From WisPolitics … — State Rep. Katrina Shankland knocked fellow Dem 3rd CD Dem candidate Rebecca Cooke for her past as a political consultant while calling for her competitors to reject corporate PAC donations. Shankland, of Stevens Point, Eau Claire nonprofit owner Cooke and Eau Claire mortgage loan officer Eric

From WisPolitics … — 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. But the court split on a second piece of yesterday’s decision as the liberal majority granted a stay of a

From WisPolitics … — Andrew Cegielski, the lone Republican to file to run against Assembly Speaker Robin Vos in the August primary, is ending his campaign. Cegielski, who works for an industrial oven company in East Troy and has worked as a conservative writer, didn’t offer any specifics in his

From WisPolitics … — Dane County Judge Susan Crawford today formally launched her campaign for the state Supreme Court next year, looking to protect liberals’ 4-3 majority. Crawford is seeking to succeed fellow progressive Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, who announced earlier this year she had decided against seeking a fourth

From WisPolitics … — Challenges have been filed to the nomination papers of 11 candidates seeking to get on this fall’s ballot, including one that claims 8th CD GOP candidate Tony Wied’s circulators misled some signers. The challenges to Wied’s nomination papers for the regular election and the special election

From WisPolitics … — Dem Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski has dropped her request for the GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee to approve additional funding and staff for her office. The committee had planned to take up the request during today’s 13.10 hearing. Instead, Godlewski wrote in a letter yesterday she

From WisPolitics … — Americans for Prosperity Action has launched a new $1 million ad campaign praising GOP businessman Eric Hovde as someone who will bring people together and knocking U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin as a career politician.   The campaign, which follows a six-figure effort earlier this spring, will run

From WisPolitics … — GOP appointee Bob Atwell says he “left room for people to assume” he was going to stay on the UW Board of Regents much longer than he intended, according to an email he shared with WisPolitics. Atwell notified UW officials last month he planned to remain

From WisPolitics … — Candidates seeking to get on the fall ballot have a deadline today to turn in their nomination papers. The Elections Commission’s latest update, posted late Friday, shows: *All four announced candidates for the 8th CD have turned in their signatures to run in both the special

From WisPolitics … — State GOP Chairman Brian Schimming is accusing Dems and President Joe Biden’s campaign of weaponizing the legal system after Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of a felony, calling the verdict “a national embarrassment.”  A New York jury yesterday found Trump was

From WisPolitics …  — DPI is threatening to withhold state aid payments from Milwaukee Public Schools because the district has failed to file statutorily required fiscal reports. Two of the reports were due eight months ago, and the district is in danger of missing out on a $15.7 million special

From WisPolitics … — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced today it has added former Revenue Secretary Peter Barca to its “Red to Blue” program, a sign it intends to invest in his campaign against U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Janesville. The DCCC provides candidates in the program with organizational and

From WisPolitics … — The group seeking to oust Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says it will turn in more than 8,000 signatures from the 63rd AD this afternoon with 6,850 valid ones needed to trigger a recall. Recall organizers face a deadline today to turn in signatures in their second

From WisPolitics … — The Fix Washington PAC, a group largely funded by GOP U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde’s brother, has dropped another $1.5 million on ads targeting U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. The group’s latest filing with the FEC shows it spent $957,469 on media placement, $502,512 on digital ads

From WisPolitics … — The list of delegates and alternates Wisconsin Republicans will send to the national convention includes two former governors, several elected officials and two people who served as false electors in 2020. The party announced the list of 41 delegates and 38 alternates late yesterday. Those serving

From WisPolitics … — U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin today released the fifth TV ad of her campaign, a spot shot selfie-style in which people praise her for a cap on insulin costs. Baldwin’s campaign said the ad will run statewide on broadcast and cable TV, as well as digital platforms.

From WisPolitics … — The state Dem Party had nearly $2.3 million in its federal account at the end of April, a 3.5-to-1 advantage over the Republican Party of Wisconsin. Both parties filed their latest federal campaign finance reports yesterday covering activity in April. The state Dem Party reported more

From WisPolitics … — Speakers at this weekend’s GOP state convention urged party activists to put aside their differences and come together to defeat President Joe Biden and “radical” Dems this fall. U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, made his pitch for unity Saturday while talking about abortion, saying that regardless

From WisPolitics … — The Republican state convention in Appleton kicks off today, though the meat of the convention will be tomorrow. U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., will be the keynote speaker tomorrow with an agenda that also includes an address from U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, and panels featuring

From WisPolitics … — Vice President Kamala Harris will be joined by comedian and radio show host D.L Hughley during her stop in Milwaukee today for a moderated conversation about how the Biden administration is working to increase economic opportunity, the White House said. Today’s visit is part of what