
GOP lawmakers propose handing election duties to secretary of state
Eleven GOP lawmakers are proposing legislation to abolish the Wisconsin Elections Commission and transfer the agency’s responsibilities to the secretary of state’s office.
Eleven GOP lawmakers are proposing legislation to abolish the Wisconsin Elections Commission and transfer the agency’s responsibilities to the secretary of state’s office.
Senate President Chris Kapenga is again pressuring Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to advance a resolution to impeach the state’s top election official.
Taxpayers will pick up the tab for Jon Wilcox’s private attorneys in a lawsuit over the advice he and other former conservative justices gave GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on possibly impeaching liberal Janet Protasiewicz.
Reince Priebus, chair of Milwaukee’s Host Committee ahead of the 2024 Republican National Convention, says fundraising efforts are “ahead of where we need to be” in raising $68 million before next summer.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider President Joe Biden’s chances of winning again in Wisconsin in 2024. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
NBC News’ Chuck Todd says it’ll take a landslide to oust U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin from her seat, adding President Joe Biden might need her help to win in Wisconsin.
Former GOP AG Brad Schimel, now a Waukesha County judge, today launched his bid for the state Supreme Court in 2025, pitching it as an opportunity for conservatives to take back the majority.
Conservative law firm Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty President Rick Esenberg warned the accelerated actions he expects of the new liberal Supreme Court on redistricting could complicate a tight timeline for new legislative maps. Esenberg made the comments at a WisPolitics luncheon Thursday Jeff Mandell, president of the liberal law firm Law Forward who’s involved in the lawsuit asking justices to overturn the current GOP-drawn maps.
The office of the committee’s chair said the lawmaker has put the onus on the resolution’s co-author to show she has support from at least half of the Assembly before moving it.
Remington wrote he was compelled to dismiss the open meetings violation component of American Oversight’s suit because the Washington, D.C.-based group failed to follow state statute in seeking private enforcement of the open meetings law.
Conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley asked a series of pointed questions during sometimes-tense oral arguments Tuesday suggesting she believes the redistricting lawsuit now before the court threatens its integrity and legitimacy and that her liberal colleagues have already predetermined the outcome.
President Biden’s campaign is running a pair of ads in the Milwaukee and Detroit markets around the Packers-Lions football game on Thanksgiving.
Matt Neumann, one of the hosts of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ private fundraiser in Milwaukee last week, says the event had “good turnout” that included some prominent Wisconsin Republicans.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District and Dems seeking to unseat U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Prairie du Chien. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
The MKE 2024 Host Committee has launched a directory of businesses available for contracts related to next year’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
The latest national Marquette University Law School Poll found Nikki Haley performing the best of the top three GOP presidential contenders against Joe Biden.
In this week’s Capitol Chats episode, Rock County Clerk Lisa Tollefson, co-chair of the Wisconsin County Clerks Association’s Legislative Committee, says a bill to allow absentee ballot processing before election night will absolutely help clerks do their jobs. But she says she’s not sure if clerk protections the Assembly recently passed will do enough to deter harassment that has driven many election workers away since the 2020 election.
Kennedy crisscrossed Wisconsin from January through April 1960, burning shoe leather and tire tread to win over Wisconsinites.
Voters seeking to claim indefinitely confined status would now have to apply for the designation rather than simply signing a statement under legislation the Senate approved.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss developments regarding the Brewers stadium maintenance funding deal, GOP infighting over the effort to oust Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe, a series of elections bills lawmakers approved this week and more.
Eleven GOP lawmakers are proposing legislation to abolish the Wisconsin Elections Commission and transfer the agency’s responsibilities to the secretary of state’s office.
Senate President Chris Kapenga is again pressuring Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to advance a resolution to impeach the state’s top election official.
Taxpayers will pick up the tab for Jon Wilcox’s private attorneys in a lawsuit over the advice he and other former conservative justices gave GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on possibly impeaching liberal Janet Protasiewicz.
Reince Priebus, chair of Milwaukee’s Host Committee ahead of the 2024 Republican National Convention, says fundraising efforts are “ahead of where we need to be” in raising $68 million before next summer.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider President Joe Biden’s chances of winning again in Wisconsin in 2024. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
NBC News’ Chuck Todd says it’ll take a landslide to oust U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin from her seat, adding President Joe Biden might need her help to win in Wisconsin.
Former GOP AG Brad Schimel, now a Waukesha County judge, today launched his bid for the state Supreme Court in 2025, pitching it as an opportunity for conservatives to take back the majority.
Conservative law firm Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty President Rick Esenberg warned the accelerated actions he expects of the new liberal Supreme Court on redistricting could complicate a tight timeline for new legislative maps. Esenberg made the comments at a WisPolitics luncheon Thursday Jeff Mandell, president of the liberal law firm Law Forward who’s involved in the lawsuit asking justices to overturn the current GOP-drawn maps.
The office of the committee’s chair said the lawmaker has put the onus on the resolution’s co-author to show she has support from at least half of the Assembly before moving it.
Remington wrote he was compelled to dismiss the open meetings violation component of American Oversight’s suit because the Washington, D.C.-based group failed to follow state statute in seeking private enforcement of the open meetings law.
Conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley asked a series of pointed questions during sometimes-tense oral arguments Tuesday suggesting she believes the redistricting lawsuit now before the court threatens its integrity and legitimacy and that her liberal colleagues have already predetermined the outcome.
President Biden’s campaign is running a pair of ads in the Milwaukee and Detroit markets around the Packers-Lions football game on Thanksgiving.
Matt Neumann, one of the hosts of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ private fundraiser in Milwaukee last week, says the event had “good turnout” that included some prominent Wisconsin Republicans.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District and Dems seeking to unseat U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Prairie du Chien. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
The MKE 2024 Host Committee has launched a directory of businesses available for contracts related to next year’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
The latest national Marquette University Law School Poll found Nikki Haley performing the best of the top three GOP presidential contenders against Joe Biden.
In this week’s Capitol Chats episode, Rock County Clerk Lisa Tollefson, co-chair of the Wisconsin County Clerks Association’s Legislative Committee, says a bill to allow absentee ballot processing before election night will absolutely help clerks do their jobs. But she says she’s not sure if clerk protections the Assembly recently passed will do enough to deter harassment that has driven many election workers away since the 2020 election.
Kennedy crisscrossed Wisconsin from January through April 1960, burning shoe leather and tire tread to win over Wisconsinites.
Voters seeking to claim indefinitely confined status would now have to apply for the designation rather than simply signing a statement under legislation the Senate approved.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss developments regarding the Brewers stadium maintenance funding deal, GOP infighting over the effort to oust Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe, a series of elections bills lawmakers approved this week and more.