Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dem guv hopeful Tony Evers raised $1 million between the night of his primary win last week and today, his campaign said. Evers’ campaign said the haul came from more than 4,000 donors. It’s much more than the $605,052 Evers had raised

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The first post-primary Marquette University Law School Poll found tight races for guv and U.S. Senate. In the guv’s race, the survey found the race tied among likely voters with 46 percent of respondents each backing Gov. Scott Walker and state schools

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The day after the liberal One Wisconsin Now released documents detailing Scott Walker’s use of state airplanes, the guv went to Facebook to denounce the “propaganda document” from a “liberal attack group.” Walker wrote OWN “selectively omits key information” and, “I am

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The UW System wants a $108 million boost in state aid during the next two-year budget, much of it through the performance-based funding championed by Gov. Scott Walker and GOP lawmakers. Under the request, which the Board of Regents is set to

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Making his first stop after winning the party’s primary, Dem guv candidate Tony Evers today accused Gov. Scott Walker of breaking his promises to Wisconsin voters, while the ad wars started in earnest with new spots from the guv and the DGA.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Several Wisconsin municipalities reported turnout was running ahead of what they saw in 2014. Meanwhile, the Elections Commission said it saw few problems today as voters hit the polls to cast ballots. In the city of Madison, turnout was about three times

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dems are slamming AG Brad Schimel’s rollout of school safety grants as a “political gimmick.” State Dem Party Chair Martha Laning said today while Dems support the grants as necessary for protecting the state’s kids, Schimel and the Department of Justice have

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Matt Flynn continued to attack his Dem guv rivals today as the primary turns to the final days, slamming Kelda Roys and Mahlon Mitchell as “identity politics candidates” and again calling into question the electability of state schools Superintendent Tony Evers. The

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The estimated cost to finish the north leg of the Zoo Interchange has climbed 16 percent to $232.6 million. That’s partly due to inflation after Republicans banned work to complete that piece of the project in this biennium as part of the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker knocked several Dem guv candidates today for proposing to halve the state’s prison population, calling the position dangerous and based on a myth that the state’s prisons are primarily filled with non-violent drug offenders. But Dems fired back, saying

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — JFC Co-chair Alberta Darling said today Senate Republicans “probably don’t” have the votes right now to pass an incentive package to encourage Kimberly-Clark to keep jobs in Wisconsin. But she said what that final package should look like was in the “process

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The state Ethics Commission has a new administrator: Dan Carlton, a staff attorney for the Florida Senate Committee on Ethics and Elections. Carlton will serve out the remaining four-year term that ends July 1, 2019, and earn a salary of $101,000, per

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — A group calling itself Forever Wisconsin has started a broadcast TV ad in at least three markets praising Dem guv candidate Tony Evers — the first significant play by an independent group on the airwaves ahead of the Aug. 14 primary. Meanwhile,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dem guv candidate Mahlon Mitchell plays up his job as a firefighter and depicts himself as a unifying figure in the first TV spot of his campaign. The 30-second ad opens with shots of Mitchell wearing Madison Fire Department gear, as a

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — In his first TV ad, Dem guv candidate Tony Evers takes a shot at Foxconn and pledges to invest more money in education. The 30-second TV ad, airing about two weeks out from the primary, features the state schools superintendent talking to

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dem guv candidate Mike McCabe says he wouldn’t continue his campaign as a write-in candidate if he loses the primary election in August. “If I’m not the nominee, the only path would be to try to launch a write-in campaign, and I’m

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker took to Twitter today to call on Democratic gubernatorial candidate Matt Flynn to drop out of the race due to his legal work for the Milwaukee Archdiocese. “I call on all other candidates to join me in stating that

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — GOP Sen. Roger Roth today pushed for a quick Senate vote on a tax incentive package for Kimberly-Clark after the company indicated it was open to accepting state help to keep open a Fox Valley factory. The Appleton Republican also said he

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dem guv candidate Matt Flynn today continued to defend his work for the Milwaukee Archdiocese, insisting reporters were misreading a deposition from the former archbishop in which he testified the lawyer kept a list of priest accused of sexually abusing minors. Flynn