Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — U.S. Rep. Ron Kind has the biggest warchest heading into the August primary of all sitting Wisconsin congressmen seeking re-election this year. The La Crosse Dem has $3.1 million in the bank, after raising $364,728 over the second quarter of the year.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker raised nearly $5.5 million over the first six months of 2018, about one-third less than he pulled in for the same time period four years ago as he geared up for re-election. Walker also will report nearly $6 million

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin won’t support President Trump’s pick of Brett Kavanaugh for the U.S. Supreme Court, saying she doesn’t have confidence he’ll be a “fair, impartial and independent” justice. The Madison Dem’s announcement this afternoon immediately drew fire from GOP rivals

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. is writing off a more than $1 million loan the agency made to now-bankrupt Green Box in northeastern Wisconsin. The waste-recycling company and its owner, De Pere businessman Ron Van Den Heuvel, have been plagued by scandal

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dem guv hopeful Kelda Roys announced today she raised $650,000 during the first six months of the year and finished June with more than $650,000 in the bank. The haul brings Roys’ overall fundraising for the campaign to about $800,000 after she

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dem U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan says he plans to officially introduce his legislation to abolish ICE on Thursday, as he defended the plan and knocked President Trump’s border policies. Meanwhile, fellow Wisconsin Dem U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin today came out against shutting

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Department of Revenue announced today its administrative rule to allow the state to begin collecting the sales tax on some online transactions will include an exemption for smaller retailers. That is consistent with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that cleared the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Walker administration plans to begin collecting on Oct. 1 sales taxes from online retailers with no presence in Wisconsin, a projected $90 million boost to state coffers in the current fiscal year, according to a new LFB memo. The guv’s office

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — AG Brad Schimel today railed against former Corrections Secretary Ed Wall, saying the then-agency head “failed” to address problems at the state’s juvenile prisons. “He was the person responsible for what was happening inside the walls at Lincoln Hills School and Copper

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Today’s Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling giving Tony Evers the power to pick his own attorney in a lawsuit over the administrative rules process is a “great win for common sense,” the state schools superintendent and Dem guv candidate said. The state DOJ,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Two Madison Dems are calling on guv candidate Matt Flynn to drop out of the race over his defense of the Milwaukee Archdiocese during the priest sexual abuse scandal. The move, from Reps. Chris Taylor and Melissa Sargent, comes after several women’s

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker said he plans to implement a sales tax for online purchases from out-of-state merchants, but use the additional revenue to reduce other taxes. But Walker did not set a hard deadline on when the state would begin collecting the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Former Corrections Secretary Ed Wall endorsed Dem guv candidate Tony Evers in a new campaign video and railed against Gov. Scott Walker. The video centers around Walker’s handling of reports of abuse at the Lincoln Hills Youth prison, which is slated to

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker’s job approval outweighs his disapproval for the first time in four years, President Trump is underwater and the challengers in both the guv and U.S. Senate fields are still largely unknown two months before the primary, according to the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dems are blasting Gov. Scott Walker for sending Wisconsin National Guard troops to the southern border as the Trump administration continues pursuing its family separation policy for undocumented migrants. But a Walker spokeswoman countered that the policy is a federal one, and

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dems are continuing to call for nonpartisan redistricting legislation following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today to send back a challenge to the state’s Republican-drawn maps to federal district court. Meanwhile, Republicans celebrated the unanimous opinion to return the case to a

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee tweaked Gov. Scott Walker’s plan for a boost in federal highway aids, putting more of the money toward fixing Wisconsin’s deteriorating bridges and less into knocking out I-94 north-south to, at least partially, benefit the Foxconn plant in