
Elections Commission seeking additional $3.2M in state aid in next budget
The Wisconsin Elections Commission voted 5-1 to approve seeking an additional $3.2 million in state aid for its 2025-27 biennium budget.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission voted 5-1 to approve seeking an additional $3.2 million in state aid for its 2025-27 biennium budget.

8th Congressional candidates Tony Wied, R-De Pere, and Kristin Lyerly, D-Green Bay, have agreed to debate Sept. 27.

Meanwhile, the spread in the U.S. Senate race in head-to-head questions closely matched the presidential race for the first time this year after Dem incumbent Tammy Baldwin has consistently run ahead of the top of the ticket in previous Marquette polls.

Liberal Justice Jill Karofsky questioned the intent of a group seeking records of those who have been judged incompetent, suggesting the Wisconsin Voter Alliance was trying to create fear of “some sort of illegitimacy” with state elections. Meanwhile, Conservative Justice Brian Hagedorn during Tuesday’s oral arguments said regardless of the motives of any public records request, he questioned if the records being sought were even subject to the open records law.

Dodge County’s Republican sheriff pressed three municipal clerks not to use absentee ballot drop boxes this fall, warning it could create the appearance of fraud and “degrade trust in our system,” according to records obtained by WisPolitics.

Trump also said he’d sign pardons on “day one” of his presidency for those convicted of charges related to violent attack on the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, drawing a rebuke from Kamala Harris’ campaign.

On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss President Joe Biden’s visit to Westby, presidential campaign visits, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawsuit to be removed from Wisconsin’s presidential ballot, political ad spending, controversy over student test score changes and more.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the status of Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race between challenger Eric Hovde and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

A Waukesha County judge has ruled the Wisconsin Elections Commission has improperly delegated its power to agency staff to decide complaints.

Biden announced $7.3 billion for 16 cooperatives in the country that provide electric and clean energy alternatives in rural areas and small towns. The first co-op to be chosen was Dairyland Power Cooperative in La Crosse. The cooperative in Westby is a member coop of Dairyland.

Forward Latino and Voces de la Frontera want a Waukesha County Circuit Court to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to force the Elections Commission to use DOT records to cross-check voter registrations to ensure they’re U.S. citizens.

In the filing, Kennedy’s attorneys argue Wisconsin law inappropriately creates a different standard for third-party candidates because Democrats and Republicans have until 5 p.m. on the first Tuesday in September ahead of an election to certify who their presidential nominee will be.

Speaking to Laborfest, the Minnesota guv noted he was a dues-paying member of his union while a teacher and recounted how GOP opponents once accused him in a campaign of being in the pocket of organized labor. “I said that’s a damned lie. I am the pocket. I am the pocket,” Walz said.

“We talk about a race, this one is literally a race,” Warren said on WISN’s “UpFront,” produced in partnership with WisPolitics. “She has not been a candidate for a year, or even four years, like Donald Trump has. She has been our presidential candidate for something that can be counted in just a handful of weeks. And what she’s doing, everything she can to reach people all across the country.”

On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss presidential campaign visits, November ballot access, absentee ballot drop boxes, a planned legislative audit of the Department of Public Instruction’s monitoring of school district finances, Children and Families Secretary Emilie Amundson announcing plans to leave the Evers administration and more.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, handicap Wisconsin’s 3rd and 8th Congressional District races and whether the GOP can hold those seats. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

The former president answered four questions from voters at the La Crosse Center, where he appeared onstage for about 30 minutes to weigh in on issues including illegal immigration, inflation, crime and national security. Trump also answered questions from the moderator, former Hawaii U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, an ex-Democrat who has endorsed his campaign.

The campaign finance reports — filed more than a month late — also show the two committees raised more than $1.3 million through the end of June with most of that coming from an Arkansas philanthropist.

GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance says it’s “ridiculous” Robbery F. Kennedy Jr. will remain on the Wisconsin ballot in November — even though state law doesn’t provide a way to meet his request to be left off.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission put independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Green Party’s Jill Stein on Wisconsin’s presidential ballot despite partisan disagreements over whether they belong there.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission voted 5-1 to approve seeking an additional $3.2 million in state aid for its 2025-27 biennium budget.

8th Congressional candidates Tony Wied, R-De Pere, and Kristin Lyerly, D-Green Bay, have agreed to debate Sept. 27.

Meanwhile, the spread in the U.S. Senate race in head-to-head questions closely matched the presidential race for the first time this year after Dem incumbent Tammy Baldwin has consistently run ahead of the top of the ticket in previous Marquette polls.

Liberal Justice Jill Karofsky questioned the intent of a group seeking records of those who have been judged incompetent, suggesting the Wisconsin Voter Alliance was trying to create fear of “some sort of illegitimacy” with state elections. Meanwhile, Conservative Justice Brian Hagedorn during Tuesday’s oral arguments said regardless of the motives of any public records request, he questioned if the records being sought were even subject to the open records law.

Dodge County’s Republican sheriff pressed three municipal clerks not to use absentee ballot drop boxes this fall, warning it could create the appearance of fraud and “degrade trust in our system,” according to records obtained by WisPolitics.

Trump also said he’d sign pardons on “day one” of his presidency for those convicted of charges related to violent attack on the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, drawing a rebuke from Kamala Harris’ campaign.

On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss President Joe Biden’s visit to Westby, presidential campaign visits, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawsuit to be removed from Wisconsin’s presidential ballot, political ad spending, controversy over student test score changes and more.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the status of Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race between challenger Eric Hovde and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

A Waukesha County judge has ruled the Wisconsin Elections Commission has improperly delegated its power to agency staff to decide complaints.

Biden announced $7.3 billion for 16 cooperatives in the country that provide electric and clean energy alternatives in rural areas and small towns. The first co-op to be chosen was Dairyland Power Cooperative in La Crosse. The cooperative in Westby is a member coop of Dairyland.

Forward Latino and Voces de la Frontera want a Waukesha County Circuit Court to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to force the Elections Commission to use DOT records to cross-check voter registrations to ensure they’re U.S. citizens.

In the filing, Kennedy’s attorneys argue Wisconsin law inappropriately creates a different standard for third-party candidates because Democrats and Republicans have until 5 p.m. on the first Tuesday in September ahead of an election to certify who their presidential nominee will be.

Speaking to Laborfest, the Minnesota guv noted he was a dues-paying member of his union while a teacher and recounted how GOP opponents once accused him in a campaign of being in the pocket of organized labor. “I said that’s a damned lie. I am the pocket. I am the pocket,” Walz said.

“We talk about a race, this one is literally a race,” Warren said on WISN’s “UpFront,” produced in partnership with WisPolitics. “She has not been a candidate for a year, or even four years, like Donald Trump has. She has been our presidential candidate for something that can be counted in just a handful of weeks. And what she’s doing, everything she can to reach people all across the country.”

On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss presidential campaign visits, November ballot access, absentee ballot drop boxes, a planned legislative audit of the Department of Public Instruction’s monitoring of school district finances, Children and Families Secretary Emilie Amundson announcing plans to leave the Evers administration and more.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, handicap Wisconsin’s 3rd and 8th Congressional District races and whether the GOP can hold those seats. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

The former president answered four questions from voters at the La Crosse Center, where he appeared onstage for about 30 minutes to weigh in on issues including illegal immigration, inflation, crime and national security. Trump also answered questions from the moderator, former Hawaii U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, an ex-Democrat who has endorsed his campaign.

The campaign finance reports — filed more than a month late — also show the two committees raised more than $1.3 million through the end of June with most of that coming from an Arkansas philanthropist.

GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance says it’s “ridiculous” Robbery F. Kennedy Jr. will remain on the Wisconsin ballot in November — even though state law doesn’t provide a way to meet his request to be left off.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission put independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Green Party’s Jill Stein on Wisconsin’s presidential ballot despite partisan disagreements over whether they belong there.