The matriarch of the Chicago Cubs-owning family, an heir to the Schlitz Beer fortune, and the richest self-made woman in the U.S.
MILLION DOLLAR CHECKS: Court decisions, law change divert rivers of campaign cash from ultrarich donors to political candidates in Wisconsin
Court decisions, law change create rivers of cash from ultrarich donors to candidates, as long as they flow through the party
After Loosening of Campaign Finance Laws, Cash Poured into 2018 Race for NW Wisconsin State Senate Seat
Democrat incumbent survived huge wave of independent spending
SIX OUT OF SEVEN: Wisconsin Supreme Court has highest percentage of high court female justices in the country
Historic all-woman bench possible if elections next week and next year break that way
Wisconsin state Rep. Dale Kooyenga of Brookfield pleaded no contest in 2000 to punching minor
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.