Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Three Senate Dems pitched their caucus colleagues today to back their bids for minority leader as they look to succeed Melissa Agard, D-Madison. Dianne Hesselbein, of Middleton, Kelda Roys, of Madison, and Jeff Smith, of Brunswick, each circulated letters to colleagues today

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Proponents of a bill to offer a tax credit for businesses that operate child care programs for their employees said the measure would help mitigate the state’s workforce shortage during an Assembly hearing today. Co-author Sen. Dan Feyen told the Assembly Ways

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce today urged a GOP-controlled Assembly committee to modify or object to proposed surface water pollution regulations. But the DNR argued failing to approve the rule could lead the federal government to step in. The proposed revision updates the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Appeals Court Judge Maria Lazar says she’s still weighing whether to run for the state Supreme Court in 2025 as former GOP AG Brad Schimel prepares to launch his bid. Schimel, a Waukesha County Circuit Court judge, has a “special announcement” planned

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … Subscribers: Tomorrow’s AM Update and News Summary will be the final products of the week due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Normal product delivery will resume Monday. Thank you for subscribing! — Conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley asked a series of pointed questions today suggesting

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