Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — DOT Secretary Craig Thompson says the Evers administration is looking to get back to “regular order” by reconvening the Transportation Projects Commission, which hasn’t met since 2014. The guv today announced the body will meet Dec. 6, ending the hiatus. And Thompson

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers today signed a dozen bills, including one to expand the use of telemedicine to increase access to health care professionals and another to make it legal for minors to operate a lemonade stand without a license. The telehealth bill,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers today issued his third veto of the week while signing 13 other bills. Evers wrote in his veto message for AB 53 that he objected to a mandate that would “negatively impact the privacy of parents of students in

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Voter support for impeaching and removing President Trump slipped among Wisconsin voters in the latest Marquette University Law School Poll. Meanwhile, the head-to-head matchups in the presidential race shifted in the president’s favor compared to Marquette’s October polling. Poll Director Charles Franklin

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Liberal Supreme Court candidate Jill Karofsky today traded barbs with sitting conservative Justice Daniel Kelly, accusing Scott Walker’s appointee of ruling on cases involving conservative causes in a way that “feels like corruption.” “It just defies logic that every time a group

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers and AG Josh Kaul today announced a $1.5 million expansion of treatment and diversion options for non-violent offenders the guv said “moves our state closer to a more compassionate and common-sense approach to criminal justice.” At a Capitol news

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers is asking the Joint Finance Committee to release $3.75 million annually to fight the homeless problem. The money would cover the costs of initiatives proposed by the Interagency Council on Homelessness. The guv’s letter comes a week after Senate

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers today slammed Senate Republicans’ decision to fire Ag Secretary Brad Pfaff as a “political assassination.” Evers told reporters in the Wisconsin Dells “civility is at my core,” but added the move to reject Pfaff’s nomination “pushed me to a

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — State Sen. Chris Kapenga announced today he won’t run for the 5th CD, so far leaving Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald as the only announced GOP candidate in the heavily Republican seat. Sources indicated earlier this fall that Kapenga, R-Delafield, was laying

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers has hired Brad Pfaff as DOA’s director of Business and Rural Development with a slight pay cut compared to his old job as DATCP secretary. In the new role, Pfaff will advocate for Wisconsin small businesses and rural communities,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly GOP lawmakers failed to meet the two-thirds threshold to override three of Gov. Tony Evers’ budget vetoes. After more than two hours of heated debate the chamber voted along party lines. The trio of override votes received the support of all

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty today sued DPI alleging the agency violated state law by releasing embargoed school achievement data to media outlets ahead of the data’s public release. What’s more, the lawsuit filed on behalf of School Choice

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers ripped Senate Republicans today for rejecting his nomination to lead DATCP, accusing them of voting against Wisconsin’s farmers in forcing Brad Pfaff out of his job. Evers surprised the chamber by sitting just off the Senate floor during the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Evers administration, ag groups and even his old boss U.S. Rep. Ron Kind made a last-minute push today to — at a minimum — delay a confirmation vote on DATCP Secretary Brad Pfaff as they tried to persuade Republicans not to

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee today for the first time signed off on a proposed settlement worked out by DOJ under December’s lame-duck laws. But Dem members continued to knock the GOP-run committee for what they said is a broken process that is

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — GOP lawmakers, accused by Dems of holding up money included in the budget for a suicide hotline, today knocked Gov. Tony Evers because his administration hasn’t yet released the funds. Meanwhile, the Department of Health Services said it sent a request today

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, who said earlier this month that impeaching the president should be a “last resort,” told reporters in Washington, D.C., today that he plans to back a proposal to formalize the House inquiry. The La Crosse Dem’s office didn’t

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers today signed an executive order creating a panel to encourage participation in the 2020 Census. Speaking at a news conference in Milwaukee, Evers noted that Wisconsin was among the national leaders in census participation rates in 2010. But the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Majority Leader and 5th CD candidate Scott Fitzgerald today said the hallmark of the fall session would be GOP lawmakers “playing goalie” by blocking the legislative priorities of Gov. Tony Evers. Speaking at a WisPolitics.com luncheon in Madison this afternoon, Fitzgerald,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Vice President Mike Pence during a stop in Pleasant Prairie today called on Congress to pass the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, saying it’s “a win for Wisconsin and a win for America.” Pence, speaking at an America First Policies event at the Uline warehouse