From WisPolitics … — Dem Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski has dropped her request for the GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee to approve additional funding and staff for her office. The committee had planned to take up the request during today’s
From WisPolitics … — Americans for Prosperity Action has launched a new $1 million ad campaign praising GOP businessman Eric Hovde as someone who will bring people together and knocking U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin as a career politician. The campaign,
From WisPolitics … — GOP appointee Bob Atwell says he “left room for people to assume” he was going to stay on the UW Board of Regents much longer than he intended, according to an email he shared with WisPolitics.
From WisPolitics … — Candidates seeking to get on the fall ballot have a deadline today to turn in their nomination papers. The Elections Commission’s latest update, posted late Friday, shows: *All four announced candidates for the 8th CD have
From WisPolitics … — State GOP Chairman Brian Schimming is accusing Dems and President Joe Biden’s campaign of weaponizing the legal system after Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of a felony, calling the verdict “a
From WisPolitics … — DPI is threatening to withhold state aid payments from Milwaukee Public Schools because the district has failed to file statutorily required fiscal reports. Two of the reports were due eight months ago, and the district is
From WisPolitics … — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced today it has added former Revenue Secretary Peter Barca to its “Red to Blue” program, a sign it intends to invest in his campaign against U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Janesville.
From WisPolitics … — The group seeking to oust Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says it will turn in more than 8,000 signatures from the 63rd AD this afternoon with 6,850 valid ones needed to trigger a recall. Recall organizers face
From WisPolitics … — The Fix Washington PAC, a group largely funded by GOP U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde’s brother, has dropped another $1.5 million on ads targeting U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. The group’s latest filing with the FEC shows
From WisPolitics … — The list of delegates and alternates Wisconsin Republicans will send to the national convention includes two former governors, several elected officials and two people who served as false electors in 2020. The party announced the list
From WisPolitics … — U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin today released the fifth TV ad of her campaign, a spot shot selfie-style in which people praise her for a cap on insulin costs. Baldwin’s campaign said the ad will run statewide
From WisPolitics … — The state Dem Party had nearly $2.3 million in its federal account at the end of April, a 3.5-to-1 advantage over the Republican Party of Wisconsin. Both parties filed their latest federal campaign finance reports yesterday
From WisPolitics … — Speakers at this weekend’s GOP state convention urged party activists to put aside their differences and come together to defeat President Joe Biden and “radical” Dems this fall. U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, made his pitch
From WisPolitics … — The Republican state convention in Appleton kicks off today, though the meat of the convention will be tomorrow. U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., will be the keynote speaker tomorrow with an agenda that also includes an
From WisPolitics … — Vice President Kamala Harris will be joined by comedian and radio show host D.L Hughley during her stop in Milwaukee today for a moderated conversation about how the Biden administration is working to increase economic opportunity,
From WisPolitics … — The Wisconsinites for Liberty Fund is starting a new radio ad today discouraging people from signing a petition to recall Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester. The group said it’s a five-figure buy over the next 10
From WisPolitics … — Gov. Tony Evers this morning announced a July special election to fill the vacant 4th SD and one in November for the 8th CD. The 4th SD has been open since January, when then-state Sen. Lena
From WisPolitics … — UW-Milwaukee officials reached a deal with protesters to remove a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus that includes the school joining a call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Meanwhile, the student groups involved pledged not to disrupt UW-Milwaukee’s
From WisPolitics … — Darwin Behnke, the father of GOP state Rep. Elijah Behnke, tells WisPolitics he’s trying to gather signatures to run for the 4th AD, the seat his son is leaving to run for another district. That would
From WisPolitics … — U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan was one of seven Dems to vote present as the vast majority of the House blocked 359-43 an effort to remove U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. The remaining House members from
