MADISON, WI — After NBC News reported yesterday that Ron Johnson’s campaign is currently retaining an attorney who tried to overturn the 2020 election results, two former Republican voters and current constituents of Johnson joined Mandela Barnes for Wisconsin in slamming Johnson for his role in the insurrection. On a press call today, Ashland city councilman Eric Lindell and Peter Sherrill of Kolberg—both former Republican voters who have left the GOP—blasted Ron Johnson for hiring the lawyer who attempted to get “fake electors” to former Vice President Mike Pence on January 6th and called Johnson out for repeatedly downplaying the violence during the

After a temporary pause, Wisconsin’s Help for Homeowners program has been extended through December 30. This unique program provides grants of up to $40,000 to income-eligible Wisconsin homeowners who have not been able to keep up with their mortgage, utility bills and/or property tax payments. Alderman Russell W. Stamper, II and Alderman Khalif J. Rainey are encouraging eligible local residents in need of assistance to take advantage of this opportunity. If you had previously started an application, you will now be able to complete and submit your application (by December 30). “Our community is still very much recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the new

Contact: Riley Vetterkind, riley.vetterkind@wi.gov MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Elections Commission this week will continue a postcard mailing initiative started in August as an additional step to ensure absentee voting remains a secure and reliable way to vote. On Monday, the WEC mailed 12,739 postcards to voters to affirm that those who requested to have their absentee ballot sent to an address other than their voter registration address did so themselves.  The Commission established the postcard mailing after alleged isolated attempts to submit fraudulent absentee ballot requests. The postcard serves as a transaction confirmation, alerting voters that a request was

MADISON – The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSC) is encouraging electric, natural gas, and water utility customers with outstanding bills to make payment arrangements with their provider or apply for financial assistance before the annual winter heating moratorium on disconnections begins. Every year, from November 1st to April 15th, utilities are prohibited from disconnecting customers’ utility service for nonpayment when that service is used for home heating. Although Wisconsin state law prohibits utilities from disconnecting essential services to residential customers during the moratorium period, customers currently disconnected must make arrangements to restore service. Utilities are not required to reconnect

WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) joined senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Mazie Hirono (D-HI), in sending a letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona urging him to use the Department of Education’s authority to hold executives and owners of predatory for-profit colleges accountable for scamming students out of a meaningful education and saddling them with insurmountable student debt while they count their profits. Holding these executives personally liable would allow the Department of Education to recoup the federal funds spent to rescue students from the mountains of debt they

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) today celebrated the 150th anniversary of Kimberly-Clark by entering a statement recognizing their contributions to Northeast Wisconsin into the Congressional Record, the document that reflects the official proceedings of Congress. The entry was presented to Group President of Kimberly-Clark North America, Russ Torres, by a member of Rep. Gallagher’s staff at the celebration that took place at the Kimberly-Clark Experimental Mill in Neenah, Wisconsin. Rep. Gallagher also delivered pre-recorded remarks at the celebration. Kimberly-Clark was founded in 1872 in Neenah, Wisconsin and has since grown to be a multinational, Fortune 500 corporation. The company

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As first reported by the National Review, Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and John Garamendi (D-CA) sent a letter to Treasury Secretary to Janet Yellen to ask why the Department of the Treasury has failed to list China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation Limited (CRRC) as a state-directed enterprise despite its clear link to the military of the People’s Republic of China and Congress’ express concern with CRRC in the FY 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). In part, the lawmakers wrote, “By its own estimate, CRRC currently controls more than 83 percent of the global rail market. Moreover, the company has made public its aim

MADISON, Wis. — New reporting from WPR today profiled how Governor Evers has used his veto pen to protect Wisconsinites from Republicans’ radical agenda. Republicans and Democrats alike agree that if Tim Michels were to become governor, there would be no check on the legislature, allowing Wisconsin to become a playground for the GOP’s worst policy ideas. Tim Michels has said that as governor, he looks forward to working with the legislature and “getting those bills right” that Gov. Evers has vetoed, including a bill that would endanger students by allowing loaded guns on school grounds. Legislative Republicans are eagerly anticipating having unchecked power

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR), in collaboration with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, the City of Portage, and Columbia County, celebrated today the culmination of a decades-long vision to clean up and restore the Portage Canal, revitalizing this community asset. Restoring the canal, which is the closest point in the state between the Fox River and the Wisconsin River, has been a multi-decade and multi-phase project. The project also exemplifies how various levels of government can work together as partners to accomplish a unified goal. “This impressive collection of local, state, and federal governments coming together to

“I promise you when we are here in one year with Gov. Michels, every single thing that Gov. Evers has vetoed is going to be considered by the Legislature,” Vos said. “And hopefully all of it becomes law.”  MADISON, Wis. — In case you missed it, WPR highlighted what’s at stake in November. If Tim Michels is elected governor, all of the radical Republican-led bills that Gov. Evers vetoed would become law. Some of these laws would allow parents to more easily sue schools, allow guns on school property, ban abortion access, and restrict voting access, especially those for seniors and voters