WED PM Update: Evers knocks Walker; ad wars begin in earnest; Milwaukee area helped propel Vukmir to victory

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Making his first stop after winning the party’s primary, Dem guv candidate Tony Evers today accused Gov. Scott Walker of breaking his promises to Wisconsin voters, while the ad wars started in earnest with new spots from the guv and the DGA. Walker’s first TV ad of the general election tells viewers “we’re just getting started…. 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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Dept. of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection: Conusmer Alert: Reports of fake IRS calls quadruple since last week

Media Contact:  Jerad Albracht, Senior Communications Specialist, 608-224-5007 or Bill Cosh, Communications Director, 608-224-5020 MADISON – Last Friday, DATCP issued a consumer alert after seeing an influx in reports from the public about fake IRS phone calls. Today alone, the Consumer Protection Hotline has received at least four times as many calls about this scam as on Friday. The scammers are threatening arrest if the call recipient does not make an immediate payment for phony taxes. Many callers to the hotline are distressed by the aggressive nature of the scammers’ demands. Please HANG UP on these fraudulent calls and take no further action

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Turnbull campaign: Dr. Maggie Turnbull, independent candidate for governor, says primary election shows the need for ranked choice voting

Contact: contact@maggieforgovenor.com, 715-610-0302 Many voters who cast their ballots in the just-completed partisan primary election are feeling dissatisfied, and that they will be stuck voting for the lesser of two evils in November.  Independent candidate for governor Dr. Maggie Turnbull wants to change that, starting with Wisconsin’s ballot system. Turnbull said the solution is ranked choice voting, a system used successfully in Maine during a June statewide election. In it, voters simply rank the candidates, from favorite to least favorite.  If a voter’s top choice doesn’t get a majority of the votes, then his or her vote goes their second choice,

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RAGA: Blasts activist, absent and amateur Wisconsin Democrat for AG

Contact: zroday@republicanags.com 203-640-9208 Hillary Clinton’s Lawyer is an Empty Suit, Not Ready to Lead The Republican Attorneys General Association released the following statement after Wisconsin Democrats selected Josh Kaul as their nominee for attorney general: “Josh Kaul should not be running for attorney general – he has zero interest in upholding the rule of law – he only cares about scoring political points and advancing an extreme, activist agenda,” said RAGA Executive Director Scott Will. “This makes sense: Kaul’s campaign is funded by Coastal elites as well as liberals from Madison and Milwaukee. Kaul is just an empty suit peddling liberal special interests.

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One Wisconsin Now: Momentum continues for Wisconsin progressives in primary election

MEDIA CONTACT Mike Browne, Deputy Director mike@OneWisconsinNow.org (608) 444-3483 People of Wisconsin Know We Can Do Better Than What We’ve Gotten From Scott Walker, GOP MADISON, Wis. — The following are the statements of One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross on the Wisconsin Primary Election results: “It’s no wonder Scott Walker and the Republicans are desperate and running scared. “Since the start of 2018, with historic wins in state Senate races and progressives’ convincing victory in the April statewide election for state Supreme Court, Democrats and progressives are showing up to vote and winning elections. “Up and down the ticket progressives

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WI Dept. of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection: Comments requested on Avipel

Contact:     Donna Gilson 608-224-5130, donna.gilson@wi.gov Bill Cosh, Communications Director, 608-224-5020, William2.Cosh@wi.gov MADISON – The public can comment through Aug. 22 on a special pesticide registration that would allow Wisconsin corn growers to treat seed with a non-lethal repellant to stop sandhill cranes from feeding on planted corn. The special registration proposed by the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection will allow field and sweet corn growers to use Avipel® Hopper Box (dry) Corn Seed Treatment. Avipel® Hopper Box (dry) contains the active ingredient 9, 10-anthraquinone. Arkion Life Sciences manufactures Avipel®. With support from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the International Crane Foundation and USDA-Wildlife Services, the

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Voces de la Frontera: Sweeping victories for Immigrant Rights Movement in Wisconsin primary elections

Contact: Sam Singleton-Freeman, 414-469-9206, sfreeman@vdlf.org MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN — Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary elections saw sweeping victories for candidates who made resistance to Trump’s attacks on immigrant families central to their platforms. In Milwaukee County, Earnell Lucas defeated ex-Sheriff David Clarke’s longtime assistant Richard Schmidt in a race that became a referendum on collaboration between the Milwaukee Sheriff’s Office and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In Congressional District 1, Randy Bryce became the Democratic nominee for Congress after advocating for a bold agenda that included Medicare for All, tuition-free public college, and the abolition of ICE. Marisabel Cabrera also won the Democratic nomination for State Assembly

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Speaker Ryan: Statement on WI-01 GOP primary

Ryan Congratulates Bryan Steil On His Primary Victory; Says That He’s The Right Person To Fill This Seat JANESVILLE, WI — House Speaker and Wisconsin’s First District Congressman Paul Ryan issued the following statement after Bryan Steil was declared the winner in the Republican primary to fill the seat that he will be retiring from in January, 2019: “Bryan Steil is the right person to represent this district in Congress and I congratulate him on his win tonight. I know Bryan will take his private sector skills and problem-solving abilities to Washington and fight every day to improve the lives of Southern Wisconsinites,

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DGA: Chair Inslee’s statement on Tony Evers’ primary victory in Wisconsin

Contact: Jared Leopold, 202-772-5600 leopold@dga.net Tonight, Democratic Governors Association Chair Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) released the following statement on State Superintendent Tony Evers winning the Democratic nomination for governor in Wisconsin: “I congratulate State Superintendent Tony Evers on earning the Democratic nomination for Governor in Wisconsin. Tony has spent his career working for the people of Wisconsin, educating children and bringing people together to get things done. After eight years of Governor Walker’s divisiveness and warped priorities that put his own political career ahead of Wisconsin’s schools, roads, and health care, it’s time for new leadership. And Tony is just

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DGA: Statement on Scott Walker’s nomination in Wisconsin

Contact: Jared Leopold, 202-772-5600 leopold@dga.net Tonight, Democratic Governors Association Executive Director Elisabeth Pearson released the following statement on Governor Scott Walker’s nomination in Wisconsin: “Scott Walker has spent the past 8 years putting his own political ambition ahead of the needs of Wisconsin’s families and small businesses. Wisconsin voters are ready for a change. They have had enough of slashed school funding, crumbling roads, and soaring health care costs under Walker. “Scott Walker is one of the nation’s most vulnerable incumbent governors this November. Walker has spent nearly $3 million on ads trying to rewrite his history of failed policies

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Bryce campaign: Republicans are terrified by Randy Bryce’s victory

For Immediate Release: August 15, 2018 Contact: Julia Savel, 973-525-5579, juliasavel@randybryceforcongress.com Randy Bryce receives more votes than Bryan Steil in Speaker Ryan’s R+5 District RACINE, WI – For the first time in almost two decades the Democratic nominee earned more votes than the Republican nominee in Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District Primary Election. Randy Bryce received 36,397 votes in a contested Democratic primary while Ryan’s handpicked replacement Bryan Steil received 30,883 with token opposition. That’s 5,514 more votes than the Republican in a district which has been in Republican control for 20 years. “Randy Bryce won a contested primary and Bryan Steil did not,” said Campaign

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New ad backing Evers highlights his career in education

The Democratic Governors Association, via a group called A Stronger Wisconsin, is launching a new TV ad touting Tony Evers’ career in education. The 30-second ad opens with footage of Gov. Scott Walker as the narrator says: “You know who they are, the politicians who only care about politics.” The spot then switches to a series of images of a younger Evers, as the narrator says, “But then there’s … 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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Dept. of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection: Conusmer Alert: Reports of fake IRS calls quadruple since last week

Media Contact:  Jerad Albracht, Senior Communications Specialist, 608-224-5007 or Bill Cosh, Communications Director, 608-224-5020 MADISON – Last Friday, DATCP issued a consumer alert after seeing an influx in reports from the public about fake IRS phone calls. Today alone, the Consumer Protection Hotline has received at least four times as many calls

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Turnbull campaign: Dr. Maggie Turnbull, independent candidate for governor, says primary election shows the need for ranked choice voting

Contact: contact@maggieforgovenor.com, 715-610-0302 Many voters who cast their ballots in the just-completed partisan primary election are feeling dissatisfied, and that they will be stuck voting for the lesser of two evils in November.  Independent candidate for governor Dr. Maggie Turnbull wants to change that, starting with Wisconsin’s ballot system. Turnbull said

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RAGA: Blasts activist, absent and amateur Wisconsin Democrat for AG

Contact: zroday@republicanags.com 203-640-9208 Hillary Clinton’s Lawyer is an Empty Suit, Not Ready to Lead The Republican Attorneys General Association released the following statement after Wisconsin Democrats selected Josh Kaul as their nominee for attorney general: “Josh Kaul should not be running for attorney general – he has zero interest in

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WI Dept. of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection: Comments requested on Avipel

Contact:     Donna Gilson 608-224-5130, donna.gilson@wi.gov Bill Cosh, Communications Director, 608-224-5020, William2.Cosh@wi.gov MADISON – The public can comment through Aug. 22 on a special pesticide registration that would allow Wisconsin corn growers to treat seed with a non-lethal repellant to stop sandhill cranes from feeding on planted corn. The special registration proposed by the Department

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Voces de la Frontera: Sweeping victories for Immigrant Rights Movement in Wisconsin primary elections

Contact: Sam Singleton-Freeman, 414-469-9206, sfreeman@vdlf.org MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN — Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary elections saw sweeping victories for candidates who made resistance to Trump’s attacks on immigrant families central to their platforms. In Milwaukee County, Earnell Lucas defeated ex-Sheriff David Clarke’s longtime assistant Richard Schmidt in a race that became a referendum on collaboration between the

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Speaker Ryan: Statement on WI-01 GOP primary

Ryan Congratulates Bryan Steil On His Primary Victory; Says That He’s The Right Person To Fill This Seat JANESVILLE, WI — House Speaker and Wisconsin’s First District Congressman Paul Ryan issued the following statement after Bryan Steil was declared the winner in the Republican primary to fill the seat that he will

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DGA: Chair Inslee’s statement on Tony Evers’ primary victory in Wisconsin

Contact: Jared Leopold, 202-772-5600 leopold@dga.net Tonight, Democratic Governors Association Chair Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) released the following statement on State Superintendent Tony Evers winning the Democratic nomination for governor in Wisconsin: “I congratulate State Superintendent Tony Evers on earning the Democratic nomination for Governor in Wisconsin. Tony has spent his

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DGA: Statement on Scott Walker’s nomination in Wisconsin

Contact: Jared Leopold, 202-772-5600 leopold@dga.net Tonight, Democratic Governors Association Executive Director Elisabeth Pearson released the following statement on Governor Scott Walker’s nomination in Wisconsin: “Scott Walker has spent the past 8 years putting his own political ambition ahead of the needs of Wisconsin’s families and small businesses. Wisconsin voters are

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Bryce campaign: Republicans are terrified by Randy Bryce’s victory

For Immediate Release: August 15, 2018 Contact: Julia Savel, 973-525-5579, juliasavel@randybryceforcongress.com Randy Bryce receives more votes than Bryan Steil in Speaker Ryan’s R+5 District RACINE, WI – For the first time in almost two decades the Democratic nominee earned more votes than the Republican nominee in Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District Primary Election. Randy Bryce received

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New ad backing Evers highlights his career in education

The Democratic Governors Association, via a group called A Stronger Wisconsin, is launching a new TV ad touting Tony Evers’ career in education. The 30-second ad opens with footage of Gov. Scott Walker as the narrator says: “You know who they are, the politicians who only care about politics.” The

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