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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers TABLE OF CONTENTS Quotes of the week Political stock report Fundraising costs make up more than half of new Feingold PAC’s spending Ethics Commission says it won’t issue penalties for lobbying violations found in audit Vinehout

On this week’s episode, WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and WisconsinEye’s Steve Walters discuss the reaction to the Trump administration’s steel and aluminum tariffs and the Marquette Law School Poll results.

Dem guv candidate Kathleen Vinehout says she’d support universal background checks for all gun sales. These checks, she added, would be applicable to federally-licensed dealers as well as gun sales among private individuals, which she argued should be allowed to

Strategic return of money to the taxpayers or panicked response to a Democratic surge? The WisOpinion Insiders, Jensen & Chvala, debate GOP spending items this election year.
Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.

On tariffs, Republicans like Ryan and others apparently know better than to aggressively criticize Trump so as not to offend his base within the GOP that seems perpetually angry.

At first blush, the president’s proposal may sound enticing and even patriotic — an “America First” policy designed to punish foreign exporters and benefit U.S. industries. But in fact, the opposite is true. Tariffs aren’t really taxes on imports — they are taxes on American families and American businesses.

Several union leaders I spoke with worry these are tariffs from a “president who wants to protect the industry, not the worker.”

The Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council could not have picked a worse recipient for its political openness award than Scott Walker.

RightWisconsin’s James Wigderson talks with Michael Jahr of the Badger Institute about the new Center for Opportunity, which will focus on public policy issues related to criminal justice reform and occupational licensing.

Legislation based on fleeting headlines is almost always a bad idea. Instead, we should offer politicians a new challenge: Post a video of yourselves resisting the temptation to grandstand.

The DNR has a credibility problem, having been stripped of authenticity and respectability by a Governor who intentionally installed across top management positions a ‘chamber of commerce mentality.’

Evidence shows he had Milwaukee cops digging for dirt on MaryNell Regan. Why?
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers TABLE OF CONTENTS Quotes of the week Political stock report Fundraising costs make up more than half of new Feingold PAC’s spending Ethics Commission says it won’t issue penalties for lobbying violations found in audit Vinehout says voters should consider her experience and performance, not gender

On this week’s episode, WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and WisconsinEye’s Steve Walters discuss the reaction to the Trump administration’s steel and aluminum tariffs and the Marquette Law School Poll results.

Dem guv candidate Kathleen Vinehout says she’d support universal background checks for all gun sales. These checks, she added, would be applicable to federally-licensed dealers as well as gun sales among private individuals, which she argued should be allowed to continue. “It’s a protection for the owner as much as

Strategic return of money to the taxpayers or panicked response to a Democratic surge? The WisOpinion Insiders, Jensen & Chvala, debate GOP spending items this election year.
Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.

On tariffs, Republicans like Ryan and others apparently know better than to aggressively criticize Trump so as not to offend his base within the GOP that seems perpetually angry.

At first blush, the president’s proposal may sound enticing and even patriotic — an “America First” policy designed to punish foreign exporters and benefit U.S. industries. But in fact, the opposite is true. Tariffs aren’t really taxes on imports — they are taxes on American families and American businesses.

Several union leaders I spoke with worry these are tariffs from a “president who wants to protect the industry, not the worker.”

The Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council could not have picked a worse recipient for its political openness award than Scott Walker.

RightWisconsin’s James Wigderson talks with Michael Jahr of the Badger Institute about the new Center for Opportunity, which will focus on public policy issues related to criminal justice reform and occupational licensing.

Legislation based on fleeting headlines is almost always a bad idea. Instead, we should offer politicians a new challenge: Post a video of yourselves resisting the temptation to grandstand.

The DNR has a credibility problem, having been stripped of authenticity and respectability by a Governor who intentionally installed across top management positions a ‘chamber of commerce mentality.’

Evidence shows he had Milwaukee cops digging for dirt on MaryNell Regan. Why?