Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, is vowing to fight a congressional subpoena to compel him to testify about a July call in which former President Trump pressured him to take steps to overturn the 2020 election results. Vos, who filed a suit

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Vice President Kamala Harris today knocked “sham audits of elections” while praising Dem AGs for fighting against abortion restrictions and proposals she said make it harder to vote. Harris told members of the Democratic Attorneys General Association meeting in Milwaukee they are

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — GOP legislative leaders today dismissed as a “desperate political stunt” Dem Gov. Tony Evers’ call for a special session that would create a pathway for voters to overturn the state’s 1849 abortion ban after Republicans lawmakers have refused to do so. Evers

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The state Department of Justice investigated GOP state Senate candidate Dave Estenson over misconduct allegations while he was working as a police officer, including that he had sexual relations multiple times with a woman while on duty and in uniform. Estenson denied

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers pledged to county officials today that he will try to boost shared revenue if reelected, while GOP rival Tim Michels told the crowd he believes they’re better at making decisions with public dollars than the state. Evers and Michels

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dem Secretary of State Doug La Follette pulled in $88,540 last month, almost twice what he had raised from other donors over the past 13.5 years combined. The longtime secretary of state — who has held the office for all but four

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dem U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes’ post-primary bounce dissipated in the most recent Marquette University Law School Poll, which showed him neck-and-neck with GOP U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson. Meanwhile, the guv race continued to be tight. The latest poll found 49 percent

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — A Waukesha County judge today rejected a request to stay his ruling that bars election clerks from adding missing witness address information on absentee ballot envelopes. The Waukesha County Dem Party, joined by the state Elections Commission and the League of Women

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers and GOP challenger Tim Michels announced today they will debate Oct. 14 in a televised show organized by the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association – their only head-to-head meeting ahead of the November election. It is the fewest number of general

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — H.O.T. Government President Harry Wait today pleaded not guilty to two felonies and two misdemeanors after he illegally requested absentee ballots for Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Racine Mayor Cory Mason. Ahead of today’s hearing, Wait read a speech outside the courthouse,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — A Waukesha County judge today ordered the Wisconsin Elections Commission to rescind its 2016 guidance directing clerks to fill in missing information on absentee ballot envelopes, ruling state law only allows voters to fix such errors. Judge Michael Aprahamian said Wisconsin law

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers and state Superintendent Jill Underly today called for a nearly $2 billion increase in funding for public schools as they laid down the first big chunk of DPI’s budget plan if the guv is reelected. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … Subscribers: The Friday AM Update and Friday News Summary will be our last products of the week due to the Labor Day holiday. Products will resume Tuesday. — The Wisconsin Realtors Association has decided against endorsing in the guv’s race this year, saying

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Disabled Wisconsin voters are entitled to assistance in returning their absentee ballots despite a state law saying they must return them on their own through the mail or in person, a federal judge ruled today. Judge James Peterson’s ruling provides clarity on

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dem Gov. Tony Evers today portrayed the $90 million in federal COVID-19 money he’s putting into K-12 schools as a bridge until lawmakers next year can consider using some of the expected budget surplus to fund education. The GOP Assembly co-chair of

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers will join Joe Biden for a Labor Day stop in Wisconsin, but Mandela Barnes’ U.S. Senate campaign was noncommittal on whether the lieutenant governor would join them in Milwaukee. The White House announced today Biden will be in Milwaukee

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — While GOP guv candidate Tim Michels won’t take PAC contributions, running mate Roger Roth isn’t placing any similar restrictions on his fundraising. Roth, a state senator from Appleton who is running for lieutenant governor, hosted a fundraiser in Madison yesterday that featured

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — State tax collections for the 2021-22 fiscal year came in $1.6 billion higher than what the Legislative Fiscal Bureau projected just seven months ago, driven by strong growth in income and corporate taxes. The LFB in January had expected the state would

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — GOP legislative leaders today dismissed Dem Gov. Tony Evers’ $600 million tax cut package as an election-year gimmick to distract voters from the two-year anniversary of the violent protests in Kenosha following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Evers, two months out

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The state Department of Justice is arguing there’s no point to continue court proceedings over subpoenas Michael Gableman issued as part of his review of the 2020 election now that the former justice has been fired. A private attorney for the Office