JFC co-chairs demand Evers administration use existing vacancies for wanted new jobs

The Joint Finance Committee co-chairs today refused to take up requests from the Evers administration to create 21 new positions, instead ordering the asks to be resubmitted after identifying existing vacancies that could be used to cover the proposed jobs. Last month, state agencies sent Finance requests to create more than 60 new jobs, and the committee had planned to review 21 at today’s hearin… 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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RNC aims to boost turnout in WOW counties to help Trump hold Wisconsin

President Donald Trump’s strategy for holding Wisconsin in 2020 is to boost turnout in Washington, Ozaukee and Waukesha Counties by touting a strong economy and manufacturing industry in the state. “We’re running a campaign in Wisconsin based upon those issues,” Rick Gorka, deputy communications director for the Republican National Committee, said today in a Trump Victory Committee teleconference. “And we know that when we put the President’s record of accomplishment up against what the Democrats are offering for 2020 that we’re going to carry the state again.”  Trump won Wisconsin over then-Dem candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election

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THU PM Update: JFC signs off on DOJ settlement for first time under lame-duck process

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee today for the first time signed off on a proposed settlement worked out by DOJ under December’s lame-duck laws. But Dem members continued to knock the GOP-run committee for what they said is a broken process that is delaying court procedures. Rep. Evan Goyke, D-Milwaukee, said the case, an action bro… 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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U.S. Sen. Johnson: Requests Clinton-Obama Emails form U.S. National Archives and Re

Contact: Austin Altenburg WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, sent a letter to Archivist David Ferriero of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Thursday to request email communication between former Secretary Clinton and President Obama. Based on a communication from FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok to FBI Director James Comey’s Chief of Staff James Rybicki, there appears to be multiple emails that exist between Secretary Clinton and President Obama. On June 28, 2016, a week before former FBI Director Comey’s public statement exonerating Secretary Clinton, FBI Special Agent Strzok wrote,

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Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice: Report Advocates Privitizing Schools Overseas, but Without Convincing Evidence

Contact: William J. Mathis: (802) 383-0058, wmathis@sover.net Frank Adamson: (916) 278-4639, adamson@csus.edu Key Takeaway: Little support is provided for claims in ideologically biased report. EAST LANSING, MI (October 31, 2019) – A new report, Beyond the Mirage: How Pragmatic Stewardship Could Transform Learning Outcomes in International Education Systems, prescribes a shift in the leadership role of education ministers – from providers and guarantors of education to pragmatic stewards of education systems. Frank Adamson, of California State University, Sacramento, reviewed the report and found that its use of questionable evidence and possible conflicts of interest were enough to “render the report’s recommendations unsubstantiated.” While the report appears to have

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Wisconsin Dairy Alliance: Dairymen Confront State of Betrayal

Phone: 920-483-0476 Email address: info@wisconsindairyalliance.org Website: www.wisconsindairyalliance.org Wisconsin’s heritage as “America’s Dairyland” hangs by a thread. Pounded by trade-war-fueled tariffs, distressed milk prices and extreme weather events, the dairy industry is in the fifth year of a crushing economic downturn that has resulted in the closing of at least two dairies a day throughout the downturn. When farmers once could turn to the state Department of Agriculture for support, they now find themselves out on an island, miles away from a typically supporting agency who now is seemingly determined to heighten anxiety by putting farmers in the midst of an additional crisis.

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Weekly GOP Radio Address

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RNC aims to boost turnout in WOW counties to help Trump hold Wisconsin

President Donald Trump’s strategy for holding Wisconsin in 2020 is to boost turnout in Washington, Ozaukee and Waukesha Counties by touting a strong economy and manufacturing industry in the state. “We’re running a campaign in Wisconsin based upon those issues,” Rick Gorka, deputy communications director for the Republican National Committee,

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Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice: Report Advocates Privitizing Schools Overseas, but Without Convincing Evidence

Contact: William J. Mathis: (802) 383-0058, wmathis@sover.net Frank Adamson: (916) 278-4639, adamson@csus.edu Key Takeaway: Little support is provided for claims in ideologically biased report. EAST LANSING, MI (October 31, 2019) – A new report, Beyond the Mirage: How Pragmatic Stewardship Could Transform Learning Outcomes in International Education Systems, prescribes a shift in the leadership role of

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Wisconsin Dairy Alliance: Dairymen Confront State of Betrayal

Phone: 920-483-0476 Email address: info@wisconsindairyalliance.org Website: www.wisconsindairyalliance.org Wisconsin’s heritage as “America’s Dairyland” hangs by a thread. Pounded by trade-war-fueled tariffs, distressed milk prices and extreme weather events, the dairy industry is in the fifth year of a crushing economic downturn that has resulted in the closing of at least two dairies a

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Weekly GOP Radio Address

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