David Crowley Backed 2050 Net-Zero Plan and DEI Budgeting Despite Moderate Label
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Updated · Fox News · Aug 24
David Crowley Backed 2050 Net-Zero Plan and DEI Budgeting Despite Moderate Label
2 articles · Updated · Fox News · Aug 24
Summary
David Crowley, fresh off his upset primary win over Francesca Hong, carried into the governor’s race a Milwaukee County record that included racial-equity budgeting, an expanded equity office and a 2050 net-zero emissions plan.
The overlap undercuts his moderate branding because Crowley and Hong shared several marquee progressive positions, including taxing millionaires, a $20 minimum wage, expanded union rights and universal child care.
Milwaukee County’s Racial Equity Budget Tool required departments to assess budget impacts on communities of color, and Crowley’s administration broadened the Office on African American Affairs into an Office of Equity covering LGBTQ+ residents and people with disabilities.
Climate policy was another through line: Crowley signed the county’s Climate Action 2050 plan in 2025, reaffirmed Paris Agreement goals in April and backed a 2022 resolution urging Wisconsin’s attorney general to sue fossil-fuel companies.
The record gives Republicans a line of attack after Crowley’s primary breakthrough, even as national and local outlets had framed him as a mainstream or center-left alternative to Hong.