This afternoon, the Wisconsin Legislature passed a bill designed to cut down on drunken driving.

The bill makes a first offense a crime if someone under age 16 is in the car and makes driving drunk a felony on a fourth offense instead of a fifth.Governor Jim Doyle has already said he will sign it.

The only legislator to vote against the measure is Representative Marlin Schneider (D-Wisconsin Rapids) and he says that the bill won’t work.

I talked to him on the phone; this is what he had to say:

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