Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Watertown Police Department says it’s investigating election fraud allegations against 37th AD candidate Charisse Daniels. Republican Assembly Campaign Committee Chair Jenny Toftness filed a challenge to the Dem’s nomination papers yesterday, claiming 43 of the candidates’ 201 signatures were invalid because

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The WBA Foundation will limit its debates this summer of GOP U.S. Senate candidates and Dem guv hopefuls to four participants each, based largely of the top finishers in upcoming Marquette University Law School polls, the group announced today. The are currently

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Milwaukee County Judge David Borowski said he’ll decide within a few weeks whether to mount a bid to replace Shirley Abrahamson on the state Supreme Court next year. “As with life, [with] running for office, timing is everything. And for me, one

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Shirley Abrahamson, who became the first woman to serve on the Wisconsin Supreme Court with her appointment in 1976 and then rose to chief justice, won’t seek re-election next year. But the liberal justice plans to fill out her final term. Abrahamson,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — AG Brad Schimel announced today the last of the backlogged rape kits have been submitted to outside labs for testing. Schimel previously projected the state would test the remaining kits by the end of the year and said during a news conference

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — An attorney for DNR Secretary Dan Meyer will review an administrative law judge’s decision invalidating a frac sand mining permit. DNR attorney Mark Herman will decide whether to honor Administrative Law Judge Eric Defort’s ruling at the beginning of this month that

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Foxconn Technology Group insisted today it remains committed to its pledged $10 billion investment in southeastern Wisconsin, though the Taiwanese manufacturer also plans to make smaller screens at its Racine County site. The statement comes after a report from Nikkei Asian Review,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dem appointee Jeralyn Wendelberger resigned from the state Ethics Commission last week so she could go to work for a group that lobbies the state. State law prohibits members of the commission from working for a lobbying principal. Wendelberger’s resignation has not

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Candidates for the 59th AD will have an extra three days to file their nomination papers after Rep. Jesse Kremer failed to file his notice of non-candidacy by Friday’s deadline, according to the Elections Commission’s administrator. Kremer, R-Kewaskum, announced earlier this year

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — U.S. Sens. Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson today split on the nomination of Gina Haspel, who was confirmed as CIA director despite her involvement in the agency’s torture program. Hours before the Senate voted 54-45 to confirm her as the first female

From WisPolitics.com … — Alex Renard’s campaign says the Green Bay operations manager hasn’t yet made a decision about whether he’ll run for the 1st SD again this fall. Renard, who lost in the Republican primary for the seat to Rep. André Jacque yesterday, has until June 1 to turn

From WisPolitics.com … — Rep. Ed Brooks, who announced his retirement due to his ongoing battle with leukemia, said he received a new round of chemotherapy yesterday and was set for another today. Brooks told reporters during a call this morning his doctor in mid-April detected a low platelet count

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — GOP state Rep. Ed Brooks, of Reedsburg, announced today he will not seek re-election, citing his health. Brooks’ office said in a statement recent tests “indicated he needs to maintain control over the leukemia that he battled into remission last year.” “I’ve

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dem guv candidate Kelda Roys said longtime friend and rival Matt Flynn’s defense of the Milwaukee Archdiocese against priest abuse victims is serious but is withholding further comment until talking with him. Flynn’s defense of the archdiocese from 1989 to 2004 has

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Sen. Lena Taylor today decried what she called a “political lynching,” insisting she had done nothing that warranted her removal from the Legislature’s powerful Joint Finance Committee. Flanked by supporters at a Milwaukee news conference, Taylor defended her actions at a Milwaukee

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — State Sen. Lena Taylor was ordered to undergo training after it was found she bullied an employee who filed a complaint against her as well as other staffers, according to documents released today. Along with giving Taylor three months to complete training

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — GOP businessman Tim Michels, who ran for the U.S. Senate in 2004, told WisPolitics.com he is passing on another bid after receiving some late overtures. “I’m flattered to be considered once again to run for the US Senate. It’s clear that I’m

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Taxpayers are on the hook for more than $1,800 following a new settlement in an open records case. The deal came about after the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty sued Rep. Jonathan Brostoff earlier this year because the Milwaukee Dem