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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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:

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

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

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

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