FRI PM Update: New JFC powers to cut spending out of GOP COVID-19 package; Elections Commission meets on ballot issues

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Legislature’s top Republicans today announced plans to meet in extraordinary session next week to take up legislation responding to COVID-19 and helping Wisconsin get more federal money to deal with the fallout from the pandemic. Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke, R-Kaukauna,

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FRI News Summary: Baldwin, Johnson seek investigation into undelivered ballots; 27% unemployment projected for Wisconsin

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** April 16: WisPolitics.com/Milwaukee Press Club Newsmaker Luncheon with State Party Chairs WisPolitics.com and the Milwaukee Press Club are holding a virtual event on the spring election during the lunch hour on Thursday with state GOP Chair Andrew Hitt and state Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler.

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Evers, GOP leaders grapple over response to COVID-19 pandemic

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican legislative leaders have been trading ideas — and barbs — about the appropriate state response to the coronavirus pandemic. The Senate and Assembly promise floor sessions soon, but no specific dates have been set. The first proposal came March 28 from Evers. He followed

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THU AM Update: More than 80 percent of absentee ballots returned so far

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Academy of Physician Assistants From WisPolitics.com … — More than 80 percent of the absentee ballots local clerks mailed to vote have now been returned, according to the latest update from the Elections Commission. That’s an additional 39,268 ballots logged by local clerks compared

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WED AM Update: Madison sees higher in-person turnout than Milwaukee

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Roughly 2,700 more voters in Madison turned out to cast ballots in person than in the city of Milwaukee, with current totals from both cities eclipsing turnout figures from the April 2019 election. The Madison municipal clerk’s

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MON PM Update: Fate of spring election in Supreme Court’s hands

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The fate of Wisconsin’s spring election hung in the balance late today as GOP lawmakers asked the conservative-dominated state Supreme Court to overturn Dem Gov. Tony Evers’ order to push back in-person voting until June amid a national COVID-19 pandemic. Republicans filed

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MON News Summary: GOP leaders rebuff Evers’ call to delay spring election

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MON AM Update: 11 mayors ask Evers administration to stop in-person voting; Republicans appeal absentee ballot case to U.S. Supreme Court

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — With the spring election now before the U.S. Supreme Court, 11 Wisconsin mayors are pressing Gov. Tony Evers’ administration to stop in-person voting after Republican lawmakers declined to take up his last-minute request for a mail-in election with

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FRI News Summary: Democratic National Convention postponed; federal judge extends absentee ballot deadlines

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