Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement AARP Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — Wisconsin is in the spotlight this week with the Dems kicking off their national convention and President Trump and Vice President Pence coming to the state. While Wisconsin’s Dem delegates aren’t traveling to Milwaukee for the convention, they will

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Kanye West’s nomination papers were filed late, even if the Elections Commission accepts his argument the cut off was 5:01 p.m., not 5 p.m. on the nose, a lawyer for the state Dem Party is arguing. West’s campaign

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement AARP Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — President Trump will be in Wisconsin next week on the same day that Dems roll out their limited Milwaukee convention. Trump yesterday in a tele-rally with Wisconsin supporters said he’s visiting the state on Monday, just as Dems kick

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Green Bay School Board member Kristina Shelton, aided by a six-figure effort from the ADCC, easily knocked off freshman Dem Rep. Staush Gruszynski in a key Dem primary. Gruszynski, the only incumbent to lose yesterday, was booted

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement AARP Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — At least two members of the Election Commission indicated this spring the state’s 5 p.m. cutoff to file nomination papers is a “hard deadline.” How the six-member commission defines that hard deadline could determine whether entertainer Kanye West qualifies

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Two new polls have Joe Biden up 6 points on Donald Trump in Wisconsin. The latest survey from the Elections Research Center at UW-Madison, released today, found 49 percent of registered voters back Biden, while 43 percent supported

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement AARP Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — Anyone looking to challenge entertainer Kanye West’s nomination papers has until 4:30 p.m. today to file one. The Elections Commission yesterday released its initial count of West’s nomination papers, tallying 2,422 signatures, with 2,000 needed to qualify for the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Former U.S. Rep. Steve Gunderson, R-Osseo, tells DC Wrap he expects colleges and universities to use the next wave of coronavirus relief to deal with additional costs and lost revenue from the COVID-19 pandemic. Gunderson now serves as

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement AARP Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — The Elections Commission will take the coming days to determine whether entertainer Kanye West and four others met the qualifications to be on the presidential ballot in Wisconsin. And West may have some Republicans to thank if he

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The ADCC has now put at least $72,357 behind the campaign of Kristina Shelton as she challenges Dem Rep. Staush Gruszynski, according to the challenger’s latest campaign finance report. Shelton, a member of the Green Bay School Board,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement AARP Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly Democratic Campaign Committee gave Kristina Shelton $15,900 in in-kind contributions, rare help from a caucus committee to a candidate challenging an incumbent. The top three Dems in the caucus have all endorsed Shelton in her challenge of

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says he wants the Legislature to overturn Gov. Tony Evers’ statewide mask mandate and is gauging support in the Senate GOP to reconvene for a vote. Fitzgerald’s statement came after several Senate Republicans urged

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement AARP Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett are among the Wisconsin officials who will serve as officers at next month’s virtual national convention. The honorary chairs of the convention will be House

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin today headlines a Milwaukee Press Club-WisPoiltics.com virtual lunch hour discussion. The Madison Dem over the noon event will take questions on current events from a panel of local journalists, with MPC President Gene Mueller

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement AARP Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — Early, in-person voting begins today under a federal appeals court ruling from earlier this summer. Madison announced it will provide 13 drive-up voting locations starting today. Along with offering absentee voting outdoors, the city is taking a series of

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The latest TV ad from Joe Biden’s campaign features a Wisconsin woman who knocks President Trump’s response to COVID-19, saying it felt like her grandmother “didn’t matter” to the administration as she died this spring from the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement AARP Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — Dem leaders in the state slammed the Trump administration’s decision to deploy federal agents to Milwaukee in a move the president says is aimed at fighting violent crime. The state’s largest city is one of five across the country

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Retiring GOP U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner has endorsed state Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald to replace him in the 5th CD. Sensenbrenner, who has held his current Congressional seat since 1979, touted the Juneau Republican as “someone who

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Governor’s Pardon Advisory Board meets today to hear a series of clemency applications. Evers resumed the pardon process in his first year of assuming office. His predecessor, former GOP Gov. Scott Walker, had largely abandoned it. In

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — President Trump told supporters in the state he’s “done more for Wisconsin probably than any other president.” Trump, whose only public rally since the pandemic began was a poorly attended event in Oklahoma, on Friday did what his