November 13, 2015
Two GOP bills that would blindfold the public to special interest influence on legislative and statewide elections, and dismantle Wisconsin’s nationally recognized campaign finance and ethics watchdog are slated for final legislative approval on Monday.
November 13, 2015
November 12, 2015
Democratic and Republican lawmakers are circulating legislative proposals that would increase railroad safety for transporting crude oil, chemicals and other hazardous materials after two train derailments in Wisconsin last weekend.
November 10, 2015
The National Rifle Association and state gun and hunting groups are backing GOP legislative proposals that would make it a crime to photograph or videotape hunters on public land in Wisconsin.
November 7, 2015
It happened in the dark of night. Almost no one was around. But just about at midnight on Nov. 6, the Republican-dominated Wisconsin State Senate struck at the heart of open and clean government in Wisconsin, dealing it a mortal blow.
November 4, 2015
Dear Fellow Wisconsinites,
Democracy and clean government in Wisconsin are on the chopping block on Friday when the state Senate convenes in an extraordinary session to take up two bills that could drive a stake through the heart of good government in Wisconsin. The bills have already passed in the Assembly.
November 6, 2015
Don’t fall for the so-called “compromise bills” that the Wisconsin State Senate will be voting on today.
November 4, 2015
Trade associations (listed below) that represent more than a dozen powerful special interest groups are pressuring a GOP-controlled tax and spending committee to approve $200 million in borrowing to pay for major road and rehabilitation projects.
November 2, 2015
Dear Fellow Wisconsinites,
Democracy and clean government in Wisconsin are on the chopping block this week.
November 3, 2015
Legislative proposals backed by big business, lawyers, utilities and the insurance industry at the expense of consumers, workers and local control are among the bills the state Assembly is scheduled to act on today.
October 28, 2015
A GOP lawmaker who also owns an insurance company is sponsoring bills backed by the insurance industry that would reduce the liability of dog owners when their pets injure people or damage property.
Posted: October 27, 2015
Updated: November 18, 2015
Here’s some Wisconsin media coverage and commentary about legislative proposals to rewrite state campaign finance laws that blindfold the public about the fundraising and spending by special interest electioneering groups and candidates for legislative and statewide offices:
October 26, 2015
A Republican lawmaker says his bill to cut nearly six dozen state tax auditors is a business friendly move, and the state’s most powerful business group supports the measure.
October 22, 2015
Wealthy business and conservative ideological groups that collectively spend millions of dollars to support Republican legislative and statewide candidates at election time are supporting bills to weaken state campaign finance law and dismember the state’s election and ethics watchdog.
Posted: October 21, 2015
Updated: October 23, 2015
Dear Fellow Wisconsinites,
Today is a crucial day for democracy and clean government in Wisconsin.
October 21, 2015
Shame on Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin!
October 21, 2015
A Republican lawmaker who co-signed a letter asking the attorney general to investigate the state’s campaign finance and elections watchdog for open meetings violations cost the state $15,000 in damages and lawyer’s fees in an open records case.
October 20, 2015
Dear Friend,
I URGE YOU to take a moment and drop what you're doing and send your legislators a message that you won’t sit idly by and let Scott Walker and Speaker Vos strangle good government in Wisconsin.
October 20, 2015
(Letter of support to the Government Accountability Board under attack by GOP legislators.)
October 19, 2015
Health insurers, hospitals and doctors are supporting bipartisan bills to give GOP lawmakers final say over changes to the state employee group health and life insurance programs.
October 16, 2015
Statement by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign condemning a legislative committee’s action Thursday to further weaken campaign finance regulation and disclosure by scrapping a longstanding requirement in state law that candidates identify the employer of contributors who give them more than $100 in a calendar year:
October 16, 2015
A Republican bill that allows candidates to coordinate their election activities with secretive dark money groups that don’t have to disclose their fundraising or spending was rewritten to hide even more information about the influence that wealthy special interests have on Wisconsin elections.
October 15, 2015
One of the nation’s largest natural gas and electric utilities and the state’s plumbers unions are backing a bill that would effectively repeal Wisconsin’s 32-year-old ban on nuclear power plant construction.
October 14, 2015
Wisconsin’s public universities and technical colleges would no longer be able to prohibit people from carrying concealed guns in campus classrooms and buildings under a measure authored by two GOP lawmakers and backed by some pro-gun advocates.
October 13, 2015
The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign is a nonpartisan political watchdog that tracks money in state politics and believes that every citizen’s voice should be heard and every citizen’s vote should be counted. We strongly encourage committee members OPPOSE the two major de-form bills before you today.