DPI spring primary turnout just above 8 percent

Just more than 8 percent of voters cast ballots in the spring primary, a better turnout than the previous three with a race for state superintendent on the ballot. According to unofficial returns collected by The Associated Press posted earlier

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Walker, Schimel push for Senate vote on Neil Gorsuch

Gov. Scott Walker and AG Brad Schimel today pushed for U.S. Senate Dems to give President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, an up-or-down vote. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has said Gorsuch would need to clear the 60-vote

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Dave Zweifel: So far Donald Trump has done zilch for working stiffs

Donald Trump promised all of us that he was going to help America’s forgotten working people who’ve been abandoned by the powers that be in this country. I’m trying to figure out, though, how this city slicker’s initial actions are going to help the beleaguered working stiffs he claims to care so much about.

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WED News Summary: Senate leader’s bill would relax high-capacity well regs

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Access the mobile version of the News Summary: https://www.wispolitics.com/2017/wed-news-summary-senate-leaders-bill-would-relax-high-capacity-well-regs/ **************************************** Order the 2017 WisPolitics.com Directory & Almanac today Get to know Wisconsin’s members of Congress, Legislature and executive branch. Buy the 2017 WisPolitics.co… Please log in

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DPI spring primary turnout just above 8 percent

Just more than 8 percent of voters cast ballots in the spring primary, a better turnout than the previous three with a race for state superintendent on the ballot. According to unofficial returns collected by The Associated Press posted earlier this afternoon, 360,559 votes were cast for state superintendent, the

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Walker, Schimel push for Senate vote on Neil Gorsuch

Gov. Scott Walker and AG Brad Schimel today pushed for U.S. Senate Dems to give President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, an up-or-down vote. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has said Gorsuch would need to clear the 60-vote filibuster hurdle to get a vote on the floor. But

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Holtz email: Reform group asked him to run, offered campaign support

State schools superintendent challenger Lowell Holtz wrote in an email last January that a “reform group” asked him to run for the post and guaranteed it’d do “all of the fundraising, organizing, etc.” associated with the election bid, according to an email released by One Wisconsin Now. Records obtained by

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Dave Zweifel: So far Donald Trump has done zilch for working stiffs

Donald Trump promised all of us that he was going to help America’s forgotten working people who’ve been abandoned by the powers that be in this country. I’m trying to figure out, though, how this city slicker’s initial actions are going to help the beleaguered working stiffs he claims to care so much about.

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WED News Summary: Senate leader’s bill would relax high-capacity well regs

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Access the mobile version of the News Summary: https://www.wispolitics.com/2017/wed-news-summary-senate-leaders-bill-would-relax-high-capacity-well-regs/ **************************************** Order the 2017 WisPolitics.com Directory & Almanac today Get to know Wisconsin’s members of Congress, Legislature and executive branch. Buy the 2017 WisPolitics.co… Please log in to access subscriber content. If you don’t have a subscription,

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WED AM Update: Evers, Holtz to square off in general election

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Association of Wisconsin Lobbyists From WisPolitics.com … — State Superintendent Tony Evers says his primary victory can be chalked up to a focus on the state’s public school kids — and not on the “kind of weird politics and policies” that plagued his challengers. Evers

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