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Chiropractors Split on Proposal to Let Them Prescribe Painkillers
June 2, 2016
Chiropractors, who contributed $688,000 to legislative and statewide candidates since January 2011, are split on a legislative proposal that would allow them to prescribe painkillers.
May 26, 2016
A billionaire businessman who set consecutive records for the highest penalties ever paid for environmental violations in Wisconsin has been nominated for an environmental award from the state’s largest business group.
May 25, 2016
Two aides to Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald gave dubious and unintentionally damning testimony over the last two days in the federal court case over the drawing of electoral maps in Wisconsin.
May 25, 2016
Wealthy supporters of Republican Gov. Scott Walker who have contributed more than $10.1 million to support his campaigns for governor or president are on a Republican Party committee created to help likely GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.
May 19, 2016
Enforcement against polluters in Wisconsin fell to a 30-year low in 2015. The cause: Looser environmental standards and fewer resources for inspections and enforcement, according to the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation.
May 18, 2016
The loosely-regulated payday lending industry preys on Wisconsin consumers and drains millions of dollars from the state’s economy, according to a new report by WISPIRG.
Posted: May 16, 2016
Updated: May 17, 2016
A former GOP lawmaker who contributed $10,000 to Republican Gov. Scott Walker has won a state contract to create and administer a new test for Wisconsin elementary and middle school pupils.
Posted: May 13, 2016
Updated: May 20, 2016
Last night, 150 people gathered at the lovely Lussier Family Heritage Center in pastoral Madison to celebrate the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign’s annual gathering.
May 13, 2016
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross and his wife contributed $1,850 in recent years – all to Republican state officials.
May 11, 2016
A legal opinion by Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel that sharply restricts the state from regulating controversial high-capacity wells is being praised by powerful business and agricultural interests that spent more than $2.2 million to elect him in 2014.
May 10, 2016
Republican Gov. Scott Walker has declared an energy emergency at the request of a special interest group that represents segments of the oil and gas industry that have contributed more than $200,000 to him in recent years.
May 9, 2016
The owners of the nation’s most dangerous frac sand mine gave $8,100 to Republican Gov. Scott Walker over the last few years.
May 4, 2016
A new board member at the state’s economic development and jobs creation agency is also a board director for a company that has received millions of dollars in state handouts even though it sent more than 100 Wisconsin jobs overseas.
May 3, 2016
Republican Gov. Scott Walker received $21,000 in campaign contributions from the former chairman of a company after it was approved for $500,000 in state tax credits, but then failed to create promised jobs and eliminated hundreds of existing jobs.
May 2, 2016
The Wisconsin Democratic delegation in Congress today urged the U.S. Department of Justice to consider “bringing a legal challenge” to Wisconsin’s Voter ID law.
April 29, 2016
The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign thanks the courageous district attorneys John Chisholm, Ismael Ozanne, and Larry Nelson for appealing the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision in the John Doe II case to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday.
April 29, 2016
Republican Gov. Scott Walker signed a GOP bill this week that prohibits or restricts community authority in numerous instances involving private land use and development, and prohibits courts from giving deference to the state in cases involving private property disputes.
April 27, 2016
A bill that loosens state regulations on what individuals and businesses can do on their waterfront property and adjacent waterways and wetlands was signed into law by Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
April 26, 2016
The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign issued a report on Tuesday that covers 100 items approved by Republican Gov. Scott Walker and the legislature that have collectively assaulted Wisconsin’s democracy and the common good.
April 25, 2016
Democratic and Republican legislative leaders have given GOP Gov. Scott Walker 12 nominations that he must choose from to fill his four appointments to the new partisan ethics and elections commissions.
Open letter to Wisconsin's congressional delegation requesting an investigation of voter ID in Wisconsin
April 22, 2016
April 21, 2016
Gov. Scott Walker received nearly $36,800 in contributions from employees of Aetna and Humana, and from a Humana political action committee over the last five years. The Walker administration recently gave a nod to the merger of the two giant health insurers.
April 19, 2016
Seven legislative leaders and four partisan campaign committees accounted for 51 percent of the $4 million raised legislatively in 2015, according to an analysis by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. The other 125 members of the State Assembly and State Senate accounted for the other 49 percent.
April 18, 2016
Republican legislators raised nearly twice as much as their Democratic counterparts in 2015 and had nearly three times more cash in the bank at the end of the year, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign analysis found.
April 15, 2016
A GOP bill backed by the real estate and timber industries that reduces public access and increases logging on more than 3 million acres of privately owned forestland in exchange for property tax breaks was signed into law by Republican Gov. Scott Walker.