing to an independent Catholic school because there was a nearby archdiocesan school.

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In March 2016, the United States Department of Education announced that Tony Evers had been selected to serve on the Negotiated Rulemaking Committee for Title 1, Part A, of the Every Student Succeeds Act.

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Tony Evers proposed the "Fair Funding for Our Future" school finance reform plan.

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In 2017, Tony Evers secured increased state investment in order to increase the number of trained professionals in schools and more funding for mental health training and cross-sector collaboration.

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Tony Evers launched his first campaign advertisement against Walker on August 28,2017.

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Tony Evers won the eight-candidate Democratic primary on August 14,2018.

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On November 6,2018, Tony Evers narrowly defeated Walker in the general election.

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Tony Evers's 2018 running mate, Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes, instead chose to run for US Senate.

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In February 2019, Tony Evers withdrew Wisconsin National Guard forces from the border with Mexico, where President Donald Trump had called for a "national emergency".

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In February 2019, Tony Evers's administration prepared a budget proposal that included proposals to legalize the medical use of marijuana for patients with certain conditions, upon the recommendation from a physician or practitioner.

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Tony Evers proposed to decriminalize the possession or distribution of 25 grams or less of marijuana in Wisconsin and to repeal the requirement that users of cannabidiol obtain a physician's certification every year.

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In March 2019, Tony Evers replaced 82 appointments that Walker made in December 2018 after a Wisconsin judge ruled that the confirmation of those appointees during the lame-duck legislative session violated the Wisconsin constitution.

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On March 12,2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tony Evers declared a public health emergency in the state.

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Tony Evers responded to the suit by accusing legislative Republicans of a "power grab", and said they cared more about political power than people's lives.

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Tony Evers issued a statement denouncing the excessive use of force by police and invoking the names of African Americans killed by law enforcement.

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26.

Tony Evers responded to the shooting by calling Wisconsin state lawmakers into a special session to pass legislation addressing police brutality.

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Tony Evers proposed legalizing medical and recreational marijuana, as well as increasing the minimum wage and granting public workers collective bargaining rights.

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Tony Evers has said his top priorities are improving the Wisconsin public school system, making health care more affordable and fixing Wisconsin's roads and bridges.

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Tony Evers supports directing more funding towards K-12 education and would like to work with Republicans to do more to help underperforming schools.

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Tony Evers has criticized Wisconsin's legislative maps as "some of the most gerrymandered, extreme maps in the United States," citing as evidence the fact that the state legislature has opposed policies such as legalizing marijuana and expanding Medicaid despite polls showing that a majority of Wisconsinites support both.

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Tony Evers has supported an extreme risk protection order act, commonly known as a "red flag law", which would permit loved ones or police to petition to have an individual's guns taken away if a judge deems them a risk to themselves or others.

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Tony Evers has said that Scott Walker's decisions regarding health care in Wisconsin led to higher insurance premiums for residents.

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Tony Evers supports allowing children to stay on their parents' health insurance plans until the age of 26.

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Tony Evers supports permitting undocumented immigrants living in Wisconsin to obtain driver's licenses, and has called this position "common sense".

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In December 2019, in response to Trump's executive order requiring states' consent for refugee resettlement, Tony Evers sent the administration a letter stating that Wisconsin would accept refugees, calling them "part of the fabric of [the] state", and criticizing Trump's refugee policies as "overly cumbersome and inappropriate".

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In February 2020, Tony Evers sent US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a letter to asking him to halt negotiations with the government of Laos regarding deportations of Wisconsin's Hmong refugee population, who had previously been protected from deportation due to a long record of human rights violations in Laos.

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In June 2019, Tony Evers issued an executive order to fly the rainbow flag at Wisconsin's Capitol Building for Pride month, making it the first time the rainbow flag had ever flown above the capitol.

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Tony Evers has cited studies showing that Wisconsin has some of the nation's worst roads.

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Tony Evers ran for governor on a promise to focus on improving roads and bridges, and has said he is open to imposing a gas tax to fund the projects.

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Tony Evers had esophageal cancer before undergoing intensive surgery in 2008.