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On this week’s episode, WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and WisconsinEye’s Steve Walters discuss the GOP leaders’ call for Ethics and Elections commission Administrators Brian Bell and Michael Haas to resign; reports this week that House Speaker Paul Ryan’s stepping down in 2018; and the Dec. 19 special elections.
The two Dem candidates vying for the 66th AD in Racine both say they would have voted against the Foxconn deal on the Assembly floor — a bill that the seat’s current occupant, Rep. Cory Mason, voted to support. That’s

Gov. Scott Walker Friday repeatedly declined to weigh in on whether the administrators at the Ethics and Elections commissions should step down following the DOJ’s John Doe leak report. Walker answered a series of reporters’ questions on the topic this
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers TABLE OF CONTENTS Quotes of the week Political stock report Eschewing tradition, Supreme Court candidate Burns openly shares political views Walker mum on whether Ethics, Elections commission administrators should resign Dems vying for 66th AD share
The three Dem candidates facing off in the 10th SD primary later this month are bringing very different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives to the race. Still, the trio agrees that Foxconn is a bad deal for the state, with each
Several issues set apart GOP Reps. Adam Jarchow and Shannon Zimmerman as they seek the open 10th SD. Among them: Foxconn, the budget and taxes. Their campaign bank accounts is another issue that could play in the Dec. 19 primary

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala & Jensen, review the best and worst stories of 2017. Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.

The word “decency” came to mind after Alabama’s U.S. Senate race this week, when a decent and moderate Democrat named Doug Jones stunned Roy Moore, the loutish and eccentric abuser of laws and allegedly teenage girls.

Reports that he’s looking to the exits actually make sense.

It wasn’t long ago that Wisconsin wielded oversized influence in national politics. At the beginning of the decade, the Washington Post reported that the state “could shape the direction of the GOP.”

The news of House Speaker Paul Ryan’s impending retirement is, at the very least, premature.

Tax benefits for the rich, coal for the rest of us.

It’s the children who have the most to worry about from a Trump regime. Not just the children in actual age but the budding offspring of business entrepreneurship.

5 Reasons Schimel’s John Doe leak report is such a partisan hack job.
On this week’s episode, WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and WisconsinEye’s Steve Walters discuss the GOP leaders’ call for Ethics and Elections commission Administrators Brian Bell and Michael Haas to resign; reports this week that House Speaker Paul Ryan’s stepping down in 2018; and the Dec. 19 special elections.
The two Dem candidates vying for the 66th AD in Racine both say they would have voted against the Foxconn deal on the Assembly floor — a bill that the seat’s current occupant, Rep. Cory Mason, voted to support. That’s because, the two said in separate interviews with WisPolitics.com this

Gov. Scott Walker Friday repeatedly declined to weigh in on whether the administrators at the Ethics and Elections commissions should step down following the DOJ’s John Doe leak report. Walker answered a series of reporters’ questions on the topic this afternoon with variations of “I think the report speaks for
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers TABLE OF CONTENTS Quotes of the week Political stock report Eschewing tradition, Supreme Court candidate Burns openly shares political views Walker mum on whether Ethics, Elections commission administrators should resign Dems vying for 66th AD share similar views, highlight different backgrounds Week ahead Political TV Names
The three Dem candidates facing off in the 10th SD primary later this month are bringing very different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives to the race. Still, the trio agrees that Foxconn is a bad deal for the state, with each of them telling WisPolitics.com in separate interviews they’d look to
Several issues set apart GOP Reps. Adam Jarchow and Shannon Zimmerman as they seek the open 10th SD. Among them: Foxconn, the budget and taxes. Their campaign bank accounts is another issue that could play in the Dec. 19 primary for the GOP nomination in the race to succeed Sheila

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala & Jensen, review the best and worst stories of 2017. Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.

The word “decency” came to mind after Alabama’s U.S. Senate race this week, when a decent and moderate Democrat named Doug Jones stunned Roy Moore, the loutish and eccentric abuser of laws and allegedly teenage girls.

Reports that he’s looking to the exits actually make sense.

It wasn’t long ago that Wisconsin wielded oversized influence in national politics. At the beginning of the decade, the Washington Post reported that the state “could shape the direction of the GOP.”

The news of House Speaker Paul Ryan’s impending retirement is, at the very least, premature.

Tax benefits for the rich, coal for the rest of us.

It’s the children who have the most to worry about from a Trump regime. Not just the children in actual age but the budding offspring of business entrepreneurship.

5 Reasons Schimel’s John Doe leak report is such a partisan hack job.