69th AD candidate weigh in on Medicaid expansion

All but one of the GOP candidates for the Eau Claire-area’s 69th Assembly District oppose Gov. Tony Evers’ Medicaid expansion plan, despite the recession and a drop in state revenues. Michael Smith, 61, is a retired plant manager at Mitchell

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THU PM Update: Commission’s first review finds enough signatures for West to make prez ballot, but challenge deadline looming tomorrow

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Elections Commission’s initial review of entertainer Kanye West’s nomination papers puts him above the signature threshold needed to qualify for Wisconsin’s presidential ballot. But there is a deadline tomorrow to file challenges to his nomination papers, and the commission won’t determine

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69th AD candidate weigh in on Medicaid expansion

All but one of the GOP candidates for the Eau Claire-area’s 69th Assembly District oppose Gov. Tony Evers’ Medicaid expansion plan, despite the recession and a drop in state revenues. Michael Smith, 61, is a retired plant manager at Mitchell Metal Products and a small business owner. He jumped into

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Anti-Trump group Rural America 2020 makes first inroads into Wisconsin

A new non-profit “dedicated to highlighting the negative impacts of President Trump’s policies in rural America” today announced its first inroads into Wisconsin. Rural America 2020, a 501(c)(4) organization, unveiled members of its Wisconsin steering committee, a group it says is committed to “leading the charge to highlight the negative

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Review finds host of problems with Kanye West’s nomination papers

Entertainer Kanye West filed some 2,800 signatures in his bid to qualify for Wisconsin’s presidential ballot, above the minimum needed under state law, according to a WisPolitics.com review of his nomination papers. Still, the papers had a host of problems, including incomplete entries and duplicate signers, that could invalidate numerous

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