MON PM Update: Filing deadline extended for 59th AD candidates

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Candidates for the 59th AD will have an extra three days to file their nomination papers after Rep. Jesse Kremer failed to file his notice of non-candidacy by Friday’s deadline, according to the Elections Commission’s administrator. Kremer, R-Kewaskum, announced earlier this year he would not seek re-election. RACC’s Jenny Toftn… 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     Forgot Password

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Gov. Walker: Governor Walker awards $7.8 million for broadband infrastructure upgrades to 252 school districts

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 21, 2017 Contact: Amy Hasenberg, (608) 266-2839 MADISON – Governor Scott Walker visited the Mosinee School District today to announce 252 school districts in Wisconsin were awarded $7.8 million in Technology for Educational Achievement (TEACH) Information Technology Infrastructure grants. Since the program was created in 2016, the program has awarded more than $13 million in grants. “We are pleased to announce 252 school districts across the state will receive grants to increase and improve technology in their classrooms,” Governor Walker said. “We are investing more actual dollars into public classrooms than ever before, increased technology in

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WisDems: Brad Schimel forced Wisconsin taxpayers to foot bill for visit to hate group

For Immediate Release May 21, 2018 Contact: Melanie Conklin, 608-260-2409 “This is a new low for Brad Schimel who has used his office time and time again to promote extremism and division while abandoning the basic duties of his job.” MADISON — Attorney General Brad Schimel’s Department of Justice spent about $1,000 of taxpayer money to send one of Schimel’s top lawyers to a conference held by a known hate group that has supported the recriminalization of homosexuality and state-sanctioned sterilization of transgender people. According to his own financial reports, Schimel, who also attended, considered the trip a political or

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Dept. of Natural Resouces: Great Lakes states to collaborate on West Nile virus monitoring in ruffed grouse

CONTACT: Mark Witecha, upland wildlife ecologist, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, 608-267-7861; Charlotte Roy, grouse project leader, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, 218-328-8876; Kelly Straka, State Wildlife Veterinarian with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, 517-336-5030 MADISON – A region-wide effort to better understand West Nile virus in ruffed grouse is getting underway in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. “In the Great Lakes Region, West Nile virus has been found in a small number of grouse with no known population-level effects at this point,” said Charlotte Roy, grouse project leader with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. “Still, we want to

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WisDems: Vukmir and Nicholson embrace zero-exception abortion ban, ‘personhood’

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, May 21, 2018 Contact: Brad Bainum, bradb@wisdems.org “[A] personhood measure could criminalize certain forms of birth control” MADISON — In case you missed it, Republican Party of Wisconsin-endorsed U.S. Senate candidate Leah Vukmir and her primary opponent Kevin Nicholson have wholly embraced hardline restrictions on women’s health care options, backing a zero-exception ban on all abortions — including in cases of rape, incest, and to save the life of the mother — and endorsing a “personhood” measure that “could criminalize certain forms of birth control.” Via the Wisconsin State Journal: Wisconsin’s top Republican U.S. Senate candidates, Kevin Nicholson and Leah Vukmir, told

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Women’s March Wisconsin, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests: Sexual assault survivors and their allies call on every candidate running for elected office in Wisconsin to offer public support for the Child Victims Act.

Spokespersons for sexual assault survivors will be outside the Milwaukee Press Club Luncheon Tuesday, May 22nd at 10:30am to answer questions related to the Child Victims Act and recent responses by the Flynn campaign. CONTACT Sarah Pearson State Co-Chair Women’s March Wisconsin 414.366.5403 sarah@womensmarchwi.com Peter Isely Founding Member and former Midwest Director of SNAP (The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) 414.429.7259 peterisely@yahoo.com We believe that sexual violence is a political problem that demands a political response. We are asking today that every candidate running for elected office in Wisconsin offer public support for the Child Victims Act. The basic and fundamental protections

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Bryce campaign: Statement on Supreme Court private arbitration case

Contact: Julia Savel, 973-525-5579, juliasavel@randybryceforcongress.com RACINE, WI – Randy Bryce released the following statement on the Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis case. “Today’s Supreme Court decision upheld the right for bosses and corporations to give their workers an ultimatum in their employment letter– sign a gag order or face unemployment. Many workers face all too common problems like sexual harassment and wage discrimination, and now they’re left with no legal option but to try and take their claims to their bosses’ hand-picked arbiter in mediation. This is a slap in the face to everyone who works for a living and

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One Wisconsin Now: Gov. Scott Walker’s state lawyer secretly joined Attorney General Brad Schimel, Department of Justice lawyers at hate group conference

MEDIA CONTACT Mike Browne, Deputy Director mike@OneWisconsinNow.org (608) 444-3483 Anti-LGBTQ Alliance Defending Freedom Picked Up Tab For Walker Lawyer to Discuss Their Agenda at Luxury Resort MADISON, Wis. — Media reports, based on records obtained by One Wisconsin Now, reveal a top lawyer in Gov. Scott Walker’s office joined Attorney General Brad Schimel and two Department of Justice lawyers attending a controversial conference hosted by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). According to a Walker spokesperson, state employee J.D. Tripoli had all expenses covered by the ADF, classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, to attend their

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U.S. Rep. Gallagher: Launches bipartisan Trauma-Informed Care Caucus

Contact: Madison Wiberg Madison.Wiberg@mail.house.gov Washington, D.C. – Today Rep. Mike Gallagher, along with his colleague Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL), launched the Trauma-Informed Care Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bipartisan caucus will work to increase awareness in Congress of Trauma-Informed Care (TIC), the science-based treatment framework used to address the root causes of major public health issues in the U.S., including addiction, mental health, and obesity. After announcing the caucus, Rep. Gallagher said, “Trauma-Informed Care presents a unique opportunity for members of Congress—both Republicans and Democrats—to come together and improve health outcomes for the millions of children, families, and adults across

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WisDems: Statement on the harm Gov. Walker has done to Wisconsin classrooms

Contact: Melanie Conklin, 608-260-2409 MADISON — Today Gov. Scott Walker continues to promote his visits to schools in an attempt to cover up his established record of years of cuts to public education that have forced districts to go to referendum and voluntarily raise their own taxes just to fund their classrooms and make needed improvements. Below is a statement from the Democratic Party of Wisconsin on Walker’s true impact on schools across Wisconsin. “Scott Walker cut more than a billion dollars from our public classrooms while giving even more money to his corporate donors and special interests,” said Melanie

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Barnes campaign: Democracy for America (DFA) endorses Mandela Barnes for Lieutenant Governor

Contact: Justin Bielinski justin@mandelabarnes.com 414-208-9283 Barnes joins Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Randy Bryce as the only Wisconsin candidates to receive the progressive group’s endorsement in 2018 Milwaukee: Democracy for America (DFA), a member-driven progressive political organization founded by Gov. Howard Dean in 2004, has endorsed Mandela Barnes for Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin. Barnes joins US Senator Tammy Baldwin and 1st Congressional District Candidate Randy Bryce as the only Wisconsin candidates to be endorsed by DFA in 2018. Jim Dean, Director of DFA, released the following statement: “Mandala Barnes is not only a hero in his home state of Wisconsin for

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MON PM Update: Filing deadline extended for 59th AD candidates

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Candidates for the 59th AD will have an extra three days to file their nomination papers after Rep. Jesse Kremer failed to file his notice of non-candidacy by Friday’s deadline, according to the Elections Commission’s administrator. Kremer, R-Kewaskum, announced earlier this year

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Gov. Walker: Governor Walker awards $7.8 million for broadband infrastructure upgrades to 252 school districts

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 21, 2017 Contact: Amy Hasenberg, (608) 266-2839 MADISON – Governor Scott Walker visited the Mosinee School District today to announce 252 school districts in Wisconsin were awarded $7.8 million in Technology for Educational Achievement (TEACH) Information Technology Infrastructure grants. Since the program was created in 2016,

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Dept. of Natural Resouces: Great Lakes states to collaborate on West Nile virus monitoring in ruffed grouse

CONTACT: Mark Witecha, upland wildlife ecologist, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, 608-267-7861; Charlotte Roy, grouse project leader, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, 218-328-8876; Kelly Straka, State Wildlife Veterinarian with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, 517-336-5030 MADISON – A region-wide effort to better understand West Nile virus in ruffed grouse

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Women’s March Wisconsin, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests: Sexual assault survivors and their allies call on every candidate running for elected office in Wisconsin to offer public support for the Child Victims Act.

Spokespersons for sexual assault survivors will be outside the Milwaukee Press Club Luncheon Tuesday, May 22nd at 10:30am to answer questions related to the Child Victims Act and recent responses by the Flynn campaign. CONTACT Sarah Pearson State Co-Chair Women’s March Wisconsin 414.366.5403 sarah@womensmarchwi.com Peter Isely Founding Member and former Midwest Director

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Bryce campaign: Statement on Supreme Court private arbitration case

Contact: Julia Savel, 973-525-5579, juliasavel@randybryceforcongress.com RACINE, WI – Randy Bryce released the following statement on the Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis case. “Today’s Supreme Court decision upheld the right for bosses and corporations to give their workers an ultimatum in their employment letter– sign a gag order or face unemployment.

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One Wisconsin Now: Gov. Scott Walker’s state lawyer secretly joined Attorney General Brad Schimel, Department of Justice lawyers at hate group conference

MEDIA CONTACT Mike Browne, Deputy Director mike@OneWisconsinNow.org (608) 444-3483 Anti-LGBTQ Alliance Defending Freedom Picked Up Tab For Walker Lawyer to Discuss Their Agenda at Luxury Resort MADISON, Wis. — Media reports, based on records obtained by One Wisconsin Now, reveal a top lawyer in Gov. Scott Walker’s office joined Attorney

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U.S. Rep. Gallagher: Launches bipartisan Trauma-Informed Care Caucus

Contact: Madison Wiberg Madison.Wiberg@mail.house.gov Washington, D.C. – Today Rep. Mike Gallagher, along with his colleague Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL), launched the Trauma-Informed Care Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bipartisan caucus will work to increase awareness in Congress of Trauma-Informed Care (TIC), the science-based treatment framework used to address

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Barnes campaign: Democracy for America (DFA) endorses Mandela Barnes for Lieutenant Governor

Contact: Justin Bielinski justin@mandelabarnes.com 414-208-9283 Barnes joins Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Randy Bryce as the only Wisconsin candidates to receive the progressive group’s endorsement in 2018 Milwaukee: Democracy for America (DFA), a member-driven progressive political organization founded by Gov. Howard Dean in 2004, has endorsed Mandela Barnes for Lieutenant Governor

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