For more information, contact: James Madlom 262-770-5189 Info@FoxconnRacineCounty.com Mount Pleasant, Wis. – April 25, 2018 – The following statements were issued today regarding the Department of Natural Resource’s approval of the City of Racine’s straddling community water diversion application for Great Lakes water on behalf of the Village of Mount Pleasant: President David DeGroot, Village of Mount

CONTACT: Jim Dick, DNR Director of Communications, James.Dick@wisconsin.gov, 608-267-2773 MADISON, Wis. – The Department of Natural Resources issued an approval today allowing the city of Racine to divert an annual average of 7 million gallons a day of water from Lake Michigan for its customers within the village of Mount Pleasant. The

Contact: Andy Nelson, Media Manager | Office: (414) 475-8675 | Email: nelsonai@milwaukee.k12.wi.us Change in calendar due to snow day in February MILWAUKEE, WI — The end of the school year is approaching and Milwaukee Public Schools has a necessary change to the last day of school for all 9th to

Contact: Lucas For Milwaukee INFO@LUCASFORMKE.COM “It’s time to move forward and start a new chapter in the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office. Our citizens have had enough of the costly litigation, wasted taxpayers’ dollars and failures to respect human dignity. They want a Sheriff whose only focus is making our community

Contact: Melissa Miller, 202-875-9188 miller@dga.net Today, Vice President Pence is in Wisconsin to bail out his buddy Governor Scott Walker’s floundering campaign. And it’s no wonder why Pence is committed to keeping Walker in power: the two are in lockstep when it comes to putting special interests and their campaign

Contact: Amy Hasenberg, (608) 266-2839   Governor encourages farmers who suffered damage to report it to their county Farm Services Agency (FSA) office   MADISON – Governor Scott Walker today visited Birlings Bovines in Black Creek and Sievert Farms in Sobieski to hear from farmers who were impacted by the strong

Contact: Steven Michels, (608) 267-7874   Dept. of Administration: State of Wisconsin Receives “A” Grade for Transparent Government   MADISON – The State of Wisconsin received an “A” grade by the United States Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) Education Fund for providing online access to government spending data.  U.S. PIRG issued

Contact: Logan Vidal logan.vidal@legis.wisconsin.gov (608) 266-8570 Madison – Today, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson announced a plan to triple the rents paid by some recipients of federal housing subsidies. In response, Rep. Anderson released the following statement: “Across the country, housing shortages and skyrocketing rents have pinched

Contact: Rick Coelho, 262-236-6918 Glenn’s on board for huge federal transfers to big corporations and the very wealthiest. Does he support state taxpayer dollars for a foreign company? Grafton – Later this afternoon, Glenn Grothman will participate in a forum with Vice President Mike Pence, Governor Scott Walker, and Foxconn

Contact: Rep. John Jagler (608) 266-9650 Watertown: Following the federal criminal complaint in which women were allegedly trafficked and forced into prostitution in two Dodge county strip clubs, Representative Jagler (R-Watertown) is hosting a presentation by Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt and his investigative team on human trafficking. “My office

MEDIA CONTACT Mike Browne, Deputy Director mike@OneWisconsinNow.org (608) 444-3483 Questions Continue to Mount About Vos Relationship With Rosenberger Amid FBI Investigation MADISON, Wis. — Reporting on an Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) inquiry of Cliff Rosenberger, who until his recent abrupt resignation served as Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, continues

Contact: Sam Singleton-Freeman, 414-469-9206, sfreeman@vdlf.org MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN – Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to visit Milwaukee Wednesday to hold a fundraiser for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Pence’s visit comes during a time of sweeping attacks on immigrant communities. In Wisconsin, Waukesha County Sheriff Eric Severson appears to be moving

CONTACT: DWD Communications, 608-266-2722 On the Web: http://dwd.wisconsin.gov/dwd/news.htm On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/WIWorkforce On Twitter: @WIWorkforce MADISON – The Department of Workforce Development (DWD) today released the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimates of unemployment and employment statistics for metro areas, major cities, and counties in Wisconsin. The estimates include updates

Mark Bednar; 202-738-0744 Washington DC – Wisconsin Congressman Sean Duffy, Chairman of the Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing & Insurance, today with nine other members of the Rural Relief Initiative, sent a letter to House Energy & Commerce Chairman Greg Walden, urging him to consider specific policy solutions to the

Contact: Libbie Wilcox (202) 495-8879 Washington, DC – On Wednesday, Reps. Moore and Veasey join Planned Parenthood Executive Vice President Dawn Laguens and local Planned Parenthood leaders to sound the alarm on the Trump Administration’s efforts to undermine essential health care programs for women. Speakers will address the ways anti-women’s-healthmembers

Contact: Deb Dorshorst debdorshorst@gmail.com mobile: 715-581-6324 Three well-known local citizens will take part in a panel discussion on the three branches of government at an annual Law Day event from 6-9 p.m. on May 3 at the UW-Marathon County Auditorium in Wausau. Adults and students are invited to attend this

Contact – Dennis Hughes | (262) 455-1542 | dennis@cathymyersforcongress.com Janesville, WI –Cathy Myers, a Janesville School Board Member and Democrat running for Congress in Wisconsin’s 1st District, announced today the launch of Teachers and Students for Cathy. The program, which will hire students and teachers as summer organizers, is the

Contact: Alec Zimmerman (608) 257-4765 [Madison, WI] — Today Vice President Mike Pence, Governor Scott Walker, and Congressman Glenn Grothman will meet in Wisconsin to talk about the impact of tax cuts and other Republican reforms that are putting hard-working Wisconsin families first. Thanks to their leadership, Republicans are delivering

CONTACT Mike Browne, Deputy Director mike@OneWisconsinNow.org (608) 444-3483 MADISON, Wis. — April 25, 2012 is recognized as the day student loan debt in the United States reached the $1 trillion mark. Six years later, student loan debt now exceeds $1.5 trillion, more than all other consumer debt except home mortgage