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

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — When the latest Marquette University Law School Poll found Ron Johnson trailing Dem rival Mandela Barnes by 7 points, the Oshkosh Republican’s backers were quick to point out he was down 11 in the same poll six years ago ahead of winning

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson and the NRSC today released a new TV ad that calls Dem rival Mandela Barnes “dangerously liberal on crime.” The spot comes one day after a new Marquette University Law School Poll showed Barnes leading Johnson, R-Oshkosh, 51-44.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Challengers Mandela Barnes and Tim Michels both saw post-primary bumps in the first Marquette University Law School Poll since they won their parties’ nominations for U.S. Senate and guv. Fifty-one percent of registered voters surveyed backed Barnes, the Dem lieutenant governor, in

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee today approved redirecting more than $21 million in bonding to offset rising costs for Milwaukee and Racine counties as they build new facilities for young offenders. Meanwhile, one committee member warned inflation will likely raise the $42 million

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — On the heels of AdImpact predicting $344 million will be spent on ads for Wisconsin races this cycle, a flurry of new spots are out in various state contests. The AdImpact projection includes $159 million in the U.S. Senate race and $126

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — GOP lawmakers today tried to intervene in a Waukesha County lawsuit seeking to bar local clerks from filling in missing information on absentee ballot envelopes. The motion was filed in a suit brought by the Waukesha County GOP and others. It came

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers today said voters will be skeptical if GOP gubernatorial primary winner Tim Michels tries to reposition himself as more of a moderate Republican. The Dem guv in a press conference on Madison’s east side this morning said voters won’t

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers today announced the Department of Corrections has picked a location on Milwaukee’s north side for a new juvenile prison to replace the troubled Lincoln Hills. A source in the guv’s office told WisPolitics.com the lot at 7930 W. Clinton