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

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is suing the Trump administration over changes to family planning grants that the group says could harm low-income patients. PPWI, along with affiliates in Utah and Ohio, today filed a lawsuit in a federal district court in the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Democratic state lawmakers argued today House Republicans will be “taking food out of the mouths of children” if they pass their current version of the farm bill. A Legislative Fiscal Bureau memo released by the Dems shows an estimated 75,720 people, or

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker is going up on the air next week with the first TV ads of his re-election bid, according to multiple Dem sources. One Dem source said the initial buy is scheduled to run through the first week of July.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker is to introduce Vice President Mike Pence at an America First Policies event on the GOP tax overhaul in Milwaukee tomorrow, the White House said today. Pence is slated to arrive at General Mitchell International Airport at 3:30 p.m.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Wisconsin Supreme Court today heard oral arguments in a case that asks them to determine the limits of free speech at private universities. The case, between Marquette University and former political science professor John McAdams, has received widespread media attention and

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Elections Commission today unanimously approved a plan for accepting $7 million in federal elections security funds. The funding is intended to help the commission confront security threats in light of Russian attempts to hack Wisconsin’s elections systems before the 2016 general

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — A new poll from Paul Soglin’s campaign shows the Madison mayor in second place behind Dem rival and state schools Superintendent Tony Evers. The poll, done by FM3 Research for Soglin’s campaign and distributed at a WisPolitics.com luncheon in Madison today, shows

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker today was firm in squashing the idea he might join the Trump administration sometime this term or next, adding he hasn’t been approached with any such offer. “I can unequivocally without hesitation tell you I will never willingly leave

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The possible GOP field for the 1st CD continued to shape up today with Assembly Speaker Robin Vos saying he hopes to make a decision by tomorrow, state Sen. Dave Craig weighing a bid, and Reps. Tyler August and Amy Loudenbeck taking

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dems are seizing on Paul Ryan’s decision to forgo a re-election bid to boost their argument the 1st CD and control of the House are in play this fall. Republicans, meanwhile, sought to counter that assertion, while the names of a string

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Billionaire liberal activist Tom Steyer was on the UW-Madison and Marquette University campuses today, urging young people to vote in November. Steyer has committed $2.5 million through the group he founded, NextGen America, to register and energize millennial voters in the state,