February 9, 2015
A GOP legislator who also is a bank officer has introduced a bill that would loosen regulations that govern the way state-chartered banks have to handle variable rate loans.
February 6, 2015
Republican Governor Scott Walker says he wants to reduce state regulation of for-profit colleges and schools, which have contributed nearly $20,000 to his campaign since 2009.
February 6, 2015
The publicly funded University of Wisconsin System would be able to keep the public in the dark about research conducted on its campuses under a proposal included in Republican Governor Scott Walker’s 2015-17 state budget.
February 5, 2015
Wealthy individuals throughout the country who support an expansion of school vouchers in Wisconsin have contributed nearly $1.3 million since 2009 to Republican Governor Scott Walker and dropped another $1.1 million to help him win his contentious 2012 recall election.
February 4, 2015
Contributors from outside Wisconsin continued in 2014 to give Republican Governor Scott Walker more campaign cash than state residents, a trend that began in 2012, according to a Democracy Campaign preliminary review.
February 3, 2015
Executives from three of the four construction companies that won a bid for a $197 million state office building project have contributed more than $58,000 to Republican Governor Scott Walker’s campaign.
February 3, 2015
Republican Governor Scott Walker raised and spent three times more money in his 2014 reelection contest than in his last regular 2010 election for governor.
February 2, 2015
A legislative proposal to allow liquor stores and other alcohol retailers to give away free liquor samples to shoppers has the backing of the alcohol industry and grocers, which have contributed nearly $1.9 million to candidates for statewide office and the legislature since 2011.
January 30, 2015
A Republican Senate leader is renewing his call to begin consideration of a “right-to-work” law, which prevents private-sector workers from being required to join a union or pay dues as a condition of employment.
January 29, 2015
A legislative proposal that deregulates raffles held by charitable, religious and other groups in Wisconsin has some curious backers – pro-gun and hunter groups whose supporters and members have also contributed about $10,000 to the bill’s sponsors and cosponsors.
Posted: January 28, 2015
Updated: February 5, 2015
A Republican lawmaker intends to introduce legislation that would repeal Wisconsin’s state and local prevailing wage laws. These laws require that companies with state contracts pay their workers on those contracts a wage equal to what the majority of workers in that industry earn in that area.
January 28, 2015
An influential Milwaukee business group that strongly supports a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks has contributed about $1.3 million to an electioneering group that helped Republican Governor Scott Walker win three elections to remain in office.
January 27, 2015
Republican Governor Scott Walker, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, has formed a new 527 fundraising group.
January 27, 2015
Democratic legislators say they want to ban sales of powdered alcohol and add electronic cigarettes and other vapor smoking devices to the state smoking ban.
January 26, 2015
The Department of Natural Resources wants to look at the environmental, health and economic effects of the growing frac sand industry in Wisconsin amid rumblings that Republican legislators may again try to remove local control over frac sand facilities.
January 22, 2015
A new agreement announced Wednesday between the state of Wisconsin and a tribe that wants to build an $800 million casino in Kenosha comes less than a month before Republican Governor Scott Walker must render a final decision on the project.
Posted: January 21, 2015
Updated: February 16, 2015
January 21, 2015
Executives of a Canadian energy distributor that wants to triple the amount of crude oil it transports through Wisconsin have contributed $1,475 since 2007 to candidates for statewide office and the legislature, including $950 to Republican Governor Scott Walker.
January 20, 2015
Jan. 21 is the fifth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United vs. FEC, which said that corporations, unions and other associations could give unlimited amounts of money to try to elect candidates of their choice so long as they don’t coordinate their activities with their chosen candidates.
January 20, 2015
Three electioneering groups that frequently sponsored negative broadcast ads and mailings during the state’s fall elections accepted more than $1 million each in 2014 from Wisconsin contributors, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.
January 14, 2015
The Government Accountability Board was created in 2007 with nearly unanimous, bipartisan legislative support to enforce the state’s elections, campaign finance, ethics and lobbying laws. It has done so in a
January 13, 2015
Republican Governor Scott Walker and two GOP Senate and Assembly leaders say it’s unlikely they’ll approve a gas tax hike to pay for expensive road projects after powerful special interests that have contributed $5.4 million to their campaigns opposed it.
January 12, 2015
A legislative proposal that appears to give school privatization interests a greater say over public and private school accountability standards was introduced by Assembly Republicans only a couple of months after pro-school voucher interests spent more than $850,000 to help elect Republican legislative candidates in the 2014 fall elections.
January 9, 2015
Authors of a proposed constitutional amendment to change the way the chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is chosen have accepted nearly $780,000 from special interests since they’ve been in office.
Posted: January 8, 2015
Updated: October 22, 2015
There has been a dramatic change in who funds the Democratic Party of Wisconsin and the Republican Party of Wisconsin.