From WisPolitics …  — New Senate Minority Leader Dianne Hesselbein, D-Middleton, is vowing to make sure everyone in her caucus “has a voice.” Hesselbein replaces Melissa Agard, of Madison, who stepped down to focus on a run for Dane County executive next year. Hesselbein said after Friday’s vote she was

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Former GOP AG Brad Schimel, now a Waukesha County judge, launched his bid for the state Supreme Court in 2025, pitching it as an opportunity for conservatives to take back the majority. In his announcement late yesterday, Schimel

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Radio Network From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Minority Leader Melissa Agard, D-Madison, announced this morning she will run for Dane County exec next year, giving up her legislative seat in the process. The move opens up her heavily Dem Senate seat, which will be

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — A Dane County judge has dismissed claims that former justices advising Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on the possibility of impeaching liberal Janet Protasiewicz violated the open meetings law. Judge Frank Remington wrote in his ruling yesterday that when

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Radio Network From WisPolitics.com … — A Senate committee will hear testimony today on legislation that would require public and school libraries to notify parents within 24 hours anytime their children under the age of 16 check out materials. Under current law, custodial parents

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The group that targeted Assembly Speaker Robin Vos earlier this fall with a $100,000 ad campaign pressuring him to impeach Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe says it’s launching a new $250,000 buy. A group spokesperson told WisPolitics the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Radio Network From WisPolitics.com … — President Biden’s campaign is running a pair of ads in the Milwaukee and Detroit markets around the Packers-Lions football game on Thanksgiving tomorrow. One ad, “Never Left,” focuses on Biden’s middle-class roots, while a second, “Finally,” focuses on

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Wisconsin justices today will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit that could overturn the legislative maps drawn by GOP lawmakers and blessed by the state Supreme Court’s former conservative majority. With Justice Janet Protasiewicz now on the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — Matt Neumann, one of the hosts of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ private fundraiser in Milwaukee last week, says the event had “good turnout” that included some prominent Wisconsin Republicans. “I’m not here to drop names, but yes, there

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — The MKE 2024 Host Committee has launched a directory of businesses available for contracts related to next year’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. The group yesterday rolled out its vendor directory site, which aims to help delegates

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Radio Network From WisPolitics.com … — State Rep. Barb Dittrich slammed state Sen. Rachael Cabral-Guevara’s testimony as a “disgrace” after the Appleton Republican joked during a hearing on a nurse practitioner bill about using an IV needle to hurt a lobbyist for a group

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Evers administration wants to move nearly a quarter of those held at Waupun to other correctional facilities in the state to relieve staffing issues at the 19th-century prison and allow prisoners to again move more freely.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — Backers of legislation to overhaul the state’s alcohol policies are considering getting the proposal to the Senate floor today by offering it as an amendment to another bill already on the calendar, according to multiple sources. The

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Radio Network From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Minority Leader Melissa Agard, D-Madison, said there weren’t enough votes yet to pass the Brewers funding bill as negotiations intensified this weekend ahead of a vote Tuesday in the state Senate. “There are not the votes right

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Radio Network From WisPolitics.com … — A Senate panel today is set to exec legislation that would give utilities already doing business in Wisconsin the right of first refusal to build, own and maintain a new transmission line that connects to one of their

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — GOP legislative leaders are demanding the Wisconsin Elections Commission appoint a new administrator after a filing from the agency’s DOJ attorneys contradicted statements from Dem commissioners that they had no power to do so. Republicans have asked a

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Radio Network From WisPolitics.com … — Both houses of the Legislature will be on the floor today. The Assembly calendar includes several bills related to higher education, including one that would require existing higher education grant programs to provide financial support to disadvantaged students

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — State GOP Chair Brian Schimming says a top-tier U.S. Senate candidate will enter the race before the end of the year to take on Dem U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. “I think you’ll see things happen in the next

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Wisconsin’s House delegation split along party lines on a GOP military aid package for Israel that would offset the $14.3 billion cost with a cut in funding for the IRS. All six Wisconsin Republicans supported the measure, which

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — A group billing itself as the Wisconsin Elections Committee is up with a new TV ad that threatens to oust Assembly Speaker Robin Vos unless he allows the impeachment process against the state’s top elections official to proceed.