Tag: Wisconsin state politics
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With public funding for stadium secured, five Brewers executives sent maximum donations to top Republican legislator
The executives made the donations two weeks after a huge funding bill to renovate the team’s stadium passed out of the legislature.
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WMC, the Kochs, the Brewers, Kwik Trip: The top lobbiers in Wisconsin last year
WMC, the Koch network, the Brewers and Kwik Trip are just some of the organizations on the list.
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‘Lobbying is effective’ – Brewers spent $1.5 mil pressing legislature, got $366 mil
The ball club negotiated a deal for the state to pay hundreds of millions for renovations to American Family Field in exchange for staying in Milwaukee through 2050.
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Even with more competitive maps, Dems unlikely to win full control of state government in 2024, experts say. With one exception.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will probably enact more competitive legislative maps soon. But only one set of districts being considered might allow Democrats to win a legislative majority if they win a majority of the vote.
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Final-5 Voting has bipartisan support. But status quo thinking is entrenched. Here are the arguments on both sides.
Across the country, Final-Five Voting – a system that bans partisan primary elections and voters use rank their preferred candidates in general elections – are gaining traction. But opposition, largely from the hard right, is significant.
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A voting change in Alaska brought more choice and civility, experts say. A bill in Wisconsin would launch it here.
Experts say Alaska’s new voting system made elections more civilized and representative. A bipartisan bill in Wisconsin would create a similar system. It’s called Final Five Voting.
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Evers signs bipartisan bill requiring financial literacy in Wisconsin schools
The bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan support despite criticisms that the mandate is unfunded. It requires students learn about things like money management, investing, and debt.
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Amendment to end corporate personhood, reduce money in politics, faces steep climb in Wisconsin and nationally
The U.S. Constitution has been amended 27 times since its founding, but not since 1992. Wisconsin United to Amend hopes to change that.
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Every House Republican, except one from Wisconsin, voted Yea for new Speaker
Rep. Derrick Van Orden of western Wisconsin did not vote, as he is in Israel on a fact-finding trip.
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Wisconsin’s state legislative maps may get more competitive. The congressional districts are likely to remain GOP-friendly.
Democrats gerrymander themselves by clustering in the state’s two largest cities, while Republicans have gotten stronger in wide swaths of rural areas.
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Rebecca Bradley criticized a colleague for not recusing from a case involving a donor. Six years ago, she helped kill a measure requiring those recusals.
A group of retired judges asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to enact the rule. Bradley and the rest of the court’s then-conservative majority rejected it on First Amendment grounds.
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‘Uncharted territory’ – Could the Wisconsin GOP protect their gerrymander by impeaching Protasiewicz?
Officials can only be impeached for corruption or crime. Does a Wisconsin Supreme Court’s justice comments about the state’s political districts rise to that level?
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The top lobbiers in Wisconsin during a budget season with a historic surplus
Lobbyists must report the dollars spent communicating with members of the Wisconsin State Legislature. Here’s that report for the first half of 2023, when legislators were crafting the state’s 2-year budget.
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The Brewers want millions in public funds for stadium renovations. In the first half of 2023, the team spent nearly $600k lobbying to make their case.
In dollars spent, the ballclub was the state’s top lobbying organization in the first six months of 2023.
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Marathon County state legislator ticketed for illegal burning that ignited small brush fire
The state DNR ticketed state Sen. Cory Tomczyk in May for setting fire to a debris pile on his Mosinee property that led to the larger blaze, according to the report.
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Green Bay legislator was sued at least four times for outstanding student loan debt
State Sen. Eric Wimberger, who graduated from Marquette Law School in 2005, was sued multiple times by the National Collegiate Student Loan Trust.
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Green Bay state legislator owes $25k in back taxes on lake cabin
State. Sen. Eric Wimberger, an attorney and Republican, said his family cabin fell into delinquency due to his recently-deceased father’s mental decline.
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The Badger Project wins gold again at Milwaukee Press Club journalism awards
Managing editor Peter Cameron has won first prize for an investigative story on law enforcement for the second year in a row.