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Contact: Ian Martorana This week is already shaping up to be busy in Wisconsin’s First District. Paul’s employers in the First District care about jobs, so that’s his focus too. On Thursday morning, Paul attended the groundbreaking of Building One for SHINE Medical. The opening of SHINE’s first facility—where they will begin to build prototypes and train employees –is just the latest example of Wisconsin being open for business. Foxconn, Dollar General, and now SHINE are diverse businesses—a high tech manufacturer, a retailer, and a developer of medical isotopes—and they have all chosen to create jobs here in Wisconsin. As

[Madison, WI]— With thousands of Wisconsinites traveling to the Wisconsin State Fair, the Republican Party of Wisconsin is launching a billboard in downtown Milwaukee to highlight Senator Baldwin for her defense of the Washington status quo over hard-working Wisconsin veterans and families—specifically those she failed at the Tomah VA. “Senator Baldwin has spent nearly twenty years defending the status quo over hard-working Wisconsinites,” said Alec Zimmerman, spokesman for the Republican Party of Wisconsin. “Whether it is her failure to help veterans who were in danger at the Tomah VA, or her repeated obstruction of reforms in Washington, Senator Baldwin is

Contact: Elizabeth Altman (608) 264-5158 MADISON, WIS. –Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Juan Tamez Diaz, 41, Madison, Wis., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to four years in federal prison for tax fraud and identify theft.  Tamez Diaz pleaded guilty to these charges on December 22, 2016.    From January 2009 to May 2015, Tamez Diaz obtained the names, Social Security numbers, and Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers of various individuals.  He also obtained employer information from six legitimate companies, and then used this information to create fictitious

The President today announced that he has nominated ten individuals to the following Federal judgeships and four individuals to the following U.S. Attorney positions.  If confirmed, Michael B. Brennan of Wisconsin will serve as a Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.  Mr. Brennan currently serves as a partner in the Milwaukee law firm Gass Weber Mullins LLC, where he tries cases and handles appeals in Federal and state courts involving commercial and tort disputes, and he serves as a mediator and an arbitrator.  Before that, Mr. Brennan served for nine years as a judge

Contact: 608.266.5580 MADISON, WI – State Representative David Crowley (D-Milwaukee), issued the following statement in response to the Assembly Jobs Committee hearing on proposed Foxconn legislation. “First, let me be clear: I support creating jobs in Wisconsin, for Wisconsinites. However, the legislative process surrounding this particular proposal is moving too fast for any of us to make an informed and accurate decision about whether or not to support the Foxconn legislative proposal put before us today. Given the lack of details we have on a bill that would cost the state in excess of $3 billion, it would be irresponsible

Contact: Brian Rothgery, Public Information Manager 414-278-4230 or brian.rothgery@milwaukeecountywi.gov MILWAUKEE – The Board of Supervisors voted 13 – 1 (Alexander) to override the County Executive’s veto of a resolution that limits excessive pay for highly compensated political appointees and returns the directors of five major County departments or divisions to their approved pay grades.  “With this veto, the County Executive remains focused on maintaining excessive salaries for his political appointees while neglecting other important duties of his office,” said Board Chairman Theodore Lipscomb, Sr. “It’s striking that he found time to veto an item that eliminates a potential $750,000 in

Contact: 608-266-5715 Madison, WI—2017 Wisconsin Act 49, authored by Representative Cody Horlacher (R-Mukwonago) and co-authored by Senator Devin LeMahieu (R-Oostburg), was signed into law yesterday by Governor Walker. This bill repeals unnecessary regulations and streamlines the overall process of bus purchasing. Previously, Department of Transportation regulations prohibited the purchase of school buses older than 5 years from outside the state. Working with local stakeholders and school districts, Horlacher created a bill to cut this unnecessary regulation. The bill does not change any safety standards, it simply allows purchasers to competitively bid for buses Representative Horlacher is confident this law, “rolls

Contact: Jamie Mara (920) 209-3990 jmara@widba.com GREEN BAY, Wis. (Aug. 3, 2017) — Standing up for hundreds of dairy farmers across Wisconsin, the Dairy Business Association is demanding that the state rein in the Department of Natural Resources for overreaching its legal authority on key regulations. The dairy group on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the DNR that centers on how the agency implements new regulations without going through an approval process required by state law. The lawsuit deals specifically with one example of this pattern of unlawful behavior: changes to how farmers manage rainwater that comes into contact with