Posts Tagged ‘Wisconsin’
WI: State Troopers search for Missing Democrat Senators
Last Updated on Monday, 28 February 2011 02:02 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 24 February 2011 12:59
From the Associated Press:
Wisconsin state troopers were dispatched Thursday to try to find at least one of the 14 Senate Democrats who have been on the run for eight days to delay a vote on Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to strip collective bargaining rights from nearly all public employees.
Meanwhile, the state Assembly appeared close to voting on the union rights bill after two days of filibustering the measure with a blizzard of amendments. Democrats reached an early morning deal after 43 hours of debate to limit the number of remaining amendments and time spent on each.
Troopers went to multiple homes Thursday morning hoping to find at least one of the 14 Democrats, some of whom were rumored to have made short trips home to pick up clothes and other necessities before again fleeing the state. But they came up empty handed, Senate Sergeant at Arms Ted Blazel said.
“Every night we hear about some that are coming back home,” said Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, who hoped sending the move to send the troopers would pressure Democrats to return.
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WI: Assembly Democrats Filibuster to delay budget repair bill
Last Updated on Monday, 28 February 2011 01:58 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 23 February 2011 02:52
From WFRV-TV:
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald says he would like to take a vote by the end of Wednesday on a bill to remove collective bargaining rights from public employees.
Fitzgerald says he is talking with Democrats about how to manage the nearly 200 amendments they are offering to the bill.
Debate began around noon on Tuesday and has lasted all night.
His comments came during the 20th hour of debate. He says he hopes the vote can happen later Wednesday night.
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RSLC Invests in Wisconsin
Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 October 2010 01:09 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 19 October 2010 01:09
From Wisconsin State Journal:
A national group working to elect Republicans to state government positions plans to pump $1 million into Wisconsin’s legislative races.
The Republican State Leadership Committee works to elect GOP candidates to attorney general, lieutenant governor, secretary of state and legislative posts. Committee spokesman Adam Temple says the group will put $1 million into television ads for Wisconsin’s legislative races. He says the group already has bought air time for ads against state Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker, a Weston Democrat.
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WI: AG Candidates Agree to Second Debate
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 10:30 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 23 September 2010 01:11
From channel3000.com:
The candidates for Wisconsin attorney general have agreed to a second debate.
Representatives for J.B. Van Hollen and Scott Hassett’s campaigns said the candidates have agreed to a debate on Oct. 8 at Wisconsin Public Television’s Madison studios.
The debate will be the second in as many days for Van Hollen and Hassett. They’ve also agreed to appear at Marquette University on Oct. 7.
The Oct. 7 debate will be part of “On the Issues with Mike Gousha,” a series of speaker appearances at Marquette University’s law school hosted by WISN-TV’s Mike Gousha.
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WI: Democrat AG Candidate doesn’t have enough credits to Practice Law
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 10:39 Written by rslcpol Monday, 20 September 2010 11:37
From GreenbayPressGazette.com:
The state board that evaluates attorneys says Democratic attorney general candidate Scott Hassett doesn’t have enough credits to practice law.
WKOW-TV in Madison reports Hassett, a licensed attorney, went inactive from mid-2004 through mid-2009. Hassett tells the station he was too busy as Department of Natural Resources secretary to keep up the continuing education credits to remain active.
Hassett quit as secretary in 2007 and later sought to regain active status.
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WI: Republicans pick Lt. Governor Candidate
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 10:42 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 15 September 2010 01:24
From Channel3000.com:
The candidates for lieutenant governor took a much different route to their party nomination than the people at the top of the ticket.
Rebecca Kleefisch, of Oconomowoc, is a former anchor for WISN-TV in Milwaukee who won a five-way GOP primary.
Assembly Majority Leader Tom Nelson, of Kaukauna, won a four-way Democratic primary.
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WI: After running “low profile” campaign, Democrat AG Challenger wants to debate
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 10:49 Written by rslcpol Friday, 10 September 2010 01:11
From Coulee News:
Van Hollen’s campaign issued a statement saying “there certainly will be a debate but not because Scott Hassett is desperate.” It did not elaborate.
Hassett and Van Hollen will face each other in the November general election. Hassett has run a low-profile campaign so far, though. Campaign finance reports released on Tuesday show he’s trailing Van Hollen in campaign cash. Van Hollen had nearly $358,000 on hand as of Aug. 30. Hassett had about $127,000.
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WI: Candidates for Lt. Governor Want Position to have more Power
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 10:50 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 9 September 2010 02:07
From WQOW.com:
Nine candidates are in the running for one job at the state capitol, a job that raises a key question: voters wonder what power that job actually has. We’re talking about the race for lieutenant governor.
With the primary less than a week away, the race for lieutenant governor is shaping up to be a tight one.
Two Democratic candidates made stops in Eau Claire on Wednesday. Henry Sanders visited the UW-Eau Claire campus, to find out what issues are on the minds of younger voters. “No matter where I am in the state of Wisconsin people are concerned about jobs,” said Sanders. “We have got to get people educated and get them into the workforce. Especially if we want to focus of the future of jobs like manufacturing jobs, new manufacturing jobs like green jobs and clean tech jobs.”
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WI: Republican AG Van Hollen wants to Fight more Fraudsters
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 10:51 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 9 September 2010 01:18
From Wisconsin Radio Network:
Wisconsin’s top cop has a good idea for fighting fraud within public assistance programs. Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen says his department’s Medicaid Fraud Control and Elder Abuse Unit is proven to be successful with recovering money, investigating, and prosecuting the bad guys.
Van Hollen says, in just the last four years, they’ve collected a lot of taxpayer money that was intended for Medicaid recipients. “Our Medicaid Fraud Unit has recovered approximately $35-million in Medicaid fraud reimbursements. And we have orders, or approvals or judgments for approximately $26-million more.”
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Wisconsin offers Bounty Like No Other
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:45 Written by rslcpol Monday, 2 August 2010 01:27
From JSOnline:
If this is a year of opportunity for victory-starved Republicans, no state in the country offers more bounty than Wisconsin, where an entire Democratic power structure is in peril this fall.
Wisconsin is one of two states in the United States where Republicans have a plausible chance to take away from Democrats a governorship, both chambers of the Legislature, a U.S. Senate seat and one or more House seats. (Colorado is the other).
“There’s nothing that’s not on the table,” says state GOP chair Reince Priebus. “My expectation is this is going to be the biggest Republican year in the history of Wisconsin.”
That is far from guaranteed, of course. The odds of winning all those contests are much longer than winning any of them individually.
But two factors have created at least the possibility of a once-in-a-generation shift in the balance of partisan power in Wisconsin.
The first and most important is a political climate of public discontent, economic pessimism and sagging approval ratings for Congress and Democratic President Barack Obama.
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