Email date: 1/10/08
In this update:
1. Poll shows overwhelming support for judicial election reform
2. Panel’s recommended penalty for Ziegler draws strong reaction
3. Public fed up with politics as usual
4. The difference between campaign donations and votes
Email date: 1/14/08
With the Legislature scheduled to reconvene a special session on campaign finance reform tomorrow, a new book shows how five Midwestern states with very different political histories and political cultures have something in common: political systems that have grown seriously ill.
Email date: 1/16/08
In this update:
1. Senior citizen groups want action on the issue behind all other issues
2. The homogenization of state politics
3. Legislature specializing in gridlock
4. So much time, so little (intention) to do
Email date: 1/22/08
In this update:
1. Senate committee to take testimony on Clean Elections reform
2. Attorney group chimes in on need for judicial reform
Email date: 1/24/08
In this update:
1. More than a little missing from governor’s "state of state" speech
2. Special session on reform starting to take shape, despite Doyle’s lack of interest
Email date: 2/1/08
In this update:
1. Partisans give big in "nonpartisan" high court race
2. The week in review
3. Gridlock becoming hallmark of modern politics
Email date: 2/6/08
In this update:
1. Wisconsin in thick of things in presidential race
2. In search of a good party
3. WDC tallies Supreme Court donors
4. Troha case is conspiracy that keeps on giving
Email date: 2/8/08
The state Senate is set to start acting on campaign finance reform as a Senate committee will hold a public hearing next Tuesday, February 12 on special session legislation.
Email date: 2/12/08
In this update:
1. Senate Committee urged at public hearing to act swiftly on reform
2. Impartial Justice bill clears procedural hurdle, ready for vote in Senate
Email date: 2/13/08
In this update:
1. Money trail exposes myth of nonpartisan judicial elections
2. Supreme Court candidates soon to become bystanders?
3. Casino corruption investigation snags top local official