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Four vie for UW-Madison chancellor post
Four finalists are vying replace retiring John Wiley as chancellor of UW-Madison. It's one of five chancellor vacancies in the UW System in addition to openings at Green Bay, Parkside, River Falls, Whitewater. The selection of final candidates, announced May 7, culminates a three-month search by th... <more>
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Decker: Legislative leaders "fairly close" on budget repair
Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker said in a WisPolitics interview last week that he and Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch are "fairly close in concept" to agreement on how to address the projected $525 million budget deficit. Asked if Gov. Jim Doyle wasn't on the same page, Decker said, "That's accur... <more>
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McCain's Midwest Regional Director focusing on Wisconsin, Michigan
While working for Rudy Giuliani’s campaign in New Hampshire, Jennifer Hallowell had a view of John McCain’s comeback from the outside. “I had a front row seat to history in a lot of ways,” Hallowell said of her days in New Hampshire during a new interview with WisPolitics. Now, she's hoping to ca... <more>
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8th CD fall rematch set
Freshman Dem Congressman Steve Kagen of Appleton urges Fox Valley constituents to allow him to "finish the job we've started." Former GOP Assembly Speaker John Gard says, "We need a new direction in Washington," calling the capital a "mess" where "poisonous partisan feuds" dominate. With Gard's f... <more>
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Excerpt from Wisconsin Votes: An Electoral History by Robert Booth Fowler
Editor's Note: This text is excerpted from Wisconsin Votes: An Electoral History, by Robert Booth Fowler. Fowler will appear at a WisPolitics.com Luncheon on May 6. C... <more>
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Wasserman pledges three-term limit if elected to Senate
Since the start of his 13-year legislative career, Rep. Sheldon Wasserman has taken the bus from his home district of Milwaukee to Madison for session days. Wasserman, a Democrat, conducts legislative meetings by phone or fax when he can. He estimates taking public transportation has saved the state... <more>
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Darling says constituent relations, issues will carry her to re-election
With four terms in the state Senate, Alberta Darling says she’s learned it takes more than doing doors to remain in the Legislature. “I don’t think it’s just doors,” Darling, a Republican from Rivers Hills, says in a new interview with WisPolitics. “I believe in the Tommy Thompson axiom that you g... <more>
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Earth Day: April 22, 2008
Click the links below for more information on Wisconsin events planned to commemorate the 38th annual celebration of Earth Day. Federal government link: http://www.earthday.gov/ State government link with history and events: a href="http://www.dnr.wi.gov/org/cae... <more>
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WisPolitics E-Profile: Scot Ross
Scot Ross used to be a good bowler. “Now I’m a really lousy bowler who tries to convince people I used to be a really good bowler,” he writes in a new WisPolitics e-profile. Ross, 38, ran for secretary of state in 2006. Now he's executive director of the liberal-leaning One Wisconsin Now & the ... <more>
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Excerpt from With Honor: Melvin Laird in War, Peace, and Politics by Dale Van Atta
Editor's Note: This text is excerpted from With Honor: Melvin Laird in War, Peace, and Politics by Dale Van Atta. Van Atta will appear at a WisPolitics.com Breakfast on April 22. Click here for more information.On the ni... <more>
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Schmitz says liberals don't have winning message on law enforcement
They were talking points that most Supreme Court campaign watchers can now recite in their sleep: Burnett County Judge Michael Gableman is law enforcement’s choice, and he is a conservative jurist who won't legislate from the bench. Darrin Schmitz, the campaign consultant who led Gableman’s camp... <more>
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Gableman Defeats Butler in State Supreme Court Race
Michael Gableman won all but 15 counties on spring Election Day, erasing big margins for Louis Butler in Milwaukee and Dane counties to become the first challenger in 41 years to beat an incumbent state Supreme Court justice.Gableman's victory will tilt the high court to the right and is a big victo... <more>
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Kreuser hopes to go home to Kenosha Co. government
It took the right job opportunity to convince Jim Kreuser to make a run at a return home. Kreuser announced this week he was running for Kenosha County executive to fill the post left open by the resignation of Allan Kehl, who faces federal charges. Kreuser said he’s passed up other opportunitie... <more>
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Working together would make a better Washington, former Congressman, Defense Secretary Laird says
Former Defense Secretary and Wisconsin Congressman Mel Laird, a Republican, says in a new interview that if he could change one thing about Washington, it would be the partisanship. "Cut out the shouting. Start working together," Laird says in the latest Reader's Digest magazine. Laird, 85, ai... <more>
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Budget repair underway at Capitol
Only five months after sealing the deal on a two-year budget plan, Capitol leaders are again working on the state budget. A slowing economy means revenue projections used to build the two-year budget plan are flawed, forcing Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle, the Republican-led Assembly and the Democratic... <more>
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Water compact moving slowly in Assembly
The Great Lakes water compact has bogged down in the Assembly, with the GOP-run body rejecting Democratic attempts on March 11 to take it up. Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle also is urging Assembly action on the compact bill passed on a bipartisan vote of the Democratic-run state Senate. Rep. Scott Gu... <more>
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WisPolitics Video: Gableman, Butler featured in WisPolitics Speaker Series
Burnett County Judge Michael Gableman told a Madison audience in late February that Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler’s record reflects his past as a public defender while promising to give law enforcement a fair shake. Butler countered this month that Gableman should be running for district attorn... <more>
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Taylor: 'People are ready for change'
Milwaukee County voters would “get a little bit of Barack and a little bit of Hillary all together” should they vote her in as county executive, state Sen. Lena Taylor jokes in a new WisPolitics interview. “No one has to decide whether or not they want the woman. No one has to decide whether or n... <more>
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Wiley reflects on GOP prez race
The primary battlefield is littered with the tattered remains of great general election candidates. Rick Wiley said you can add Rudy Giuliani to that list. Wiley is now relaxing in New York City after spending almost a year as Giuliani’s national deputy political director. The former New York may... <more>
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Lawton undecided on third term
Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton insists she’s ready to take over as governor should the need arise. But she isn’t sure right now whether she wants to take another run at lieutenant governor in 2010. Lawton told media outlets, including WisPolitics, that she is undecided at this point whether she wants t... <more>