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

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Ethics Commission is scheduled next week to review an agency audit of lobbyists and organizations who failed to comply with Wisconsin’s disclosure laws. That includes those who may have lobbied the Capitol prior to formally receiving authorization

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The liberal One Wisconsin Now says three conservative groups are up on radio and cable backing GOP Rep. Adam Jarchow in the special election for western Wisconsin’s open 10th SD. OWN, which tracks media buys, said Wisconsin Manufacturers

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — State Supreme Court Justice Annette Ziegler emptied out her campaign account before the end of 2017, including more than $23,000 in charitable contributions. Ziegler, who was unopposed for a new 10-year term on the court last year,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Ethics Commission is meeting this morning to discuss a call from top GOP legislative leaders for Administrator Brian Bell to resign. Last week’s letter from Senate Majority Scott Fitzgerald and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos urged both Bell

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Senate Org Committee is voting today by paper ballot on a move to authorize the Department of Justice to investigate matters surrounding the three overlapping John Doe cases. The language for the ballot had not yet been

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Dem Greta Neubauer will be unopposed next month for Racine’s 66th AD, while Republican Rick Gundrum will be heavily favored in the strongly GOP 58th AD after both won primaries. Meanwhile in the 10th SD yesterday, Adam Jarchow

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Polls are open in three special elections for primaries that will determine who’s on the ballot next month to fill open Assembly seats in Racine and Washington County, along with northwestern Wisconsin’s 10th SD. In the 10th, GOP

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker and DOT Secretary Dave Ross will be in in Appleton today to discuss the Wisconsin 441 project with the administration saying it’s freed up more than $100 million for highway work through costs savings and

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald urged two Ethics and Elections commission employees to resign in light of the John Doe report. In near identical letters to Elections Commission Administrator Michael Haas and Ethics

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — A Senate committee is holding a public hearing this morning on a GOP bill that would roll back all DNR air quality regulations. The bill, from Sen. Duey Stroebel, R-Saukville, and Rep. Jesse Kremer, R-Kewaskum, also features a

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling, the top elected female Democrat at the Capitol, is deferring to Milwaukee leaders on whether former Dem Sen. Spencer Coggs should resign as city treasurer despite her call for state Rep. Josh Zepnick

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Shannon Zimmerman has so far largely self-funded his campaign for western Wisconsin’s open 10th SD, helping him top fellow GOP state Rep. Adam Jarchow in the pre-primary period, according to reports filed with the Ethics Commission. Zimmerman, R-River