Dan O’Donnell: Biden’s energy debacle

Rather than admit his mistake in dramatically slowing down domestic drilling, Biden shortsightedly bled the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to its lowest level in nearly 40 years and naively assumed he could trust the Saudis to bail him out of the jam he created.

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Johnson, NRSC teaming up in new ads

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has teamed up with the National Republican Senatorial Committee to run nearly $5.6 million in TV ads from Sept. 1 through Thursday. That includes a series of ads in recent weeks that paint Dem rival Mandela

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M.D. Kittle: WEC’s invalid guidance

A Waukesha County Judge recently ruled Wisconsin Elections Commission decisions lacking a 4-2 majority vote by the six-member commission are invalid. That means election law “guidance” crafted by WEC staff isn’t legal or binding. Yet, many of those edicts remain on WEC’s website.

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Johnson, Barnes to meet in first debate tonight

GOP U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson and Dem rival Mandela Barnes will meet tonight in the first of two debates. The event, sponsored by the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association, is set to kick off at 7 p.m. Some 70 stations will air the debate live, as will C-SPAN and WisconsinEye. The debate

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Dan O’Donnell: Biden’s energy debacle

Rather than admit his mistake in dramatically slowing down domestic drilling, Biden shortsightedly bled the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to its lowest level in nearly 40 years and naively assumed he could trust the Saudis to bail him out of the jam he created.

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Johnson, NRSC teaming up in new ads

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has teamed up with the National Republican Senatorial Committee to run nearly $5.6 million in TV ads from Sept. 1 through Thursday. That includes a series of ads in recent weeks that paint Dem rival Mandela Barnes as a “radical leftist” who’s “dangerously liberal on crime.”

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Senate Leadership Fund hits Barnes over late property taxes

The GOP-aligned Senate Leadership Fund is up with new ads knocking Dem U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes for being late in paying property taxes. According to AdImpact, the group is scheduled to spend $2.2 million on TV in Wisconsin from yesterday through Monday. It’s scheduled to spend $11 million from

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Republicans seek to have absentee ballot lawsuit moved to Waukesha

Republicans who sued to prevent local clerks from adding missing information from witness addresses on absentee ballots want a Dane County lawsuit over what constitutes a complete address moved to Waukesha County. Rise Inc. and a fourth-year UW-Madison student who works for the organization last month filed the suit seeking

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Waukesha County judge rules voters can’t recast absentee ballots

A Waukesha County judge has granted a temporary injunction requested by those seeking to block voters from recasting their absentee ballots if they change their minds, according to online court records. Judge Brad Schimel, the former GOP attorney general, ordered his injunction to take effect at 4 p.m. tomorrow. During

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M.D. Kittle: WEC’s invalid guidance

A Waukesha County Judge recently ruled Wisconsin Elections Commission decisions lacking a 4-2 majority vote by the six-member commission are invalid. That means election law “guidance” crafted by WEC staff isn’t legal or binding. Yet, many of those edicts remain on WEC’s website.

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