Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers today vetoed a $2.2 billion GOP tax package, ripping it as a failure by Republican lawmakers to address the state’s most pressing issues. Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, fired back the Dem guv had again rejected meaningful tax

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and the Evers administration — two parties often at loggerheads politically — are both urging the state Supreme Court to reject a challenge to the state’s school choice system and instead require the case to go through the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly Sporting Heritage Committee today approved 7-4 along party lines a bill to require DNR to set a statewide population goal in its wolf management plan. The Natural Resources Board last month approved a plan that eliminated the previous 350-wolf goal

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly Sporting Heritage Committee today approved 7-4 along party lines a bill to require DNR to set a statewide population goal in its wolf management plan. The Natural Resources Board last month approved a plan that eliminated the previous 350-wolf goal

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The state Senate today approved sweeping changes to Wisconsin’s alcohol policies, using the amendment process to bypass a committee holdup that had prevented the package from coming to the floor. The Senate added a more than 150-page amendment to a second bill

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Ahead of tomorrow’s floor vote, two GOP state senators are calling for a ticket tax on Brewers games as part of a package to finance maintenance at the stadium. Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Melissa Agard, D-Madison, said she asked for a meeting

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly today approved a series of election bills, including new whistleblower protections for clerks and allowing them to start processing absentee ballots before election day. Lawmakers passed via voice vote AB 567, which backers said would speed up the process of

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — At least nine members of the state Senate are now publicly on record backing a bill to finance maintenance of the Milwaukee Brewers stadium after the amended measure cleared two committees today. That means backers need the support of eight more to

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu told WisPolitics today the Senate plans next week to take up a bill to fund maintenance at the Milwaukee Brewers stadium after an amendment was introduced to lower the state’s commitment while pulling in more money from the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman said a new $32 million proposal will “go some ways” toward addressing the state’s workforce needs as UW seeks to recoup money GOP lawmakers cut from its budget over diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. “The investments

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos today sent to committee a resolution to impeach the state’s top election official, six weeks after five lawmakers introduced the proposal and on the heels of a new TV campaign pressuring him to move on it. A Vos

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — An Assembly committee gave bipartisan support today to legislation that would give utilities a leg up on building new transmission lines, even as those on both sides of the vote said they may switch their position on the floor depending on what

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dem Gov. Tony Evers said today he was compelled to sue the state Legislature after GOP lawmakers decided to “stick it” to UW employees by holding up their pay raises over a policy dispute. The suit, which asks the state Supreme Court

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers believes the $646 million Brewers stadium maintenance bill that cleared the Assembly on a bipartisan vote is a good deal for taxpayers as well as Milwaukee, and he’s lobbying Senate Dems to back the bill. Evers told WisconsinEye he’s

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly Campaigns and Elections Committee Chair Scott Krug and ranking Dem member Lee Snodgrass agree the push to impeach Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe “is a distraction.” The Republican head of the committee at a WisPolitics luncheon at the Madison Club said

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — A GOP architect of legislation to pump public money into maintenance of the Milwaukee Brewers stadium today floated a series of expected changes the Senate could make to the legislation, including adding a ticket tax on non-baseball activities. But state Rep. Rob

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers spokesperson Britt Cudaback tells WisPolitics the guv will work “expeditiously” to find a replacement for DNR Secretary Adam Payne, who will step down Nov. 1. Payne in a resignation letter to Gov. Tony Evers on Friday said he would

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — State officials are touting Wisconsin’s precision medicine “Tech Hub” designation as a win for the state’s biohealth industries. The U.S. Department of Commerce today announced the Wisconsin Biohealth Tech Hub effort, led by Madison-based BioForward Wisconsin, is one of 31 such initiatives

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — GOP lawmakers in a hearing today knocked Dems for not supporting a redistricting plan they say closely mirrors past Dem bills to create a new commission to draw Wisconsin’s political boundaries. But Dems countered the GOP bill omits important provisions to ensure

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — A Dane County judge today quashed subpoenas for former Supreme Court Justices Pat Roggensack and Jon Wilcox in a lawsuit over Assembly Speaker Robin Vos seeking advice on whether to impeach liberal Janet Protasiewicz. Judge Frank Remington noted both Wilcox and former