Email date: 11/27/07

In this update:
1. Reform network releases responses to presidential questionnaire
2. State’s voter registration system still not working
3. Making sense of electronic campaign finance data

Email date: 11/16/07

In this update:
1. St. Norbert/WPR poll shows government ethics a top concern
2. Editorials take aim at money behind vote on cable TV bill
3. Constitutional amendment limiting veto authority advances

Email date: 11/20/07

In this update:
1. Ziegler in court . . . not to judge cases, but to defend herself
2. Lawmakers caught double dipping
3. Poll shows Legislature’s approval rating dropping

Email date: 11/28/07

In this update:
1. New ethics cloud drifts over Ziegler
2. State audit critical of voter registration system
3. Governor, legislators get pay increase

Email date: 11/30/07

Governor Jim Doyle today called a special session of the Legislature for December 11 to act on campaign finance reform.

Email date: 12/3/07

In this update:
1. Ohio State study warns of problems with voter registration system
2. Excuse making starts as special session on reform approaches

Email date: 12/5/07

In this update:
1. The right way for special session on reform to proceed
2. Anti-reform message gets stale
3. National poll says ethics issue may decide congressional elections

Email date: 12/11/07

In this update:
1. Entire high court endorses publicly financed Supreme Court races
2. Hearings scheduled on reform bills in Assembly committee

Email date: 12/12/07

In this update:
1. Special session formally begins, but action will wait until January
2. Frankenstein to face voters; AT&T’s cable bill goes to governor’s desk
3. Another national group weighs in on condition of Wisconsin’s campaign finance system
4. FCC chairman ignoring public testimony, plowing ahead with media ownership rewrite

Email date: 12/17/07

In this update:
1. Key vote looms on media consolidation
2. Yet another poll shows public disgust with state politicians