by Raymond Neupert | Mar 3, 2022
The State Supreme Court has sided with Governor Tony Evers on new legislative districting maps. In a 4 to 3 decision on Thursday, State Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn sided with the court’s liberal justices in picking maps supplied by Governor Tony Evers....
by Raymond Neupert | Mar 1, 2022
A report on the 2020 Presidential election by former State Supreme Court Justice Mike Gableman seems to be a rehash of multiple complaints about the election by conservatives. Gableman claims there are too many questions surrounding the vote. “At this point I...
by Raymond Neupert | Feb 1, 2022
The Wisconsin Elections Commission will not be changing its guidance on how clerks handle mistakes on absentee ballots. That’s after a Republican-led attempt to force clerks to contact voters before fixing simple errors failed to pass. Commission Chair Ann...
by Raymond Neupert | Jan 10, 2022
The head of the Republican-led legislative rules committee is demanding that the state elections board issue rules on drop boxes and absentee ballots. The joint committee for review of administrative rules voted on party lines on Monday to order the Wisconsin...
by Raymond Neupert | Jan 6, 2022
Senator Tammy Baldwin says enough is enough, and that attacks on elections by Republicans need to stop. She says that an audit from Wisconsin Republicans is just part of a nationwide effort to make it harder to vote in America. “Gableman’s audit, which was...
by Raymond Neupert | Dec 20, 2021
State Assembly Democrats have picked a new leader. Racine Representative Greta Neubauer will now lead the caucus. Neubauer says Democrats will need to continue to hold to their ideals heading into the next elections. “We are here because we believe the...
by Raymond Neupert | Dec 15, 2021
Governor Tony Evers and Legislative Republicans are sparring over a new set of redistricting maps. After the State Supreme Court ruled that they want to see maps with the ‘least amount of change’ in the upcoming fight over redistricting, Governor Tony...
by Bob Hague | Dec 10, 2021
Amid the latest surge in new cases and hospitalizations, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers wants state lawmakers to urge their constituents to get vaccinated against COVDID-19. Some have done so, others have not. “They should be encouraging local people to get...
by Raymond Neupert | Nov 15, 2021
Democrats in the Wisconsin Legislature are introducing a set of bills to deal with climate change in Wisconsin. Representative Greta Neubauer says the package of 22 bills will form a framework to build on to protect Wisconsin from future climate disasters. “This...
by Raymond Neupert | Nov 4, 2021
The Department of Natural Resources is now taking public comment on a proposed rule to regulate PFAS and other forever chemicals. That includes what has to be done to dispose of the chemicals, and how people who use fire-fighting foam have to respond to spills. At a...
by Bob Hague | Nov 4, 2021
New legislative and congressional district maps are ready for a vote in the full state Senate next week. Senator Kelda Roys (D-Madison) was a “no” in Thursday’s committee vote “The maps before us are based upon the worst gerrymander in the nation, by many accounts,”...
by Raymond Neupert | Nov 1, 2021
The head of the State Senate elections committee says she doesn’t agree with a claim that the Wisconsin elections commission committed a crime in Racine County. State Senator Kathleen Bernier tells Capital City Sunday that she does think the elections commission...
by Raymond Neupert | Oct 20, 2021
Republicans in the State Senate have passed a package of abortion restrictions on party-line votes. Among those bills are requirements for doctors to offer so-called abortion reversal treatments, a measure to prevent abortion based on a fetus’s race, gender or...
by Raymond Neupert | Oct 11, 2021
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos will have to turn over documents related to his investigation of the 2020 presidential election. That’s after an open records request from Washington DC-based watchdog group American Oversight. Spokesperson Melanie Sloan says...
by Raymond Neupert | Sep 29, 2021
A Republican-authored bill that would require doctors to perform life-saving care on babies who survive late-term abortions has passed the State Senate. Republican Senator Roger Roth says the bill ensures care for all children. “Many across the aisle talk about...
by Raymond Neupert | Sep 29, 2021
Assembly Republicans brought a number of bills related to anti-racism education to the floor on Tuesday. One of the bills requires that districts be more transparent about what they’re teaching their students. Republican Representative Elijah Behnke says...
by Raymond Neupert | Sep 17, 2021
A Republican lawmaker from Green Bay is looking to move the state elections commission to Wausau. Representative David Steffen says that the days of keeping offices in Madison for the sake of being in Madison are over. “It made sense 173 years ago to have...
by Bob Hague | Aug 10, 2021
At the Capitol in Madison on Tuesday, Democratic Governor Tony Evers vetoed six Republican bills which were crafted to restrict Wisconsin election laws. “At the end of the day, these bills add unnecessary and damaging hurdles, for Wisconsinites to participate in...
by Raymond Neupert | Jul 8, 2021
Wisconsin families should be seeing an average income tax cut of 800 dollars under a new state budget signed today by Governor Tony Evers. Evers says he’s used his veto powers to target those tax cuts to families across the state. “I’m newly...
by Raymond Neupert | Jun 17, 2021
Republicans in the state Assembly have passed a pair of bills that restrict how trans women can take part in high school and college sports. The bill’s author, Republican Barb Dietrich, says the bill would create a separate but equal co-ed branch of youth sports...
