Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Edge Messaging From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, formally launched his bid for the 5th CD today, touting his work on conservative priorities such as 2011’s Act 10, right-to-work and anti-abortion legislation. “I haven’t just talked about conservative principles. I’ve lived

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is in Milwaukee today visiting a voucher school. The stop is part of her Back-to-School Tour and includes a roundtable as well as planned remarks to tout choice programs. Milwaukee is home to

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Edge Messaging From WisPolitics.com … — Trump campaign Senior Adviser Kimberly Guilfoyle called on UW-Madison students to speak out about conservative values and mobilize themselves and their peers on Election Day 2020. Speaking to a lecture hall packed by UW-Madison College Republicans last night, Guilfoyle

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Former GOP state Sen. Leah Vukmir announced this morning she won’t run for the 5th CD. After her loss in last year’s U.S. Senate race, Vukmir took a job with the National Taxpayers Union as vice president

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Edge Messaging From WisPolitics.com … — The Wisconsin and U.S. flags will fly at half-staff today at state buildings, grounds and military installations to commemorate the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, under an executive order Gov. Tony Evers signed. The order also declares

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — State Sen. Tom Tiffany, R-Minocqua, formally launched his campaign for the 7th CD today, vowing to be “the ally President Trump needs to keep moving our country forward.” Meanwhile, a Wausau thoracic surgeon is now looking at a

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Edge Messaging From WisPolitics.com … — Jerry Petrowski has decided against a bid for the 7th CD in an upcoming special election, while fellow GOP state Sen. Dale Kooyenga is passing on a run for the 5th CD next fall. Meanwhile, state Sen. Tom

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Former Gov. Scott Walker’s son, Matt, is strongly considering a run for the 5th CD, according to a GOP source. He’s the latest possible Republican candidate to step forward following U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner’s announcement he won’t

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Edge Messaging From WisPolitics.com … — Foxconn executive Louis Woo is stepping down from his project responsibilities to address “some personal matters,” according to a statement from the company. “We can confirm that Dr. Louis Woo, whose invaluable contributions have established a strong foundation

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee will meet this morning on DATCP’s request to transfer $100,000 in each year of the 2019-21 biennium from the committee’s supplemental appropriation to the agency’s account for farmer mental health assistance. The committee didn’t

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Edge Messaging From WisPolitics.com … — Committees in the Assembly and Senate have separate public hearings planned today on legislation that would ban firefighting foams that contain PFAS, except in certain circumstances. The bill would still allow the use of firefighting foam that includes perfluoroalkyl

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Edge Messaging From WisPolitics.com … — DOJ now says a decision is no longer needed by today on a proposed multi-state settlement AG Josh Kaul tried to take before the Joint Finance Committee earlier this week. DOJ’s Charlotte Gibson, head of the Legal Services Division,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers will be in Beaver Dam to make an economic development announcement. — The conservative Americans for Prosperity-Wisconsin is praising U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, and U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, D-La Crosse, for voting against the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Edge Messaging From WisPolitics.com … — While the GOP JFC co-chairs called Dem AG Josh Kaul’s request to sign a confidentiality agreement a “nonstarter” after yesterday’s hearing, they wrote in a July letter they were open to one to ensure details of proposed settlements submitted

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — WEDC Secretary and CEO Mark Hogan will formally step down from the job Sept. 3, telling Gov. Tony Evers in a letter serving in the role has been “one of the great privileges of my life.” Hogan’s departure

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Edge Messaging From WisPolitics.com … — There is a new web app for the Marquette University Law School Poll that allows users to peruse every question the survey has asked. That totals 960 questions so far, and poll Director Charles Franklin says it will be

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, will be in Minneapolis this morning for a health care roundtable with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Baldwin’s office said the focus will be on the cost of prescription drugs.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Edge Messaging From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee will today hear testimony on four bills, ranging from an effort to widen the scope of stalking to include digital communication to a proposal that would allow expungement of first-offense OWI

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Wisconsin Right to Life is urging members of a Senate committee to reject Andrea Palm’s nomination as DHS secretary, citing her decision to hire a former Planned Parenthood vice president to fill the agency’s No. 3 slot. In

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — The state Dem Party this spring paid $751 as part of a settlement for providing in-kind donations to Rebecca Dallet’s 2018 Supreme Court campaign without reporting them. A spokeswoman last spring told WisPolitics.com while the state party was