WED AM Update: Wolfe says she aims to provide stability after deadlocked vote leaves her as Wisconsin’s top election official

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — Administrator Meagan Wolfe says her No. 1 priority is to provide local clerks stability as they head into 2024 after the Elections Commission deadlocked on whether to renominate her to lead the agency. That move, Dem members argued,

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TUE AM Update: Elections Commission meeting today on administrator position

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Elections Commission meets today to discuss who should serve as the agency administrator for the next four years. The commission plans to go into closed session to discuss litigation before coming back into open session to consider

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MON AM Update: Elections Commission to take up administrator appointment Tuesday; Evers noncommittal on potential budget vetoes on ‘UpFront’

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) From WisPolitics.com … — With the Wisconsin Elections Commission poised to decide whether to reappoint her to the role, agency Administrator Meagan Wolfe sent lawmakers a letter “to set the record straight related to false claims” about her work. The

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TUE AM Update: Evers appoints Colón to 1st District Court of Appeals

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers announced this morning he has tapped former Dem state Rep. Pedro Colón to fill a coming vacancy on the 1st District Court of Appeals. Colón, a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge, will be

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TUE AM Update: JFC to take up DPI, Transportation, UW System budgets today

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee reconvenes today as the panel begins its final push to complete work on the two-year state budget. Today’s agenda includes the departments of Public Instruction and Transportation, as well as the UW

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MON AM Update: Committee work to start today on shared revenue, education funding deal; Lasry elected to DNC at Dem state convention

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Wisconsin Hospital Association From WisPolitics.com … — The deal GOP legislative leaders struck with Dem Gov. Tony Evers on shared revenue and education is set to move quickly through the Legislature. The Senate Education Committee has a public hearing today on the bill that

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FRI AM Update: Kaul knocks JFC not putting additional state dollars into Office of School Safety with federal funding to end this year

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) From WisPolitics.com … — Dem AG Josh Kaul is knocking the GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee for declining to put additional state dollars into the Office of School Safety. During its executive session late yesterday, the committee voted 11-4 to approve

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THU AM Update: LeMahieu threatens to scuttle Milwaukee sales tax proposal unless Evers accepts ‘last, best’ shared revenue offer

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Hospital Association From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu was threatening to walk away from a proposal to allow Milwaukee County and the city to impose new sales taxes unless the guv accepted Republicans’ “last, best offer” on shared revenue. LeMahieu, R-Oostburg,

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