An effort by Rep. Janel Brandtjen to bring her resolution to impeach the state’s top election official to the floor for a vote was rejected Thursday.
Two more polls released Thursday found a tight race for president in Wisconsin between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
The Assembly passed a series of election-related measures, including a pair of omnibus bills that would give clerks more whistleblower and privacy protections and allow them to start processing absentee ballots before election night.
The governor would be prohibited from filling vacancies in constitutional offices without a special election or Senate approval, and judicial candidates who turn 75 after Election Day would be barred from taking office under another pair of bills the Assembly passed Thursday.
Voters will now weigh in on whether non-citizens should be barred from voting in Wisconsin and if local and state governments should be prohibited from using private money to cover election costs after a pair of constitutional amendments cleared the Assembly.
GOP legislative leaders are demanding the Wisconsin Elections Commission appoint a new administrator after a filing from the agency’s DOJ attorneys contradicted statements from Dem commissioners that they had no power to do so. Republicans have asked a Dane County judge to rule the commission had a duty to appoint a new commissioner after Meagan Wolfe’s four-year term ended in July.
President Joe Biden ran stronger against former President Donald Trump than he did against Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley in the latest Marquette University Law School Poll. Meanwhile, Trump strengthened his position in the GOP primary field compared to the latest poll in June, holding a 20-point lead on DeSantis after being neck-and-neck with the Florida guv in June.
Schimming said the state GOP, in coordination with the Republican National Committee, is preparing a major push to encourage Republicans to vote early ahead of the November election. Meanwhile, Wikler says Dems must not take anything for granted.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Gov. Tony Evers’ lawsuit against legislative Republicans over blocking Universities of Wisconsin pay raises, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ move to send articles of impeachment against the state’s top elections official to a committee, upcoming action in the state Legislature and more.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the controversy over GOP efforts to remove Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has sent to committee a resolution to impeach the state’s top election official, six weeks after five lawmakers introduced the proposal and on the heels of a new TV campaign pressuring him to move on it.
A group billing itself as the Wisconsin Elections Committee is up with a new TV ad that threatens to oust Assembly Speaker Robin Vos unless he allows the impeachment process against the state’s top elections official to proceed.
The Assembly Campaigns and Elections Committee approved three constitutional amendments that would change voting requirements and ban the use of private funds to cover election costs.
Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson says he’d back a continuing resolution to keep the government open and funded through April as lawmakers race to avert another government shutdown by Nov. 17.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss possible changes to the Brewers stadium maintenance deal, election bills lawmakers are considering, the retirement of DNR Secretary Adam Payne, a GOP push to eliminate race-based criteria for college programs and more.
Assembly Campaigns and Elections Committee Chair Scott Krug and ranking Dem member Lee Snodgrass agree the push to impeach Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe “is a distraction.”
GOP lawmakers have asked the state Supreme Court to dismiss the redistricting suit the liberal majority agreed to hear.
Backers of two constitutional amendments say they plan to place on the April ballot one that would bar the use of private resources to administer elections in Wisconsin. Another that would prohibit non-citizens from voting in local, state or national elections is slated for the November 2024 ballot.
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan closed out his congressional campaign account by transferring the remaining balance to a nonprofit that he founded to improve public policy and communities.
Republican Rejani Raveendran has formally registered her candidacy for the U.S. Senate with the FEC, telling WisPolitics in a text message she is now “well beyond” the threshold of $5,000 raised before having to file.
An effort by Rep. Janel Brandtjen to bring her resolution to impeach the state’s top election official to the floor for a vote was rejected Thursday.
Two more polls released Thursday found a tight race for president in Wisconsin between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
The Assembly passed a series of election-related measures, including a pair of omnibus bills that would give clerks more whistleblower and privacy protections and allow them to start processing absentee ballots before election night.
The governor would be prohibited from filling vacancies in constitutional offices without a special election or Senate approval, and judicial candidates who turn 75 after Election Day would be barred from taking office under another pair of bills the Assembly passed Thursday.
Voters will now weigh in on whether non-citizens should be barred from voting in Wisconsin and if local and state governments should be prohibited from using private money to cover election costs after a pair of constitutional amendments cleared the Assembly.
GOP legislative leaders are demanding the Wisconsin Elections Commission appoint a new administrator after a filing from the agency’s DOJ attorneys contradicted statements from Dem commissioners that they had no power to do so. Republicans have asked a Dane County judge to rule the commission had a duty to appoint a new commissioner after Meagan Wolfe’s four-year term ended in July.
President Joe Biden ran stronger against former President Donald Trump than he did against Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley in the latest Marquette University Law School Poll. Meanwhile, Trump strengthened his position in the GOP primary field compared to the latest poll in June, holding a 20-point lead on DeSantis after being neck-and-neck with the Florida guv in June.
Schimming said the state GOP, in coordination with the Republican National Committee, is preparing a major push to encourage Republicans to vote early ahead of the November election. Meanwhile, Wikler says Dems must not take anything for granted.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Gov. Tony Evers’ lawsuit against legislative Republicans over blocking Universities of Wisconsin pay raises, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ move to send articles of impeachment against the state’s top elections official to a committee, upcoming action in the state Legislature and more.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the controversy over GOP efforts to remove Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has sent to committee a resolution to impeach the state’s top election official, six weeks after five lawmakers introduced the proposal and on the heels of a new TV campaign pressuring him to move on it.
A group billing itself as the Wisconsin Elections Committee is up with a new TV ad that threatens to oust Assembly Speaker Robin Vos unless he allows the impeachment process against the state’s top elections official to proceed.
The Assembly Campaigns and Elections Committee approved three constitutional amendments that would change voting requirements and ban the use of private funds to cover election costs.
Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson says he’d back a continuing resolution to keep the government open and funded through April as lawmakers race to avert another government shutdown by Nov. 17.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss possible changes to the Brewers stadium maintenance deal, election bills lawmakers are considering, the retirement of DNR Secretary Adam Payne, a GOP push to eliminate race-based criteria for college programs and more.
Assembly Campaigns and Elections Committee Chair Scott Krug and ranking Dem member Lee Snodgrass agree the push to impeach Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe “is a distraction.”
GOP lawmakers have asked the state Supreme Court to dismiss the redistricting suit the liberal majority agreed to hear.
Backers of two constitutional amendments say they plan to place on the April ballot one that would bar the use of private resources to administer elections in Wisconsin. Another that would prohibit non-citizens from voting in local, state or national elections is slated for the November 2024 ballot.
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan closed out his congressional campaign account by transferring the remaining balance to a nonprofit that he founded to improve public policy and communities.
Republican Rejani Raveendran has formally registered her candidacy for the U.S. Senate with the FEC, telling WisPolitics in a text message she is now “well beyond” the threshold of $5,000 raised before having to file.