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Elections Commission rejects GOP proposal for new guidance on observers

Tuesday, Oct 11, 2022

The state Elections Commission rejected a GOP effort to provide new guidance on what observers can do at the polls next month as Dems complained the proposal went beyond what’s allowed under state law. That leaves local clerks with no new directions on observer standards for the November election as the agency goes through the process of writing more detailed permanent rules on the topic.

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Johnson, Barnes spar over cash bail, crime in first debate

Friday, Oct 7, 2022

MILWAUKEE — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson on Friday slammed Dem rival Mandela Barnes for supporting an end to cash bail, accusing him of seeking to defund the police and making Wisconsin less safe.

Barnes fired back that Johnson had abandoned the officers trying to protect the U.S. Capitol during a violent protest on Jan. 6, 2021, accusing him of supporting the insurrection.

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Rewind: Your Week in Review for Oct. 7

Friday, Oct 7, 2022

On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Dems’ focus on abortion, a judge’s ruling blocking voters from spoiling and recasting absentee ballots, themes to watch for in the first U.S. Senate debate and more.

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Democrats’ swing-state local news ploy

Friday, Oct 7, 2022

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Oshkosh mayor shares details of her troubled past

Friday, Oct 7, 2022

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Dan O’Donnell: Biden’s energy debacle

Friday, Oct 7, 2022

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

Thursday, Oct 6, 2022

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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Elections Commission rejects GOP proposal for new guidance on observers

Tuesday, Oct 11, 2022

The state Elections Commission rejected a GOP effort to provide new guidance on what observers can do at the polls next month as Dems complained the proposal went beyond what’s allowed under state law. That leaves local clerks with no new directions on observer standards for the November election as the agency goes through the process of writing more detailed permanent rules on the topic.

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Johnson, Barnes spar over cash bail, crime in first debate

Friday, Oct 7, 2022

MILWAUKEE — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson on Friday slammed Dem rival Mandela Barnes for supporting an end to cash bail, accusing him of seeking to defund the police and making Wisconsin less safe.

Barnes fired back that Johnson had abandoned the officers trying to protect the U.S. Capitol during a violent protest on Jan. 6, 2021, accusing him of supporting the insurrection.

Read More »

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Oct. 7

Friday, Oct 7, 2022

On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Dems’ focus on abortion, a judge’s ruling blocking voters from spoiling and recasting absentee ballots, themes to watch for in the first U.S. Senate debate and more.

Read More »

Democrats’ swing-state local news ploy

Friday, Oct 7, 2022

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Oshkosh mayor shares details of her troubled past

Friday, Oct 7, 2022

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Johnson, Barnes to meet in first debate tonight

Friday, Oct 7, 2022

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

Friday, Oct 7, 2022

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

Thursday, Oct 6, 2022

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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