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The Racine Recall Committee is claiming Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ challenge to its petition should be rejected because the Rochester Republican didn’t follow proper procedure in filing it.
The state Supreme Court has unanimously denied a request seeking to allow Racine to again use a van as a mobile absentee voting site in elections.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has temporarily suspended attorney Jim Troupis from a committee that advises judges on ethics after he was charged with a felony for participating in the false electors scheme. Today’s order didn’t cite a reason for Troupis’
Dem Gov. Tony Evers announced he’s moving forward with plans to fund an audit of Milwaukee Public Schools looking at the district’s operations and how it’s educating students after getting support from local leaders.
Dane County Judge Susan Crawford has formally launched her campaign for the state Supreme Court next year, looking to protect liberals’ 4-3 majority.
“It is really important to get people riled up, energized, excited,” Harrison said on WISN’s “UpFront,” which is produced in partnership with WisPolitics.com. “I need Democrats to understand they cannot be silent. They can’t sit on their hands. They can’t say woe is me. It’s time to roll up your sleeves, get your vitamins from Costco, get ready to start knocking on doors, making phone calls and getting out the vote.”
Delegates at the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s state convention backed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Palestine conflict despite opposition from leadership that it failed to mention the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.
Dem party activists elected Tomika Vukovic, a member of the Glendale Common Council, and Arvina Martin, the executive director of Emerge Wisconsin, to the DNC. The delegates also reelected by acclimation Alex Lasry, a former Milwaukee Bucks exec who serves in the Biden administration, and Eau Claire Ald. Andrew Werthmann. They were the only two candidates who qualified for the race.
Five months out from the November election, there’s been a steady stream of polls showing minority voters are less enthusiastic about Biden than they were in 2020. And there has been particular attention paid to Black men. Some of those surveys have shown an openness about voting for Trump this fall.
Need an easy laugh at the Dem state convention while addressing party activists? Take a shot at Donald Trump’s legal troubles.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, delivering the keynote address to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s state convention, gave activists one charge for this fall: win.
DNC Chair Jaime Harrison today urged Democrats to vote in the 2024 election, describing the election as a struggle of hope against fear.
A half dozen pro-Palestinian protests were escorted out of the Dem state convention after they interrupted U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s speech.
Gov. Tony Evers ticked off accomplishments he attributed to Democrats, including increases in shared revenue funding for municipalities, affordable housing investments, repairing roads and keeping the Brewers in Milwaukee. Evers said Dems have faced “near-constant Republican obstruction.”
Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez says when Donald Trump says immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” he’s talking about her family.
Attorney General Josh Kaul in a speech to Dem Party activists today knocked Republicans for “attacking our voting rights and our freedom to vote.”
Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski urged Dem activists to send a message this fall: “don’t mess with our reproductive rights.”
U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, of Milwaukee, said Democrats shouldn’t criticize the younger generation for speaking out against the war in Gaza. Still, Moore said, “any vote that our coalition members casts for somebody other than Joe Biden is a vote for Donald Trump.”
U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Town of Vermont, says this fall is about the “three Bs”: Biden, Baldwin and blue majorities.
Senate Minority Leader Dianne Hesselbein, of Middleton, at the state Dem Party convention today said after years of Republican control in the Legislature, “their time for accountability is now.”
The Racine Recall Committee is claiming Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ challenge to its petition should be rejected because the Rochester Republican didn’t follow proper procedure in filing it.
The state Supreme Court has unanimously denied a request seeking to allow Racine to again use a van as a mobile absentee voting site in elections.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has temporarily suspended attorney Jim Troupis from a committee that advises judges on ethics after he was charged with a felony for participating in the false electors scheme. Today’s order didn’t cite a reason for Troupis’ suspension from the Judicial Conduct Advisory Committee. It only noted
Dem Gov. Tony Evers announced he’s moving forward with plans to fund an audit of Milwaukee Public Schools looking at the district’s operations and how it’s educating students after getting support from local leaders.
Dane County Judge Susan Crawford has formally launched her campaign for the state Supreme Court next year, looking to protect liberals’ 4-3 majority.
“It is really important to get people riled up, energized, excited,” Harrison said on WISN’s “UpFront,” which is produced in partnership with WisPolitics.com. “I need Democrats to understand they cannot be silent. They can’t sit on their hands. They can’t say woe is me. It’s time to roll up your sleeves, get your vitamins from Costco, get ready to start knocking on doors, making phone calls and getting out the vote.”
Delegates at the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s state convention backed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Palestine conflict despite opposition from leadership that it failed to mention the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.
Dem party activists elected Tomika Vukovic, a member of the Glendale Common Council, and Arvina Martin, the executive director of Emerge Wisconsin, to the DNC. The delegates also reelected by acclimation Alex Lasry, a former Milwaukee Bucks exec who serves in the Biden administration, and Eau Claire Ald. Andrew Werthmann. They were the only two candidates who qualified for the race.
Five months out from the November election, there’s been a steady stream of polls showing minority voters are less enthusiastic about Biden than they were in 2020. And there has been particular attention paid to Black men. Some of those surveys have shown an openness about voting for Trump this fall.
Need an easy laugh at the Dem state convention while addressing party activists? Take a shot at Donald Trump’s legal troubles.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, delivering the keynote address to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s state convention, gave activists one charge for this fall: win.
DNC Chair Jaime Harrison today urged Democrats to vote in the 2024 election, describing the election as a struggle of hope against fear.
A half dozen pro-Palestinian protests were escorted out of the Dem state convention after they interrupted U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s speech.
Gov. Tony Evers ticked off accomplishments he attributed to Democrats, including increases in shared revenue funding for municipalities, affordable housing investments, repairing roads and keeping the Brewers in Milwaukee. Evers said Dems have faced “near-constant Republican obstruction.”
Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez says when Donald Trump says immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” he’s talking about her family.
Attorney General Josh Kaul in a speech to Dem Party activists today knocked Republicans for “attacking our voting rights and our freedom to vote.”
Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski urged Dem activists to send a message this fall: “don’t mess with our reproductive rights.”
U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, of Milwaukee, said Democrats shouldn’t criticize the younger generation for speaking out against the war in Gaza. Still, Moore said, “any vote that our coalition members casts for somebody other than Joe Biden is a vote for Donald Trump.”
U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Town of Vermont, says this fall is about the “three Bs”: Biden, Baldwin and blue majorities.
Senate Minority Leader Dianne Hesselbein, of Middleton, at the state Dem Party convention today said after years of Republican control in the Legislature, “their time for accountability is now.”