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• AD 95 candidates prep for Tuesday's special election
  The two candidates competing to fill Sen. Jennifer Schilling's old Assembly seat seem to split on most issues along party lines, but they share at least some similar opinions when it comes to restoring civility to the Wisconsin Legislature. La Crosse County Vice Chair Jill Billings, a Democrat, def... <more>
  
  
• Newson stresses government experience in his new role atop DWD
  New DWD Secretary Reggie Newson shares the same goal as his predecessors -- connecting job seekers with job creators. But he comes at it from a much different background. While his two Walker administration predecessors were, in order, a former co-owner of a staffing agency and a labor lawyer, New... <more>
  
  
• Theo: New WRA president says group adjusting to ‘new realities’
  During the peak of the real estate bubble during the last decade, the Wisconsin Realtors Association had 19,000 members. Since that bubble popped, membership has fallen by nearly one-third. And while Mike Theo, the new president of the WRA, acknowledges the “tremendous” decline has caused some b... <more>
  
  
• Thompson outlines ideas campaign amid CFG potshots
  Tommy Thompson says he's willing to work with anyone with big ideas as he gears up for a U.S. Senate bid next year, declaring he won't be a senator who stridently says "No" to all Dem proposals. But as the former governor wades into a GOP primary field likely to include attacks from his right, Tho... <more>
  
  
• New Walker chief of staff finds opportunity amid recall turmoil
  For Eric Schutt, working in a governor’s administration offers an opportunity not found anywhere else. So after stints as a legislative aide, a campaign hand, a party official, and a lobbyist, he jumped at the chance to work for Scott Walker. “For me it was the appeal of coming in to work for both... <more>
  
  
• Vos warns recalls will stall legislative process
  Predicting fellow state lawmakers will hold back on tough decisions or even stall legislative progress altogether if recall elections continue, State Rep. Robin Vos is standing by his proposed amendment to toughen criteria for recalls. Vos, speaking at the first WisPolitics.com luncheon in Milwauke... <more>
  
  
• Baldwin campaign manager says her candidate has defied conventional wisdom before
  When Karin Johanson was 9 years old, she told her grandmother she wanted to be married to the president. At the time, she says, that’s what women did in politics. They were first ladies. “She said, ‘Well why don’t you be president?'” Johanson recalled in a WisPolitics.com interview. “So after tha... <more>
  
  
• Cheney: Leaving Afghanistan a 'dangerous proposition'
  Despite increasing calls for an end to U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan -- including from some corners of the Republican Party -- former Vice President Dick Cheney instead says the country should be in for the long haul, suggesting a commitment like the one that has kept American troops i... <more>
  
  
• Englander returns for second shot at running a Neumann campaign
  Like a lot of political operatives, Chip Englander lives by the motto “have bag, will travel.” So since his first cycle in 2000 with George Allen’s U.S. Senate campaign in Virginia, he hasn’t lived anywhere for more than 15 months. But going to work for Mark Neumann’s Senate campaign is something ... <more>
  
  
• Baldwin: 'Most liberal member of Congress' label lacks context
  U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin's Senate campaign is officially just over three weeks old, and national Republicans and the state's likely GOP field have already delighted in labeling the Madison Dem as the most liberal member of Congress. But Baldwin, who's represented the Dem-leaning 2nd Congressional Di... <more>
  
  
• Baumbach: High unemployment situation dictates fast transition at DWD
  When Scott Baumbach officially took over the Department of Workforce Development in June, he was ready. That’s because he’d been deputy secretary since January and interim head of the department since May, following the abrupt resignation of Manny Perez. An labor law specialist, he’d also argued ... <more>
  
  
• Hopper has no regrets on collective bargaining bill despite union attacks, recall loss
  Randy Hopper said he knew what was coming not long after it was announced to the Senate GOP caucus what Gov. Scott Walker wanted to do to the collective bargaining powers of public employees. Having already been through a contentious race in 2008 in which opponents questioned his tax records and ... <more>
  
  
• Prosecutor Landgraf coy about his role
  In typical fashion, Bruce Landgraf deflects questions about his role in a secret investigation into allegations surrounding Scott Walker’s campaign for governor. “A lot of people are asking about me these days, why I do so many John Does,” said the veteran Milwaukee County assistant district attor... <more>
  
  
• Leavitt: Economic factors will drive future changes to health care system
  The U.S. health care system is ill. That’s the assessment of former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, who also served two terms as governor of Utah. Leavitt, who warned nearly a decade ago that Medicare is headed for financial disaster, said the American people now accept th... <more>
  
  
• Seeking the middle ground
  Veteran state Sens. Tim Cullen and Dale Schultz say they know they're swimming upstream in their efforts to foster greater cooperation between their respective caucuses. But that isn't stopping the two former leaders from trying. Cullen, D-Janesville, and Schultz, R-Richland Center, told a WisPol... <more>
  
  
• Stepp bringing business mindset into DNR operations
  In her eight months at the helm of the Department of Natural Resources, Cathy Stepp says she has worked hard to get the agency’s 2,000-plus employees to be more business- and customer-friendly. And that, she says, has produced a positive result from the public and DNR workers, whom she says have re... <more>
  
  
• Labor Day 2011 has extra meaning for union members
  Labor Day events have extra meaning this weekend as union celebrations around the state acknowledge an historic year marked by collective bargaining limits placed on public union workers, nine Senate recall elections and the possible recall against GOP Gov. Scott Walker. Tensions flared this week ... <more>
  
  
• Come Labor Day, a new executive director of NEA from Wisconsin
  The new head of the National Education Association, who has strong ties to Wisconsin, predicts "the public sector unions will be stronger than ever in the state" someday despite the failure of Democrats to gain control of the state Senate in this summer's recall elections. John Stocks, 54, the for... <more>
  
  
• Malkasian: Realtors' association head reflects on 36 years of lobbying
  After eight years in the political wilderness, the Wisconsin Realtors Association has re-emerged as a major player on the state’s political scene. Headed by Bill Malkasian for more than three decades, the group was often at odds with former Gov. Jim Doyle. But the association backed Scott Walker i... <more>
  
  
• Winston: WHEDA aiming to grow its economic development mission
  Wyman Winston, head of the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority since January, was trained as an architect. But he didn’t do design work for long. That's because he figured out he was more interested in thinking about why some communities were doing well, while others were struggli... <more>
  
  

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