MON AM Update: State Supreme Court fast-tracks key remap issues; Kapenga tells ‘UpFront’ Senate lacks votes to pass redistricting process bill

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Radio Network From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Minority Leader Melissa Agard praised liberal Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz for rebuffing Republican recusal demands shortly before the high court fast-tracked key legislative redistricting issues. “Despite

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TUE AM Update: JFC to take up $2.2B tax cut; Assembly committee to exec 3 constitutional amendments affecting elections

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee will meet today to vote on the Senate’s special session bill that replaced Dem Gov. Tony Evers’ workforce development package with $2.2 billion in tax cuts. Senate Special Session Bill 1, which cleared the

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TUE AM Update: Committee to take testimony on proposed constitutional amendments that would affect elections

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Wisconsin Radio Network From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly and Senate have a joint committee hearing today on proposed constitutional amendments that would impact Wisconsin elections. They include SJR 71/AJR 76, which would ban non-citizens from voting in any national, state or local election

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FRI AM Update: Queensland signed separation agreement after his resignation; Kurtz, Evers deliver parties’ weekly radio addresses

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement A Better Wisconsin Together From WisPolitics.com … — Former Senate Chief Clerk Mike Queensland, found by an investigator to be credibly accused of nonconsensual sexual contact with a woman at a California conference, signed a separation agreement after his resignation, records obtained WisPolitics show. The

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WED AM Update: LeMahieu says acknowledging Wolfe vote was symbolic is best legal strategy as Vos asks to be removed from lawsuit

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Radio Network From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu tells WisPolitics that it is Republicans’ best legal strategy to acknowledge his chamber’s vote last month to oust Meagan Wolfe as the state’s top elections official was “symbolic” GOP leaders made the admission

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TUE AM Update: 8 Evers appointees committees voted against up for Senate votes today; Assembly to vote on Brewers stadium bills

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement A Better Wisconsin Together From WisPolitics.com … — The GOP-controlled state Senate could fire more than half of Gov. Tony Evers’ appointees to the seven-member Natural Resources Board today. Sharon Adams, Dylan Jennings, Sandra Naas and Jim VandenBrook are among the eight Evers nominees

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WED AM Update: Senate committee holding hearing today on Evers’ special session workforce development package

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement A Better Wisconsin Together From WisPolitics.com … — The Senate Economic Development and Technical Colleges Committee today will take testimony on Gov. Tony Evers’ proposed workforce development package. Senate and Assembly leaders took no action on the legislation during the Sept. 20 special session

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TUE AM Update: Assembly committees to exec transgender-related bills today

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Three Assembly committees will exec a trio of transgender-related bills today despite Gov. Tony Evers vowing to “veto every single one of them.” The executive sessions include: *The Education Committee on AB 377, to prohibit K-12 students assigned

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MON AM Update: State Supreme Court fast-tracks key remap issues; Kapenga tells ‘UpFront’ Senate lacks votes to pass redistricting process bill

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Radio Network From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Minority Leader Melissa Agard praised liberal Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz for rebuffing Republican recusal demands shortly before the high court fast-tracked key legislative redistricting issues. “Despite the GOP’s desperate efforts to hold onto their gerrymandered… Please

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