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Wisconsin’s governor’s veto authority makes him or her too powerful. It was true for Governor Walker. It is true for Governor Evers. It will be true for the next governor. It will be true for the one after that unless we change it.
And returns $23 dollars for every $1 invested. Strong state support pays off.
A Wisconsin legal expert talks about gerrymandering.
Robert M. La Follette died in 1925, having transformed Wisconsin and made it a North Star for the nation. William T. Evjue lived on to 1970. Their legacies have been battered by politicians without conscience, the Scott Walkers and Paul Ryans who used Wisconsin as a springboard for their national ambitions, but they have not been erased.
Rep. Mike Gallagher was the only GOP member of Wisconsin’s congressional delegation to directly address President Donald Trump’s tweets attacking four Dem congresswomen of color. The Green Bay Republican highlighted a slate of important proposals that will come to the
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Appeals Court Judge Lisa Neubauer outraised and outspent rival Brian Hagedorn in a losing effort for a state Supreme Court seat, according to campaign finance reports. But
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers raised $656,763 over the first six months of the year, his campaign says. That’s $161,000 more than the guv raised over the first half of 2018 as he sought
Two GOP lawmakers are circulating a proposed constitutional amendment that would further reign in the guv’s line-item veto authority after Gov. Tony Evers used that power to boost per-pupil state aid by $87 million in the budget. Guvs typically can’t
Wisconsin’s governor’s veto authority makes him or her too powerful. It was true for Governor Walker. It is true for Governor Evers. It will be true for the next governor. It will be true for the one after that unless we change it.
And returns $23 dollars for every $1 invested. Strong state support pays off.
A Wisconsin legal expert talks about gerrymandering.
Robert M. La Follette died in 1925, having transformed Wisconsin and made it a North Star for the nation. William T. Evjue lived on to 1970. Their legacies have been battered by politicians without conscience, the Scott Walkers and Paul Ryans who used Wisconsin as a springboard for their national ambitions, but they have not been erased.
Rep. Mike Gallagher was the only GOP member of Wisconsin’s congressional delegation to directly address President Donald Trump’s tweets attacking four Dem congresswomen of color. The Green Bay Republican highlighted a slate of important proposals that will come to the House floor this week and lamented that Trump comments will
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Appeals Court Judge Lisa Neubauer outraised and outspent rival Brian Hagedorn in a losing effort for a state Supreme Court seat, according to campaign finance reports. But Hagedorn, who will be sworn in next month as the
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers raised $656,763 over the first six months of the year, his campaign says. That’s $161,000 more than the guv raised over the first half of 2018 as he sought the Dem guv nomination. But it’s also well short of
Two GOP lawmakers are circulating a proposed constitutional amendment that would further reign in the guv’s line-item veto authority after Gov. Tony Evers used that power to boost per-pupil state aid by $87 million in the budget. Guvs typically can’t increase spending with their partial veto authority. But Evers used