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Nelson suspends campaign for U.S. Senate

July 25, 2022 By Bob Hague

Tom Nelson has suspended his campaign for the U.S. Senate in Wisconsin. In a brief statement released on social media, the Outagamie County Executive on Monday threw his support to Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes.

Mandela Barnes

“I’m proud to say that the progressive vote is consolidated, and the progressive family is one, because today I’m endorsing Mandela Barnes for the U.S. Senate,” Nelson said. “I would like all my supporters to join us, because Mandela is a good man, a good progressive, and he will be a strong nominee this fall.”

Today I am suspending my campaign for the U.S. Senate. I am so thankful for the work that we have done and the movement we have built.

On August 9th, Wisconsin will choose a progressive champion to be our nominee. Let’s go @TheOtherMandela! pic.twitter.com/K6YdF8TDag

— Tom Nelson (@NelsonforWI) July 25, 2022

Nelson had trailed in recent polls, behind Barnes, Bucks executive Alex Lasry and state Treasurer Sarah Godlewski. The winner of the August Democratic primary will face Republican U.S. Senator Ron Johnson in November.

Barnes responded to the news on Twitter. “I deeply respect Tom Nelson’s commitment to the working people in this state and am thankful to have his endorsement.”

 

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: News, Politics / Govt

U.S. House passes Respect for Marriage Act

July 20, 2022 By Bob Hague

Rep. Mark Pocan

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday to defend same-sex marriages. The Respect for Marriage Act. It removes the prohibition on same-sex marriage set forth in the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, stipulating that any individual’s marriage is federally recognized if it’s legal in that person’s state.

Same-sex marriages in Wisconsin have been legally recognized since October 2014, when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of a ruling that had found Wisconsin’s amendment banning same-sex marriage to be unconstitutional.

Republicans who opposed the measure called it unnecessary, while Democrats argued marriage equality is now under legal threat.

“Because the extremist packed Supreme Court recently took away a half a century of law on Roe, and in that decision Justice Clarence Thomas said they should revisit it on marriage equality,” said Wisconsin Democrat Mark Pocan during floor debate. “We have people in this House and in the Senate like Senator Ted Cruz who’ve said the exact same thing.”

“I want to make sure that my husband Phil can visit me in the hospital should I have to go back again like when I had a triple bypass a few years ago,” Pocan said. “I want to make sure my husband has my earned benefits for retirement and Social Security. I want to make sure that my husband is taken care of just like your spouses are taken care of.”

Rep. Bryan Steil

Representative Bryan Stiel of Janesville was among 47 Republicans voting for the bill, which passed 267-157. It now moves to the U.S. Senate. In a tweet, Wisconsin Democrat Tammy Baldwin urged colleagues to support it.

If you are a Senator who supports marriage equality then you will support our bipartisan Respect for Marriage Act to protect this freedom and right for same-sex and interracial marriages. Let’s stand together and protect the progress we have made.

— Sen. Tammy Baldwin (@SenatorBaldwin) July 20, 2022

“If you are a Senator who supports marriage equality then you will support our bipartisan Respect for Marriage Act to protect this freedom and right for same-sex and interracial marriages. Let’s stand together and protect the progress we have made.”

 

Filed Under: News, Politics / Govt, Top Story

New COVID-19 variants are very easy to catch

July 11, 2022 By Bob Hague

New variants of COVID-19 are reminding us that the pandemic is not over. UW Health’s Chief Quality Officer Dr. Jeff Pothof, said two new variants are much more transmissible – even among those fully vaccinated or with prior infection.

“It’s really easy to catch COVID-19 with, you know, BA-5 or BA-4,” Pothof said. “With these variants that are so contagious, it really probably comes down to a matter of, you know, minutes, or maybe even seconds of being in close proximity to someone who’s shutting this virus for you to get infected.”

Today’s #COVID19_WI update, and a thank you to the 2M+ who’ve gotten an additional/booster dose. You’re protecting yourself and people around you. Learn more about staying up to date with #COVID19 vaccines and boosters: https://t.co/2FpaUfvjDC pic.twitter.com/6X8kHUnY74

— WIDeptHealthServices (@DHSWI) July 11, 2022

Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 in Wisconsin are again increasing. “But even what we call mild illness with COVID-19, it’s not so mild,” Pothof said. “It’s like a really bad case of the flu.”

Potof said people who are immunocompromised – or who just don’t want to get sick – may want to mask in public spaces and avoid crowded indoor settings.

Filed Under: Health / Medicine, News

Highland Park mass shooter contemplated second attack in Madison area

July 6, 2022 By Bob Hague

The man who’s confessed to the July 4th mass shooting in suburban Chicago came close to committing a second attack in the Madison area.

Lake County Major Crimes Task Force spokesperson Chris Covelli said Robert Crimo III had a rifle and 60 rounds of ammo with him, and considered an attack on a celebration in the Madison area. “Indications are that he hadn’t put enough thought and research into it.”

Crimo headed back to Chicagoland and his eventual capture, but not before ditching his phone. “He did dispose of his phone in Madison area, in Middleton. That phone has since been recovered.”

The 21-year-old shooter has confessed to the attack on the Highland Park parade and is charged with seven counts of first-degree murder.

Filed Under: Crime / Courts, News

Nicholson drops out of race for Wisconsin governor

July 5, 2022 By Bob Hague

Republican Kevin Nicholson has dropped out of the race for Wisconsin governor.

The business consultant and former U.S. Marine said that over the past week it’s become clear the only path forward for his campaign is attacking the other Republican candidates and running a very negative campaign. Nicholson said that was something he wanted to avoid.

pic.twitter.com/bZo5hKquW2

— Kevin Nicholson (@KevinMNicholson) July 5, 2022

Nicholson’s decision leaves former Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, pipeline construction executive Tim Michels, and state Representative Tim Ramthun to square off in the August 10 Republican primary with the winner taking on incumbent governor Tony Evers in November.

Nicholson said he has no plans to endorse any candidate prior to the primary and will support the nominee.

Filed Under: News, Politics / Govt

Evers condemns SCOWIS ruling allowing Walker appointee to remain on Natural Resources Board

June 29, 2022 By Bob Hague

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that a conservative member of the Natural Resources Board doesn’t have to relinquish his seat, even though his term expired last year.

Fred Prehn was appointed to the board by former Republican governor Scott Walker. His term ended in May of last year. But in 4-to-3 decision, the justices upheld a Dane County judge’s ruling that Prehn, a Wausau dentist, may keep serving until a successor is confirmed by the state Senate. Attorney General Josh Kaul had sued to remove Prehn.

Republican leaders have declined to schedule a confirmation hearing for Governor Evers’ appointee. The board sets policy for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

Governor Tony Evers condemned the court’s decision.

Today’s #SCOWIS decision in Prehn continues to underscore the erosion of democratic institutions at the hands of Republicans in this state. It’s wrongheaded, it’s shortsighted, and it’s politics at its most dangerous.

Read my full statement ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/iBR6WCojS7

— Governor Tony Evers (@GovEvers) June 29, 2022

Prehn cited a 1964 state Supreme Court decision that says appointed board members can remain seated after their term expires until a replacement is confirmed by the state Senate. Walker appointees continue to hold a majority on the 7 member board.

 

 

Filed Under: Environment / Conservation, News, Politics / Govt

Pro-life groups condemn Kahl lawsuit to overturn 1849 abortion ban

June 29, 2022 By Bob Hague

Attorney General Josh Kaul has filed a lawsuit, seeking to overturn Wisconsin’s 1849 law criminalizing abortion.

In Milwaukee on Tuesday, the Democratic AG said Wisconsinites need clarity on how the law applies now. “The truth of the matter is, the legislature has left us without that, and with conflicting laws in place. So we’re going to do as much as we can to provide clarity but, we’ve been left in a difficult spot. It’s why it’s so important that Republican legislators come into session to protect reproductive freedom.”

The suit, filed in Dane County Court, argues the 1849 law has been superseded by other restrictions in the years since and is therefore unenforceable. That includes a ban on abortion after 20 weeks that Republicans approved in 2015.

Kaul described the more than century old statute as “deeply ant-family.”

“A lot of the women who obtain abortions are mothers,” he said. “They’re often in very difficult circumstances, including potentially ectopic pregnancies that could leave kids who are alive without a parent. It is so important that we empower women and their families to make these decisions and not politicians.”

Abortion remains legal in two neighboring states – but Governor Tony Evers said that’s not a real solution for individuals needing one in Wisconsin.

“Of course the folks in Illinois and Minnesota are being helpful, we’re hoping to have services available nearest to our borders as possible,” Evers said. “But at the end of the day, that is not going to help all sorts of vulnerable women who can’t cross our borders, because they don’t have the wherewithal to do that.”

BREAKING: @WisDOJ AG Kaul and I are filing a direct challenge to Wisconsin’s 1849 criminal abortion law banning nearly all abortions, even in cases of rape and incest.

We won’t go back, we won’t back down, and we are going to fight like hell. pic.twitter.com/DraylV4i1D

— Governor Tony Evers (@GovEvers) June 28, 2022

Pro-life groups are condemning Kaul’s action. “While I’m not at all surprised that a lawsuit has been filed, I am definitely disappointed in Attorney General Josh Kaul” said Julaine Appling, President of Wisconsin Family Action. “His job is to defend Wisconsin law, not to challenge a duly enacted statute that he and the governor disagree with. This is obvious pandering to Evers’ and Kaul’s political allies.”

Gov. Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul are challenging Wisconsin’s state law banning most abortions with a new lawsuit. Hopefully, this dubious political stunt will be quickly dismissed. https://t.co/zEyVTJ47Kc

— ✰✰Wisconsin Family Action✰✰ (@WIFamilyAction) June 29, 2022

“Wisconsin’s 1849 criminal abortion ban is in full effect and that is why Wisconsin’s abortion providers, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin and Affiliated Medical Services, are no longer performing abortions,” said Matt Sande, Pro-Life Wisconsin Legislative Director. “It is the job of our state’s top law enforcement officer, Attorney General Kaul, to enforce laws protecting human life, not sue to overturn them.”

Filed Under: Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt, Top Story

Wisconsin politicians react as SCOTUS overturns Roe v. Wade

June 24, 2022 By Bob Hague

Republican and Democratic Wisconsin politicians are reacting, to Friday’s action by the the U.S. Supreme Court, overturning Roe v. Wade.

“This is an absolutely disastrous and unconscionable decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, the consequences of which I hoped to never see again in my lifetime,” Governor Tony Evers said in a statement. “I know many across our state and nation are scared—worried about their own health and about the health and safety of their family members, friends, and neighbors, who could very soon see the ability to make their own reproductive healthcare decisions stripped from them.”

Here’s my full statement on #SCOTUS decision to overturn #Roe. pic.twitter.com/HsnEOwRtQk

— Governor Tony Evers (@GovEvers) June 24, 2022

The high court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, is a reversal that leaves states free to drastically reduce or even outlaw abortion, a right to which was established nearly 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade.

“Today is a victory for life and for those who have fought for decades to protect the unborn,” said U.S. Senator Ron Johnson in a statement. “For almost fifty years the decision of nine unelected Justices have prevented a democratically derived consensus on the profound moral issue of abortion to be formed.  This decision will now allow that democratic process to unfold in each state to determine at what point does society have the responsibility to protect life.”

Today is a victory for life and for those who have fought for decades to protect the unborn. For almost 50 years the decision of nine unelected Justices prevented a democratically derived consensus on the profound moral issue of abortion. Now the debate can be returned to states. pic.twitter.com/cmH8jwIJDd

— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) June 24, 2022

Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion ban could be challenged in court, now that Roe V. Wade has been overturned. Attorney General Josh Kaul said the Wisconsin Department of Justice could be called into any such litigation, which is likely.

Kaul said there are newer state statutes in conflict with the older law. ” There are statutes that talk about exemptions for both, not just the life, but the health of the mother,” Kaul said. “The 19th-century ban doesn’t have an exception for the protection of health. So there are places where the laws are in conflict and I think that’s going to be something the courts will ultimately resolve.”

Kaul said as long as he is attorney general, the DOJ will not prosecute any cases under the 1849 law.

“An activist majority of the Supreme Court has overturned Roe and nearly 50 years of precedent, taking away the constitutional rights of American women to make their own personal choices about their body, their health, and their family,” U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin said in a statement. “Republicans have taken Wisconsin women back to 1849 and it is Republicans who want to keep us there with support for having politicians interfere in the freedoms of women who will now have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers have had for decades.”

My statement on on the Supreme Court overturning Roe and Wisconsin women being taken back to 1849: pic.twitter.com/ETWk1QBy7C

— Sen. Tammy Baldwin (@SenatorBaldwin) June 24, 2022

“Let’s call this what it is: a brazen, political act that rolls back essential human rights,” said state Assembly Minority Leader Greta Neuabauer (D-Racine). “By striking down a precedent of nearly 50 years, the U.S. Supreme Court has sent our country back to the 1970’s and Wisconsin back to the 1840’s.”

“Wisconsin statute specifies that an ‘unborn child’ is a human being from the time of conception until it is born alive,” said state Senate President Chris Kapenga (R-Delafiueld) in a statement. “And, if there is a medical issue where the life of the mother is in jeopardy, the life of the mother can be saved. These statutes are now in effect.”

WJMC-Rice Lake contributed to this report 

Filed Under: Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt, Top Story

Republicans gavel in and out of special session to overturn Wisconsin’s abortion law

June 22, 2022 By Bob Hague

Abortion advocates rallied in the Wisconsin Capitol rotunda Wednesday, as Republicans failed to act on a special legislative session called by Governor Tony Evers, to repeal Wisconsin’s 1849 law criminalizing abortion.

Republicans today defied the people of this state and rejected my special session to repeal Wisconsin’s criminal abortion ban and ensure reproductive rights in Wisconsin are protected if #SCOTUS overturns #Roe. Read my full statement ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/WcLrHO1N2v

— Governor Tony Evers (@GovEvers) June 22, 2022

“This is a law that was passed during a time when women didn’t have the right to vote, or hold elected office,” said Tanya Atkinson, President of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin. “During a time when we didn’t understand that people of all genders need access to abortion. This law could go back into effect if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade making abortion a felony crime in the state of Wisconsin.”

The century old state law goes into effect once the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe versus Wade, which is expected to occur soon. ”We know the irreparable harm that will be caused if abortion is not safe and legal,” said Atkinson. “Abortion does not go away, it becomes unsafe.”

The people of Wisconsin support access to abortion! Our legislators need to listen and pass the Abortion Rights Preservation Act!#PinkOutTheCapitol #BansOffOurBodies pic.twitter.com/1MwxE6ThOn

— Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin (@PPAWI) June 22, 2022

”We know that the people who make these decisions will always have access,” said Darlene Johns of Black Leaders Organizing Communities. “They can fly their daughters out, they can fly their family out. they can fly their mistresses out to wherever they need to get access. Hell, they can fly the doctor in to perform a procedure. We know that these bans don’t make it safer. It doesn’t make the problem go away, and it makes it happen behind closed doors. It makes it happen with unsterilized tools, and makes it happen in ways that will leave people permanently scarred, mentally and physically.”

State Senate President Khris Kapenga (R-Delafied) released a statement after gaveling the chamber in and out Wednesday.

The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to issue their opinion yet the Governor called a Special Session. This is nothing more than a calculated campaign move & the exact reason why the Legislature isn’t in session during campaign season. He’s not fooling anyone with this political stunt

— Sen. Chris Kapenga (@SenatorKapenga) June 22, 2022

“The United States Supreme Court has yet to issue their opinion, yet the Governor called a Special Session. This is nothing more than a calculated campaign move and the exact reason why the Legislature isn’t in session during campaign season. He’s not fooling anyone with this disingenuous political stunt.”

Filed Under: News, Politics / Govt, Top Story

Planned Parenthood will begin referring abortions out-of-state

June 20, 2022 By Bob Hague

Abortion will soon be a thing of the past with the borders of Wisconsin. Beginning on Saturday, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will direct patients to out-of-state facilities for abortions, or work with them to find alternative care.

The organization has stopped scheduling abortions past in anticipation of a U-S Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe versus Wade, which could come as soon as next Monday.

A law passed in Wisconsin in 1849 criminalizes abortion, so providers would have immediately suspend those services the same day the high court makes its decision. For now, there are just four health care providers which offer abortions in Wisconsin.

Filed Under: Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt

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