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Rep. Kurtz wants bigger voice in stay-at-home orders
Attorney General Josh Kaul is telling the state Supreme Court that Gov. Tony Evers has broad authority to issue a stay-at-home order to protect Wisconsin residents from the coronavirus.
Republican legislators have asked the court to block the stay-at-home order, claiming that the legislature should have had a voice in the decision.
Wonewoc Republican lawmaker Tony Kurtz believes different parts of Wisconsin might be able to open up earlier than the big cities.
Kurtz says that in a county, “there might be one or two cases, and of those cases, they’ve recovered. It’s pretty hard for my colleagues up in the northern part of the state to tell a business, to say why you’re closed when they’re not seeing the numbers.”
Kurtz says he doesn’t want the governor to have unlimited ability to extend the stay-home order, now scheduled to last through Memorial Day.
On WIZM’s La Crosse Talk, Kurtz said his party isn’t trying to end guidelines that seem to be working.