Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Opinions over Joe Biden not coming to Milwaukee for the Democratic National Convention quickly fell along partisan lines, with GOP operatives slamming the decision as abandoning the state and Dems backing it for putting public health first. The convention committee in a

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Entertainer Kayne West today filed a declaration of candidacy in his last-minute bid to make Wisconsin’s presidential ballot. But it was unclear late this afternoon if he had turned in the needed signatures to qualify for the ballot by the 5 p.m.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The COVID-19 pandemic put a slight dent in efforts to lobby the state Capitol during the first half of the year. It’s also the first time in the past decade that the amount spent during the first half of the year declined

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … Subscribers: We are sending this PM Update and Political Stock Report instead of the usual Friday REPORT, which will return next week. Thank you for subscribing! — Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald suggested today he has the votes in his caucus to overturn Gov.

From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers’ decision to issue a statewide mask mandate could set up another legal bill over the extent of his powers to combat COVID-19. But it would be with different plaintiffs and a different composition on the state Supreme Court. GOP lawmakers were quick to

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin has “no earthly understanding” why Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell waited until this week to introduce Republicans’ latest COVID-19 relief plan. The Madison Dem told reporters today the GOP aid package doesn’t adequately address any of the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — DWD is warning a GOP plan to switch the additional federal unemployment benefit to a percentage of lost wages would worsen the state’s claims backlog. The federal government has been covering an additional $600 per week for laid off workers. Dem Gov.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Madison Police Department late this afternoon announced the arrests of two women suspected of assaulting state Sen. Tim Carpenter, D-Milwaukee, last month during a protest that turned violent. According to an incident report, 26-year-old Samantha Hamer and 33-year-old Kerida O’Reilly turned

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers today pledged his administration “will not touch” state funds allocated to the Unemployment Insurance program after he called for $250 million in budget cuts to deal with the COVID-19 revenue crunch. Still, quizzed by reporters on whether the cuts

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — UW System President Tommy Thompson says today’s additional $250 million cuts in state spending would be “an obstacle” for safely reopening schools for the fall semester. Gov. Tony Evers today directed DOA Secretary Joel Brennan to work with state agencies to find

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit from two dozen Wisconsin residents who wanted to overturn a variety of public health orders and other actions taken to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Judge William Griesbach ruled the 24 plaintiffs inappropriately combined a host

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — State Sen. Tim Carpenter today apologized to Senate candidate Nada Elmikashfi for a Twitter exchange over the weekend that the chamber’s top Dem and the state party say devolved into online bullying. The Milwaukee Dem’s Twitter account was temporarily suspended over the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Political Stock Report -A collection of insider opinion- (July 11-17, 2020) Rising: Dem Party fundraising, Derrick Van Orden, Supreme Court spending, Scott Fitzgerald Mixed: Campaign committees Falling: Staush Gruszynski, unemployment Insurance program Rising Dem Party fundraising: Wisconsin Dems are beating Republicans at their own game. Badly.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dem lawmakers today unveiled legislation aimed at overhauling the state’s overwhelmed unemployment program by removing obstacles in the application process and broadening access. Meanwhile, Department of Administration Secretary Joel Brennan announced this afternoon that 100 state employees are being temporarily reassigned to

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Tony Evers’ campaign tells WisPolitics.com the guv raised $709,756 during the first half of 2020, a drop off from the more than $1 million he pulled in during the last six months of 2019. Evers’ campaign says he spent $312,253 during the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The president has seen little movement among minority voters during the past year of Marquette University Law School Polls compared to how Donald Trump fared with them in the 2016 election. But his standing among white voters has dropped compared to four

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dem AG Josh Kaul today joined a multi-state lawsuit seeking to block a new Trump administration rule that would prevent international students from studying in the U.S. this fall if their classes are totally online. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — State revenues for 2019-20 collected so far are $749 million behind what Wisconsin took in during the previous fiscal year, according to a new Legislative Fiscal Bureau. Still, LFB Director Bob Lang noted it will be late August before the agency has

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — DOT Secretary Craig Thompson said it will likely be a year to 18 months before the state could get federal approval to put the long-delayed I-94 East-West expansion back in the pipeline. That would then mean putting the project in the 2023-25