VoteVets launches $1 million ad buy backing Baldwin

The progressive VoteVets today announced a $1 million TV and digital ad buy praising U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and defending her against “political attacks” on the Tomah VA scandal. The ad buy comes days after conservative Concerned Veterans for America unveiled its own $1.5 million statewide TV and digital ad campaign targeting Baldwin, D-Madison, on the issue.   But the VoteVets ad, which feature… Please log in to access subscriber content. If you don’t have a subscription, click here for a WisPolitics free trial and to view the different subscription options. Username or E-mail Password * Remember Me    

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THU PM Update: Walker, Vos reach deal on child tax credit, sales tax holiday; Fitzgerald non-committal

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos today praised a deal he reached with Scott Walker to overhaul the guv’s child tax credit and add a sales tax holiday, saying it was a creative way to boost the economy. But Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, who was not part of the agreement announced this morning, was non-committal about its pro… Please log in to access subscriber content. If you don’t have a subscription, click here for a WisPolitics free trial and to view the different subscription options.

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Vukmir Campaign: Students choose Leah Vukmir for U.S. Senate

Contact: Jessica Ward, (414) 422-5712 Brookfield, Wis. — Nurse and U.S. Senate candidate Leah Vukmir announced the Students Choose Leah coalition Thursday, indicating broad energetic support among young voters. “As I talk to college students across Wisconsin, they are energized about the bold reforms we’ve passed to improve our state,” Leah said. “When college students look at the crushing national debt and obligations they’ll be committed to pay back, they want a proven leader who will take the tough votes, making their future stronger.” “Students know Leah is someone they can trust to represent the values they care about,” said Alesha Guenther,

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Votes Vet: Veterans come out strong for Tammy Baldwin, in new $1 Million ad campaign

CONTACT: Eric Schmeltzer, eric@votevets.org Madison, WI – A powerful $1 million television and digital ad campaign, launching today, features Wisconsin veterans praising the leadership of Senator Tammy Baldwin, as a champion for those who served.  The ad, running over the next three weeks, will cover all of the state, reaching Wisconsin residents multiple times.  The ad is being sponsored by VoteVets Action Fund, the largest progressive group of veterans in America with 19,000 veteran, military family, and civilian supporters in Wisconsin. The full ad script is below. The ad can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSuIasIB0uw A high-resolution download link, for broadcast purposes, can

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Gov. Walker: Delivers remarks on Health Care Stability Plan at Wisconsin Hospital Association board meeting

Contact: Amy Hasenberg, (608) 266-2839 MADISON – Governor Scott Walker met with board members from the Wisconsin Hospital Association today to discuss his Health Care Stability Plan, a major part of his Ambitious Agenda for 2018. As proposed, the three-part plan would request a State Innovation Waiver to create a state reinsurance program, enact legislation that prohibits insurance companies from denying coverage to individuals with preexisting conditions, and request a permanent waiver for the state’s SeniorCare program. “Wisconsin is a national leader in health care quality in large part because of the work of the Wisconsin Hospital Association. With our Health

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UW-Madison: Bucky’s tuition promise

CONTACT: Karla Weber, Office of Student Financial Aid, (608) 262-4942, karla.weber@wisc.edu MADISON – Over the last several years, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has taken numerous steps to ensure that an education at the state’s flagship public university is accessible to Wisconsin students and affordable for their families. Today, UW-Madison expands on that commitment by announcing “Bucky’s Tuition Promise.” With this major new investment, UW-Madison pledges to cover four years of tuition and segregated fees for any incoming freshman from Wisconsin whose family’s annual household adjusted gross income is $56,000 or less, roughly the median family income in Wisconsin. Transfer students from Wisconsin

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The Badger Institute: Value-added tolling would address Gov. Walker’s concerns

Feb. 8, 2018 – The Badger Institute and the Reason Foundation said Thursdaythe state should pursue tolling and offered a solution to concerns expressed by Gov. Scott Walker. “The stars seem to be aligned for Wisconsin to join the ranks of states deciding to rebuild and modernize their Interstate highways using the revenues from all-electronic tolling,” said Robert W. Poole Jr., director of transportation policy at the Reason Foundation and author of the Badger Institute report Rebuilding and Modernizing Wisconsin’s Interstates with Toll Financing. “Leaders in both houses of the Legislature representing both parties are favorable to the idea. The Trump Administration’s new infrastructure

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One Wisconsin Now: Latest crisis shows the only job Scott Walker cares about is his own

Mike Browne, Deputy Director mike@OneWisconsinNow.org (608) 444-3483 MADISON, Wis. — According to media reports, alarm bells were being raised about paper industry job losses by a local official in the Fox Valley last year. But Gov. Scott Walker waited until nearly a week after an announcement 600 jobs would be lost and mere minutes before a Democratic press conference, to declare, via Twitter, he would consider doing something. “The only Wisconsin job Scott Walker cares about saving is his own,” said One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross. “The fact is he has sat idly by while hundreds of jobs

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Sen. Cowles: Senate Committee passes amended wetland reform bill

Senator Robert Cowles ~ (920) 660-0615 MADISON– Senator Robert Cowles (R-Green Bay) released the following statement after 2017 Senate Bill 600, authored by Senator Roger Roth (R-Appleton) and Representative Jim Steineke (R-Kaukauna) and amended by Senators Roth and Cowles, was recommended for passage by the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy: “Since Senate Bill 600’s referral in early December, my staff and I have been working diligently with the bill’s authors to address concerns that have been raised by several stakeholders. While this legislation underwent several iterations, the Senate Substitute Amendment constitutes the greatest balance between conservation and community growth. This

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VoteVets launches $1 million ad buy backing Baldwin

The progressive VoteVets today announced a $1 million TV and digital ad buy praising U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and defending her against “political attacks” on the Tomah VA scandal. The ad buy comes days after conservative Concerned Veterans for America unveiled its own $1.5 million statewide TV and digital ad

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Vukmir Campaign: Students choose Leah Vukmir for U.S. Senate

Contact: Jessica Ward, (414) 422-5712 Brookfield, Wis. — Nurse and U.S. Senate candidate Leah Vukmir announced the Students Choose Leah coalition Thursday, indicating broad energetic support among young voters. “As I talk to college students across Wisconsin, they are energized about the bold reforms we’ve passed to improve our state,” Leah said.

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UW-Madison: Bucky’s tuition promise

CONTACT: Karla Weber, Office of Student Financial Aid, (608) 262-4942, karla.weber@wisc.edu MADISON – Over the last several years, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has taken numerous steps to ensure that an education at the state’s flagship public university is accessible to Wisconsin students and affordable for their families. Today, UW-Madison expands on that

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Sen. Cowles: Senate Committee passes amended wetland reform bill

Senator Robert Cowles ~ (920) 660-0615 MADISON– Senator Robert Cowles (R-Green Bay) released the following statement after 2017 Senate Bill 600, authored by Senator Roger Roth (R-Appleton) and Representative Jim Steineke (R-Kaukauna) and amended by Senators Roth and Cowles, was recommended for passage by the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy:

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