Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — GOP state Rep. Janel Brandtjen, whose time as chair of the Campaigns and Elections Committee may be coming to an end, has called an informational hearing next week on the state’s voter rolls. Brandtjen, R-Menomonee Falls, has been

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Elections Commission staff is proposing the agency seek a more than $1.3 million boost to its base budget in 2023-25 to create a new office that would examine allegations of “unlawful or inefficient operations” in state elections.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — More than 100,000 Medicare Part D enrollees in Wisconsin could benefit from a provision in the Inflation Reduction Act that eliminates cost sharing for adult vaccines. That’s according to a recent analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation, conducted

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — A new poll from The Trafalgar Group found tight races for guv and U.S. Senate in Wisconsin. The survey found 48 percent of likely voters surveyed backed Dem Gov. Tony Evers, while 47.5 percent supported Republican Tim

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Wisconsin could get more than $1 billion in broadband help from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, according to a PSC official. Rory Tikalsky, broadband expansion manager for the Public Service Commission, gave the new estimate during an event

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — State and local employees left their jobs at record highs in 2021, according to a new Wisconsin Policy Forum report. The study of Wisconsin Retirement System data found 17,646 left the pension system in 2021 for reasons other

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Republican Charity Barry has formally conceded the 2nd CD GOP primary to attorney Erik Olsen after a recount upheld his narrow victory. Barry, who comes from a small business background, trailed Olsen, of Madison, by 74 votes

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Elections Commission Chair Don Millis today will certify canvass statements for the results of the Aug. 9 primary. The certification won’t include races that are currently under recount or within the window to petition for one. That includes

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson is distancing himself from former President Donald Trump as the midterms approach. “First of all, my election’s about me running as a U.S. Senator dealing with issues that are impacting Wisconsinites,” Johnson said on

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Adam Steen, who lost the GOP primary in the 63rd AD to Assembly Speaker Robin Vos by 260 votes after he was endorsed by former President Trump, will run as a write-in candidate in November. Steen in an

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The latest Marquette University Law School Poll showed no signs that voters are rallying around former President Trump in the immediate aftermath of the FBI search of his Florida resort home. The poll, which went into the field

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos vowed to fight the thousands of dollars in legal fees awarded to a Washington, D.C.-based group that sought records from Michael Gableman’s review of the 2020 election. But it is likely that Assembly Republicans

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Dem U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes today launched his first ad since winning last week’s primary, saying in the spot it’s time to “change things up.” His campaign said it’s part of a multi-million dollar buy on broadcast,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — It could be at least 2026 before a new juvenile prison in Milwaukee is ready to start housing offenders, more than five years after the troubled Lincoln Hills was originally slated to close. The Evers administration on Friday

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, will be in Middleton today to tour a company that was awarded a $20.2 million contract for the continued development of a rocket engine. Along with that official stop, Baldwin has a campaign

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson announced a new biographical TV ad today narrated by the Oshkosh Republican’s brother. The campaign declined to release details of the buy, other than saying it will run on TV. It’s Johnson’s first since

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers is hitting the road today on a general election campaign swing, starting in Madison this morning with his new running mate, state Rep. Sara Rodriguez. Evers will then hit Stevens Point with AG Josh

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee today launched a new TV ad and two digital spots hitting U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, the first piece of a $3 million campaign targeting the Oshkosh Republican through the November election. Two spots

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman recorded a robocall urging voters to support Adam Steen in tomorrow’s GOP primary, saying Assembly Speaker Robin Vos “never wanted a real investigation into the 2020 election in Wisconsin.” Vos, R-Rochester,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Wisconsin voters have requested 368,335 absentee ballots for Tuesday’s primary, about 40 percent of what they sought ahead of the August 2020 election. The Elections Commission’s update from yesterday shows 363,399 of the requested ballots had been