A Dane County judge on Tuesday expressed reservations about a lawsuit a conservative group filed over Madison’s use of private funds to purchase absentee ballot drop boxes, saying it amounted to a fishing expedition. Dane County Judge Stephen Ehlke also
Two of Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential electors and a voter Tuesday filed a lawsuit seeking more than $2.4 million from a dozen people involved in an effort to present documents claiming they were casting Wisconsin’s votes for Donald Trump even though
GOP gubernatorial candidates are renewing their calls for more police and bail system changes in response to a weekend of shootings outside the Milwaukee Bucks arena. Kleefisch at a press conference at the Deer District just outside the Bucks’ Fiserv
State party Chair Paul Farrow says the engagement he’s seeing from the grassroots is unlike anything he’s seen before. It’s just some of them have forgotten all the conservative priorities GOP lawmakers delivered on pre-2016. There’s been noticeable grumbling among
Guv candidate Tim Ramthun will have Mike Lindell in his hospitality suite on Friday at the GOP state convention, the Republican lawmaker’s campaign says. Lindell, the MyPillow CEO who has raised conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, has previously endorsed
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the arson attack against Wisconsin Family Action’s headquarters, former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman’s election investigation being put on pause, a judge ruling against a GOP bill providing legislative oversight of state Department of Justice settlements and more.
Turnout in the April election was 976,141, an uptick from the year before even though there was no statewide race on the ballot this spring, according to a preliminary number compiled by the Elections Commission. The agency said the final
GOP guv candidate Rebecca Kleefisch today accused the “Madison snakes and weasels” of trying to stop her and hinted Michels was recruited by the “good ole boys’ club” to run because they could control him. In a column, the former
GOP guv candidate Tim Michels is calling for removing all current members of the Wisconsin Elections Commission and firing senior staff as part of a package to reorganize the agency and overhaul election laws. Michels’ plan released Thursday would call
Political strategists during a WisPolitics.com event argued discussions on overturning Roe v. Wade could drive more voters to the polls from both sides of the aisle. Democratic strategist Tanya Bjork at the Madison Club luncheon Thursday said the expected U.S.
Michael Gableman — who last month offered to reduce his salary to $1 annually to keep his probe of the 2020 election going — will be paid $5,500 a month under an amended contract with Assembly Speaker Robin Vos. The
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the state GOP including a “no-endorsement” option for the party’s endorsement votes at its state convention, the latest developments in the governor’s race, Gov. Tony Evers’ new appointments to the UW System Board of Regents and more.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at Milwaukee as the potential host of the 2024 GOP National Convention. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Statewide candidates who failed to meet viability thresholds the Wisconsin GOP established will have a second option to become eligible for the party’s endorsement at this month’s convention. The party’s Executive Committee previously established fundraising requirements for candidates. That included
A group of plaintiffs that originally wanted a federal court to draw Wisconsin’s political boundaries now agrees the redistricting suit before a three-judge panel should be dismissed. The plaintiffs — which include Black Leaders Organizing for Communities, Voces de la
Dem U.S. Senate candidate Sarah Godlewski is running a new TV ad hitting Republican Ron Johnson on abortion. It’s the first abortion-related TV ad announced in the U.S. Senate race since the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that
GOP guv candidate Tim Michels is out with a new TV ad in which he touts growing the construction business his father started. Michels launched his first ad last week as part of a $980,000 buy. The campaign said the
The Democratic Governors Association announced today the group and its allies have reserved $21 million in TV ads this fall to boost Gov. Tony Evers’ reelection bid. The initial reservation is part of a larger $75 million buy that also
A Dane County judge has ordered Assembly Speaker Robin Vos not to destroy records related to former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman’s 2020 election probe. Wednesday’s order, which Dane County Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn said is “effective immediately,” comes after fellow
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson released a new ad using video from the White House Correspondents Dinner. It says “liberal Democrats and the media elite who falsely attack Sen. Johnson for exposing the truth are laughing it up in Washington while
A Dane County judge on Tuesday expressed reservations about a lawsuit a conservative group filed over Madison’s use of private funds to purchase absentee ballot drop boxes, saying it amounted to a fishing expedition. Dane County Judge Stephen Ehlke also
Two of Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential electors and a voter Tuesday filed a lawsuit seeking more than $2.4 million from a dozen people involved in an effort to present documents claiming they were casting Wisconsin’s votes for Donald Trump even though
GOP gubernatorial candidates are renewing their calls for more police and bail system changes in response to a weekend of shootings outside the Milwaukee Bucks arena. Kleefisch at a press conference at the Deer District just outside the Bucks’ Fiserv
State party Chair Paul Farrow says the engagement he’s seeing from the grassroots is unlike anything he’s seen before. It’s just some of them have forgotten all the conservative priorities GOP lawmakers delivered on pre-2016. There’s been noticeable grumbling among
Guv candidate Tim Ramthun will have Mike Lindell in his hospitality suite on Friday at the GOP state convention, the Republican lawmaker’s campaign says. Lindell, the MyPillow CEO who has raised conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, has previously endorsed
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the arson attack against Wisconsin Family Action’s headquarters, former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman’s election investigation being put on pause, a judge ruling against a GOP bill providing legislative oversight of state Department of Justice settlements and more.
Turnout in the April election was 976,141, an uptick from the year before even though there was no statewide race on the ballot this spring, according to a preliminary number compiled by the Elections Commission. The agency said the final
GOP guv candidate Rebecca Kleefisch today accused the “Madison snakes and weasels” of trying to stop her and hinted Michels was recruited by the “good ole boys’ club” to run because they could control him. In a column, the former
GOP guv candidate Tim Michels is calling for removing all current members of the Wisconsin Elections Commission and firing senior staff as part of a package to reorganize the agency and overhaul election laws. Michels’ plan released Thursday would call
Political strategists during a WisPolitics.com event argued discussions on overturning Roe v. Wade could drive more voters to the polls from both sides of the aisle. Democratic strategist Tanya Bjork at the Madison Club luncheon Thursday said the expected U.S.
Michael Gableman — who last month offered to reduce his salary to $1 annually to keep his probe of the 2020 election going — will be paid $5,500 a month under an amended contract with Assembly Speaker Robin Vos. The
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the state GOP including a “no-endorsement” option for the party’s endorsement votes at its state convention, the latest developments in the governor’s race, Gov. Tony Evers’ new appointments to the UW System Board of Regents and more.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at Milwaukee as the potential host of the 2024 GOP National Convention. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Statewide candidates who failed to meet viability thresholds the Wisconsin GOP established will have a second option to become eligible for the party’s endorsement at this month’s convention. The party’s Executive Committee previously established fundraising requirements for candidates. That included
A group of plaintiffs that originally wanted a federal court to draw Wisconsin’s political boundaries now agrees the redistricting suit before a three-judge panel should be dismissed. The plaintiffs — which include Black Leaders Organizing for Communities, Voces de la
Dem U.S. Senate candidate Sarah Godlewski is running a new TV ad hitting Republican Ron Johnson on abortion. It’s the first abortion-related TV ad announced in the U.S. Senate race since the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that
GOP guv candidate Tim Michels is out with a new TV ad in which he touts growing the construction business his father started. Michels launched his first ad last week as part of a $980,000 buy. The campaign said the
The Democratic Governors Association announced today the group and its allies have reserved $21 million in TV ads this fall to boost Gov. Tony Evers’ reelection bid. The initial reservation is part of a larger $75 million buy that also
A Dane County judge has ordered Assembly Speaker Robin Vos not to destroy records related to former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman’s 2020 election probe. Wednesday’s order, which Dane County Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn said is “effective immediately,” comes after fellow
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson released a new ad using video from the White House Correspondents Dinner. It says “liberal Democrats and the media elite who falsely attack Sen. Johnson for exposing the truth are laughing it up in Washington while