Category: Politics
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Koch, Uihleins, Tribes, Kwik Trip owners spend heavily in northern Wisconsin special election campaign for Congress
Koch Industries, Native American tribes and the owners of Kwik Trip and Uline are big donors and spenders in the special election race for Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District next week.
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The rock ‘n’ roll congressman priest from Wisconsin who was benched by the pope
A largely-forgotten public figure today, Cornell is a reminder — particularly relevant in the current toxic, dysfunctional political climate — that principled service and congeniality have value.
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Record cash raised in SW Wisconsin State Senate race for Howard Marklein’s seat
Big name spenders include DeVos, Steyer, Koch, Jobs in rural district
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Six members of Wisconsin State Assembly have declared personal bankruptcy
Thousands of dollars in debts to a Las Vegas resort and casino. Hundreds of thousands in back taxes owed to the state of Wisconsin. And huge credit card debt.
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No college degree fraud found in Wisconsin State Legislature …but we couldn’t check everybody
By Peter Cameron, THE BADGER PROJECT Lying about receiving a degree you never earned is pretty easy. For the most part, so is verifying it. In a 2015 survey of employers by the company CareerBuilder, 28 percent reported having caught a job seeker lying about an academic degree on their resume. Some politicians aren’t above exaggerating or outright lying about earning academic…
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Wisconsin state Rep. Kooyenga pleaded no contest in 2000 to punching teen
Dale Kooyenga tackled and punched a 17-year-old boy in 2000 during a dispute outside a summer party in Sheboygan. Now a 39-year-old Republican state representative from Brookfield, Kooyenga was 21 at the time police filed a criminal charge of disorderly conduct against him.
