Former Wisconsin state senators Tim Cullen, George Petak, have died
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Former State Sen. Tim Cullen addresses a protest against gerrymandering as the state Supreme Court takes up a challenge to the Republican-drawn maps in 2023.
Tim Cullen, 80, left, was a champion for nonpartisan maps in Wisconsin. Petak, 75, became the first legislator in state history to be recalled from office after casting the deciding vote in favor of funding the Milwaukee Brewers stadium.
Then-Democratic state Sen. Tim Cullen greets supporters in March 2011 after returning to Wisconsin from Illinois, where he and 13 other Democrats had fled for three weeks to try to forestall a vote on then-Gov. Scott Walker's anti-union legislation that would become Act. 10.
Then-state Sen. George Petak takes in the final game at County Stadium in Milwaukee in 2000. Petak was recalled after casting the deciding vote in 1996 for a regional sales tax to pay for the Milwaukee Brewers' Miller Park, now known as American Family Field.
A decade after the debate and protests over the anti-union law known as Act 10 convulsed the state, Wisconsin remains firmly divided on the law.
Former State Sen. Tim Cullen addresses a protest against gerrymandering as the state Supreme Court takes up a challenge to the Republican-drawn maps in 2023.
Tim Cullen, 80, left, was a champion for nonpartisan maps in Wisconsin. Petak, 75, became the first legislator in state history to be recalled from office after casting the deciding vote in favor of funding the Milwaukee Brewers stadium.
Then-Democratic state Sen. Tim Cullen greets supporters in March 2011 after returning to Wisconsin from Illinois, where he and 13 other Democrats had fled for three weeks to try to forestall a vote on then-Gov. Scott Walker's anti-union legislation that would become Act. 10.
Then-state Sen. George Petak takes in the final game at County Stadium in Milwaukee in 2000. Petak was recalled after casting the deciding vote in 1996 for a regional sales tax to pay for the Milwaukee Brewers' Miller Park, now known as American Family Field.
