Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Spectrum Reach From WisPolitics.com … — Tom Tiffany this morning is to be sworn as Wisconsin’s 7th CD representative. The Minocqua Republican resigned from the state Senate at midnight, taking the chamber’s partisan balance to an 18-13 GOP majority. The sprawling northern congressional slot has

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers said he doesn’t envision a “grand bargain” with Republican legislative leaders after they won a lawsuit striking down his administration’s extended COVID-19 stay-at-home order. Evers talked with Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Spectrum Reach From WisPolitics.com … — DWD is adding new call centers and expanding staff and hours to answer questions from unemployed Wisconsinites seeking help during the economic fallout from COVID-19. The state also has transferred 243 employees to handle calls from laid off Wisconsin

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, says GOP legislative leaders are waiting to hear what Gov. Tony Evers will propose following the state Supreme Court ruling striking down his administration’s second stay-at-home order. Fitzgerald told WisPolitics.com the Supreme

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Fresh off his victory in the 7th CD, GOP state Sen. Tom Tiffany pledged to work with President Trump in Washington, D.C., to get the country back on the right track. Speaking to supporters via Facebook Live

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The polls are open in northern Wisconsin’s 7th CD in a special election to fill the seat left vacant in September by the resignation of former GOP U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy. State Sen. Tom Tiffany, R-Minocqua, faces

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Republican Tom Tiffany is outraising Dem rival Tricia Zunker in donations of $1,000 or more over the last three weeks, according to a WisPolitics.com check of their latest FEC filings. Tiffany, a GOP state senator from Minocqua, had

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers in this week’s Dem radio address is encouraging people to continue following “Safer at Home” guidelines to lower the spread of coronavirus. Evers thanked Wisconsinites for their efforts in flattening the curve of new infections

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — UW System President Ray Cross is recommending campuses cut programs and consolidate administration to survive the “unprecedented challenges” of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cross also told reporters layoffs were expected. Cross said the system had already been working with

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce is asking Gov. Tony Evers to start a phased reopening of the state economy by Monday, arguing that hospitals and businesses are ready. The group’s board on Friday unanimously passed a resolution

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said a meeting with Gov. Tony Evers was a “good initial discussion” and expressed hope the state could take a regional approach to reopening businesses. But Senate Minority Leader Janet Bewley, D-Mason, told WisPolitics.com

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — A Dane County judge has a status hearing scheduled today in Rep. John Nygren’s open records suit against Gov. Tony Evers with a proposed settlement on the table that would turn over the documents and pay the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Dem Tricia Zunker edged GOP rival Tom Tiffany in fundraising during the final reporting period ahead of their May 12 special election for northern Wisconsin’s 7th CD. Still, Tiffany, a GOP state senator from Minocqua, has outraised

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly State Affairs Committee will take testimony today from invited speakers on a WMC plan to reopen state businesses. The office of Chair Rob Swearingen, R-Rhinelander, said committee members will be given the choice between joining the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Academy of Physician Assistants From WisPolitics.com … — The Evers administration is immediately cutting executive branch agency budgets 5 percent in the current fiscal year to help deal with the looming state revenue loss due to COVID-19, according to an email DOA Secretary Joel

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Democratic Party of Wisconsin is moving its state convention to an all-virtual format. The party had already announced plans to scale back the two-day event to just June 12. Now, it has decided to forgo any in-person

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Academy of Physician Assistants From WisPolitics.com … — Brad Pfaff, rejected by GOP senators as the DATCP secretary last fall, has formally filed to run for the Senate seat being vacated by Dem Jennifer Shilling. WisPolitics.com first reported the expectation that Pfaff would run

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Wisconsin’s House delegation backed a bipartisan package providing a $310 billion boost to the Paycheck Protection Program as it cleared the chamber and headed to President Trump’s desk. U.S. Reps. Bryan Steil, Mark Pocan, Ron Kind, Glenn Grothman

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Wisconsin Academy of Physician Assistants From WisPolitics.com … — While the Ho-Chunk’s Beloit casino plans have garnered bipartisan excitement, the project’s final approval may take a while as COVID-19 dominates the political conversation. The U.S. The Bureau of Indian Affairs last week approved the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The state Supreme Court is giving the Evers administration until Tuesday to respond to a lawsuit GOP legislative leaders filed seeking to prevent enforcement of the latest stay-at-home order. The court set filing deadlines late yesterday after Republicans