Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Republican Rebecca Kleefisch today formally launched her campaign for guv with a video that slammed Dem Tony Evers for a term that’s been “marked by failure and weakness.” The former lieutenant governor released a 2 minute, 40-second

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Senate Elections, Election Process Reform and Ethics Committee has an informational hearing today for lawmakers and staff to learn more about the running of elections. According to the hearing notice, it will include bipartisan clerks, Elections Commission

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Elections Commission is urging state justices to send a redistricting lawsuit to the lower courts first, arguing the drawing of new maps is complex and the Supreme Court isn’t meant to be a fact-finding body. The conservative

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association Subscribers: There will be no products Monday in observance of Labor Day. Normal delivery will resume Tuesday. Thanks for subscribing! From WisPolitics.com … — Sen. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, vowed to ask GOP legislative leaders to sue the UW System over its COVID-19

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Frederick Prehn, who’s refusing to vacate his spot on the Natural Resources Board, is asking for a new judge to hear Dem AG Josh Kaul’s lawsuit seeking to force the Wausau dentist from his post. The case has

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Nearly half of the budget for the Assembly’s expanded review of the 2020 election is earmarked for a data analysis contractor, according to a copy of the amended deal obtained this morning by WisPolitics.com. The contractor, who isn’t

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — With Dem AG Josh Kaul seeking to force him off the Natural Resources Board, Wausau dentist Frederick Prehn is asking a Dane County court to declare he can remain until the Senate confirms a successor. Kaul earlier this

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers’ lawyers say recent court rulings in Colorado and Michigan back up their argument that Donald Trump and his attorneys should reimburse Wisconsin taxpayers for legal costs they incurred while the former president sought to overturn

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The same three-judge panel appointed to hear the first federal redistricting lawsuit filed in Wisconsin will also oversee the second one. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Diane Sykes wrote in an order both lawsuits raise similar

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Building Back Together, the group created to push President Biden’s agenda, announced a new $5 million ad campaign that will include Wisconsin. One of the digital ads in the multi-state campaign features former Dem legislative candidate Kriss Marion.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, and GOP state lawmakers will visit Fort McCoy today for a briefing with the 88th Readiness Division, where Afghanistan refugees are being housed. Those who will attend include: state Sens. Howard Marklein, of

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly Judiciary Committee will hear public comment today on legislation that would create new penalties for those who participate in a riot. AB 279 would define what constitutes a riot and create a class A misdemeanor for

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The state GOP Executive Committee unanimously elected Waukesha County Exec Paul Farrow to be the next party chair. Farrow, a former state lawmaker, immediately takes over for Andrew Hitt, who announced last month he was stepping down

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — A spokesman says the Wisconsin National Guard appreciates the feedback it received from the Department of Justice’s “thorough review” of more than 30 sexual assault cases that had previously been investigated by the Guard between 2009-2019. Dem AG

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — AG Josh Kaul says he plans to sign off on a multi-state, $26 billion settlement with three of the nation’s major pharmaceutical distributors and Janssen, which manufactured and marketed opioids. States face a deadline at week’s end to

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Dem AG Josh Kaul has filed a lawsuit seeking to force Frederick Prehn from the Natural Resources Board after the Wausau dentist declined calls to step down more than three months after his six-year appointment ended. Prehn,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The conservative group Empower Wisconsin is launching two TV ads knocking Gov. Tony Evers over the violent protests in Kenosha a year ago. A group spokesman said the ads will run on broadcast TV in Milwaukee starting today,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Almost a year after the shooting of Jacob Blake, the officer who shot Blake is back at work in the Kenosha Police Department, but has not returned to patrol duty. Officer Rusten Sheskey, who is white, was cleared

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he’d consider signing off on a subpoena if former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman decided he needed one for his 2020 election probe. Former President Trump is pressing Vos to support efforts by

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Census Bureau today will release data that states will eventually use to begin drawing new boundaries for legislative and congressional districts. The data to be released today will be the first local level results on population change,