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After nearly four decades around Wisconsin campaigns, I can say this with confidence: Francesca Hong isn’t running a conventional statewide campaign. She’s building an organization first and using it to power the campaign, not the other way around.
It looks like democratic socialist Francesca Hong has the race in the bag. She certainly thinks so, and polling backs her up, so Hong dropped an ad targeting Tom Tiffany.
James Causey on leadership, experience and why voters should take time to make an informed decision for governor. David Crowley earned his vote.
Democracy in Wisconsin
If they’re really serious about fraud, Vance and Tiffany — who currently represents Wisconsin’s 7th District in Congress, where he’s Donald Trump’s No. 1 lackey — would have much better luck ferreting out the rampant fraud and abuse in Trump’s Washington.
Without comprehensive resource planning, regulators have little opportunity to compare alternatives before committing customers to decades of infrastructure costs. … Instead of approving Wisconsin’s energy future one docket at a time, let’s build it through one comprehensive plan.
A financial safety net changes everything and opens the door for better mental health, better education, a stronger community and a stronger economy.
As progressive Americans confront escalating battles over transgender rights, reproductive autonomy, classroom censorship, voting access, and a shifting landscape of civil liberties, many describe a widening gap between public support and policy outcomes.
He has become incapable of logical thought and rational solutions. It’s time for Republicans to invoke Article 25 and put him out to pasture.
No matter who Democrats wind up nominating for governor, they’re already backed up against their own goal line against Republican Tom Tiffany.
Experts from both parties weigh in. And where does this leave Democrats?
The ‘blob’ of the Democratic Party organization is the problem, and solution, he says.
Wikler probably knows more than anyone about what it takes for Democrats to win elections in Wisconsin, and he seemed to betray a real worry.
A conversation with Ben Wikler.
If you buy property and hold legal title to it but cannot exercise practical authority or control over that property, do you really own it?
Every year thousands of people fall prey to the whims of their local assessor. Even if you’ve made no improvements to your home, and even if local levy limits stay the same, your property tax bill can still go up.
But only a minority of counties use existing capabilities to send messages automatically
A rescission from the Trump administration that would strip Biden-era protections from LGBTQ+ children in the foster care system.
City Attorney Evan Goyke can help.
My party is being very much my party. Just as its crowded gubernatorial primary was coalescing around the candidate most likely to win in November, that candidate’s campaign stumbled hard, her less electable opponents pounced and, just like that, somebody else will get the nomination.
After nearly four decades around Wisconsin campaigns, I can say this with confidence: Francesca Hong isn’t running a conventional statewide campaign. She’s building an organization first and using it to power the campaign, not the other way around.
It looks like democratic socialist Francesca Hong has the race in the bag. She certainly thinks so, and polling backs her up, so Hong dropped an ad targeting Tom Tiffany.
James Causey on leadership, experience and why voters should take time to make an informed decision for governor. David Crowley earned his vote.
Democracy in Wisconsin
If they’re really serious about fraud, Vance and Tiffany — who currently represents Wisconsin’s 7th District in Congress, where he’s Donald Trump’s No. 1 lackey — would have much better luck ferreting out the rampant fraud and abuse in Trump’s Washington.
Without comprehensive resource planning, regulators have little opportunity to compare alternatives before committing customers to decades of infrastructure costs. … Instead of approving Wisconsin’s energy future one docket at a time, let’s build it through one comprehensive plan.
A financial safety net changes everything and opens the door for better mental health, better education, a stronger community and a stronger economy.
As progressive Americans confront escalating battles over transgender rights, reproductive autonomy, classroom censorship, voting access, and a shifting landscape of civil liberties, many describe a widening gap between public support and policy outcomes.
He has become incapable of logical thought and rational solutions. It’s time for Republicans to invoke Article 25 and put him out to pasture.
No matter who Democrats wind up nominating for governor, they’re already backed up against their own goal line against Republican Tom Tiffany.
Experts from both parties weigh in. And where does this leave Democrats?
The ‘blob’ of the Democratic Party organization is the problem, and solution, he says.
Wikler probably knows more than anyone about what it takes for Democrats to win elections in Wisconsin, and he seemed to betray a real worry.
A conversation with Ben Wikler.
If you buy property and hold legal title to it but cannot exercise practical authority or control over that property, do you really own it?
Every year thousands of people fall prey to the whims of their local assessor. Even if you’ve made no improvements to your home, and even if local levy limits stay the same, your property tax bill can still go up.
But only a minority of counties use existing capabilities to send messages automatically
A rescission from the Trump administration that would strip Biden-era protections from LGBTQ+ children in the foster care system.
City Attorney Evan Goyke can help.
My party is being very much my party. Just as its crowded gubernatorial primary was coalescing around the candidate most likely to win in November, that candidate’s campaign stumbled hard, her less electable opponents pounced and, just like that, somebody else will get the nomination.
