Eau Claire County

Now, under Tiffany's plan, it would add more state auditors and look to identify waste, fraud and government duplication, as well as making open book Wisconsin more accessible for taxpayers and create a public agency, excuse me, public agency dashboards to show where taxpayer funds are being spent, which is all important.

At the event in Eau Claire County, he said, quote, Wisconsin taxpayers work hard for every dollar they earn.

Government should work just as hard to earn their trust.

State government needs to prove it is using the money it already has responsibly.

He was in Eau Claire yesterday.

He unveiled what he's calling his taxpayer accountability plan in Eau Claire County, outlining a series of reforms to audit state government.

identify waste, fraud, duplication, increase transparency.

And he says, look, Wisconsin taxpayers work too hard for every dollar they earn.

It's an 11,000 vote difference.

In Eau Claire County alone, the dudes just came out the other day, and it was great.

Bruce Westerman came out, and we had Hunter Nation come in and speak to a group of folks at a gun club.

Eau Claire County alone, it's our largest county, There's over 10,000 guys and gals with hunting licenses, again, that consider themselves conservative, that have only voted one time in 16 years.

Crazy.

If those 10,000 people voted, I would double the margin of victory in one out of the 19 counties I represent.

Just south there on the Eau Claire.

Eau Claire County, yep.

Okay.

Yep.

Now to look at efforts to keep Eau Claire's Imagination Library going into the future, we're joined by author BJ Hallers, an English professor at UW-Eau Claire.

He's co-chair of the Imagination Fund campaign, which is raising money to continue Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in Eau Claire County.

Hi, BJ.

Welcome to the program.

Um, but already it's, it's huge.

And what we're trying to do is to find a way to make sure that this can continue in perpetuity.

So we've got a $1.6 million campaign to make sure that every child in Eau Claire County, uh, both today and tomorrow, uh, can be a part of this, um, for ages zero through five, uh, for every month of those years.

And with that campaign, what do the, what does, what do the funds go to support? Where do they go?