Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The five positions Gov. Scott Walker vetoed from the Elections Commission has left it with a staffing level that “poses a significant obstacle to successfully administering” Wisconsin’s elections, the agency’s administrator wrote the board ahead of today’s meeting.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Dem guv candidate Dana Wachs says the state’s youth prisons should be closed. Wachs, a Dem state rep from Eau Claire, said in a statement last night those incarcerated at the Lincoln Hills School for Boys and the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The state Dem Party is filling its new executive director positions with internal candidates. George Gillis, who had been the political director, now becomes the executive director for political affairs. Meanwhile, Breianna Hasenzahl-Reeder, who had been working as

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — A Dem bill that would require state and local government contracts to be executed with a preference for American-made materials is getting a public hearing today in an Assembly committee. The so-called “Made in America Act” is from

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker is now calling on Roy Moore to drop out of the U.S. Senate race after originally only saying the Alabama Republican should withdraw if the allegations against him are true. Since Walker’s original comments, another

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Mahlon Mitchell, president of the Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin, has three stops planned in the state today for a “major political announcement” with all signs pointing toward him getting into the race for guv. Mitchell’s campaign

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker today appointed GOP state Sen. Sheila Harsdorf the first female DATCP secretary, calling the longtime lawmaker “an excellent fit to lead the agency.” Harsdorf, who won her Senate seat in 2000 and served in the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — GOP Reps. Adam Jarchow, of Balsam Lake, and Shannon Zimmerman, of River Falls, are expected to look at running for Sheila Harsdorf’s northwestern Wisconsin seat if Gov. Scott Walker names the Republican senator his new DATCP secretary. Harsdorf,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The mining bill is headed to Gov. Scott Walker after the Senate approved the legislation to lift a nearly two-decade old moratorium. The bill cleared the Senate 19-14, helped by a key amendment the Assembly OK’d last week

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — As he continued his statewide tour to promote his re-election bid, Gov. Scott Walker repeated his “Moving Wisconsin Forward” pitch. “Rebecca Kleefisch and I are asking for your help to have four more years as your governor

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker is hitting La Crosse, Eau Claire, Wausau, Rhinelander and Green Bay today as he kicks off a three-day tour of the state following his formal announcement of his bid for a third term. Yesterday in

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly passed the GOP sulfide mining bill last night on a 53-38 vote with a key amendment to win over some holdout Senate Republicans. Bill co-author Sen. Tom Tiffany, R-Hazelhurst, told WisPolitics.com earlier this week he was

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Platform Communications From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly’s set to take up two major bills this afternoon: one on abortion coverage and another on sulfide mining. The first bill would prohibit the Group Insurance Board from providing abortions for public employees or contracting to do

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Hospital Association From WisPolitics.com … — Chair John Macco plans to announce a restructuring of the Assembly Ways and Means Committee today. That includes adding four lawmakers — three Republicans and one Dem — to the 12-member committee. Macco also plans to create four

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Several top aides to Gov. Scott Walker’s previous runs are returning for his 2018 re-election bid, and Mike Grebe, former head of the conservative Bradley Foundation, will again once again chair the effort. The guv’s campaign today announced

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty From WisPolitics.com … — The Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce today launched a $1.6 million TV and digital ad campaign hitting Dem U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin for supporting tax hikes “rigging the system against us.” The group said campaign

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Hospital Association From WisPolitics.com … — Dem state Sen. Lena Taylor is knocking Gov. Scott Walker’s call to appoint an interim superintendent of the state’s juvenile prisons following attacks on staff. Walker sent a letter to Corrections Secretary Jon Litscher suggesting “violent individuals in

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — A GOP bill that would nix a requirement for certain state agencies to adhere to renewable energy goals is up for a hearing today. The legislation, from Sen. Chris Kapenga and Rep. Mike Kuglitsch, would roll back a