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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers TABLE OF CONTENTS Quotes of the week Political stock report GOP lawmakers who sought budget vetoes from guv largely unsuccessful Two pro-Nicholson groups drop another $1.2 million on independent expenditures this week Morning Consult’s Ramlet: Wisconsin

This week on “Rewind” Wisconsin Eye Senior Producer Steve Walters and WisPolitics.com Editor JR Ross discuss lowering the state’s drinking age to 19, Mahlon Mitchell joining the Dem guv field, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson’s opposition to the tax overhaul bills in Congress and more.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, debate the merger of the UW colleges with nearby four-year institutions. Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.

Before Walker, Wisconsin politics were spirited yet civil, but have been replaced today by scorched-earth, single-party governance so toxic that Walker refuses to appear in public before any skeptical audience. Sycophants only, please.

While the record shows just how cynical his worry about Democrats’ outside money is, the truth is that Gov. Scott Walker doesn’t just wallow in money lavished on him by outside contributors. He’s owned by them.

A great way to get donations from billionaires like Sheldon Adelson.

Hordes of Wisconsin government workers are employed to ‘check boxes’ for the feds.

The decision by the student government at UW-Stevens Point to deny recognition to students attempting to form a chapter of Turning Point USA is a sign of a wider intolerance of free speech on college campuses.

I’m an urban liberal who voted for Hillary Clinton, but when I sit for hours in my deer stand I remind myself of the value of being settled and maybe I start to understand, just a little bit, what it means to feel unrooted in a world you don’t know. This doesn’t make me want to change my political stripes, but it does argue for a change in attitude.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Dec. 19: WisPolitics Luncheon with Senate candidate Leah Vukmir Join WisPolitics.com for lunch at the Madison Club, 5 East Wilson St., Madison, on Tuesday Dec. 19 with U.S. Senate candidate Leah Vukmir, a Brookfield Republican
Sign up here for our DC Wrap weekly email newsletter to stay up to date on Wisconsin’s congressional delegation. The U.S. House Thursday signed off on its GOP tax overhaul bill, although it’s unclear what fate the plan will have in the Senate. The House

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Dem guv candidate Dana Wachs says the state’s youth prisons should be closed. Wachs, a Dem state rep from Eau Claire, said in a statement last night those
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers TABLE OF CONTENTS Quotes of the week Political stock report GOP lawmakers who sought budget vetoes from guv largely unsuccessful Two pro-Nicholson groups drop another $1.2 million on independent expenditures this week Morning Consult’s Ramlet: Wisconsin GOP could face ‘challenging environment’ in 2018 Week ahead Political

This week on “Rewind” Wisconsin Eye Senior Producer Steve Walters and WisPolitics.com Editor JR Ross discuss lowering the state’s drinking age to 19, Mahlon Mitchell joining the Dem guv field, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson’s opposition to the tax overhaul bills in Congress and more.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, debate the merger of the UW colleges with nearby four-year institutions. Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.

Before Walker, Wisconsin politics were spirited yet civil, but have been replaced today by scorched-earth, single-party governance so toxic that Walker refuses to appear in public before any skeptical audience. Sycophants only, please.

While the record shows just how cynical his worry about Democrats’ outside money is, the truth is that Gov. Scott Walker doesn’t just wallow in money lavished on him by outside contributors. He’s owned by them.

A great way to get donations from billionaires like Sheldon Adelson.

Hordes of Wisconsin government workers are employed to ‘check boxes’ for the feds.

The decision by the student government at UW-Stevens Point to deny recognition to students attempting to form a chapter of Turning Point USA is a sign of a wider intolerance of free speech on college campuses.

I’m an urban liberal who voted for Hillary Clinton, but when I sit for hours in my deer stand I remind myself of the value of being settled and maybe I start to understand, just a little bit, what it means to feel unrooted in a world you don’t know. This doesn’t make me want to change my political stripes, but it does argue for a change in attitude.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Dec. 19: WisPolitics Luncheon with Senate candidate Leah Vukmir Join WisPolitics.com for lunch at the Madison Club, 5 East Wilson St., Madison, on Tuesday Dec. 19 with U.S. Senate candidate Leah Vukmir, a Brookfield Republican state senator. Check-in and lunch begins at 11:30 a.m., with
Sign up here for our DC Wrap weekly email newsletter to stay up to date on Wisconsin’s congressional delegation. The U.S. House Thursday signed off on its GOP tax overhaul bill, although it’s unclear what fate the plan will have in the Senate. The House approved the bill 227-205, with 13 Republicans joining all Dems

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Dem guv candidate Dana Wachs says the state’s youth prisons should be closed. Wachs, a Dem state rep from Eau Claire, said in a statement last night those incarcerated at the Lincoln Hills School for Boys and the