Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Lawmakers collected more than $1.3 million in per diem last year as the budget stretched into September, about $139,000 more than 2015, when they finished the spending plan in July. Members of the Assembly topped $1 million as

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker and former Gov. Tommy Thompson are traveling the state today to tout a package of 10 welfare overhaul bills and the state’s unemployment numbers. The two will be stopping in Milwaukee, Green Bay and La

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — An Assembly panel this morning is slated to vote on a substitute amendment that would significantly pare back a GOP wetlands bill. While the original bill would exempt all state wetlands from permitting requirements, the sub from

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Speaker Robin Vos will testify at a joint hearing this morning on a set of bills he authored with Sen. Chris Kapenga that would overhaul the state’s welfare system. The hearing is part of a special session called

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Several members of Wisconsin’s congressional delegation have announced guests they’ll bring to President Trump’s first State of the Union Speech tonight. And one guest is causing a spat between two congressmen. Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Dem guv candidate Kelda Roys has hired Sonja Chojnacki as her new campaign manager. Chojnacki, 34, is a Wisconsin native who returns to the state after working in political consulting and on several campaigns across the nation. Some

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, is now calling for the Legislature to appoint an Elections Commission administrator if commissioners don’t. His announcement came just a day after the Elections Commission voted 4-2 to re-appoint Michael Haas as

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says the Elections Commission’s vote to re-appoint its administrator one day after the Senate moved to oust him “doesn’t make any sense.” Commissioners yesterday voted 4-2 to keep Michael Haas on through April

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald charged the old GAB was engaged in an active conspiracy to tilt the recall elections of 2011 and 2012 against Republicans and push them out of power as retribution for Act 10.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The three candidates for state Supreme Court traded barbs Monday about their judicial philosophies and records during their first debate ahead of next month’s primary. Sauk County Circuit Court Judge Michael Screnock took the first shot during

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Ethics Commission Administrator Brian Bell continued to criticize staff of the old GAB and the current Elections Commission over the handling of records from a John Doe probe as he answered questions from a GOP senator ahead of

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The state’s House delegation split along party lines on a short term spending bill that passed the House 230-197 late yesterday. But the bill’s future in the Senate remains unclear, where national media reports indicate Dems intend to

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Ethics Commission Administrator Brian Bell says he left the now-defunct Government Accountability Board because of the “transparently partisan” nature of the agency’s former counsel Shane Falk — and GAB’s inconsistent enforcement of the law. The comments were made

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Dem Patty Schachtner scored an upset special election win in the Republican-leaning 10th SD Tuesday as Dems immediately portrayed the victory over GOP Rep. Adam Jarchow as a sign a wave is headed toward Wisconsin this fall. But

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker today called on lawmakers to quickly OK a plan to close the state’s youth prisons and open five new regional facilities. That call comes after Walker first planned to include the plan in the 2019-21

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, raised $2.8 million over the final three months of 2017, padding a significant financial edge over her GOP rivals. Baldwin’s campaign said she finished 2017 with $7 million in the bank. Republican Kevin

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — An Ethics Commission audit found about 10 percent of licensed lobbyists and principals failed to comply with state law on properly reporting their activities. That information will be presented to the commission today as part of the agency’s

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Madison Mayor Paul Soglin formally kicked off his campaign for guv today, charging President Trump and Gov. Scott Walker do not believe in the principles of government providing citizen health and safety “through a fair system of taxation”

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The state Senate plans no public hearings on the nominations of the administrators for the Elections and Ethics commissions, according to the office of Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald. Instead, the Juneau Republican’s office told WisPolitics.com the nominations of

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Greater Wisconsin Political Independent Expenditure Fund is doing a digital ad in the 10th SD, the first sign of outside Dem help for Patty Schachtner’s run against GOP Rep. Adam Jarchow for the open seat in western