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August 4, 2015
More than seven dozen individuals and corporations made contributions of $50,000 or more to two federal committees that were created to support Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s 2016 presidential bid, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.
July 30, 2015
A Republican lawmaker is seeking legislative support for a bill that would prohibit the personal possession, sale or breeding of dangerous, exotic animals in Wisconsin.
July 29, 2015
Four bills that would increase local control and transparency in the siting and operation of frac sand mines are opposed by trade groups that represent more than a dozen powerful special interests that have spent millions of dollars to elect majority Republican lawmakers.
July 28, 2015
Counties are now prohibited from adopting zoning rules stricter than state law when it comes to what shoreline property owners can do with their property.
July 24, 2015
On July 14, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign filed a complaint with the Government Accountability Board alleging many inaccuracies in the amended report by Friends of Scott Walker for the period between July 29, 2014, and Oct. 20, 2014, in his race for reelection as governor. Many donors in the report on the GAB’s website had employer identification that was inaccurate.
July 23, 2015
Majority Republican legislators and the governor used the state budget to loosen state regulation of lead paint.
July 22, 2015
Almost $9 out of every $10 in individual contributions that Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s state campaign committee raised during the first half of 2015 came from outside the state, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.
July 21, 2015
Two federal committees created earlier this to support Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s presidential candidacy have raised more than $26 million in the first half of 2015.
July 21, 2015
The state fundraising committee Republican Gov. Scott Walker uses to raise money to run for governor reported raising $5.9 million and spending about $5.7 million during the first six months of 2015.
July 20, 2015
Gov. Scott Walker added his voice to the unseemly Republican assault on the Government Accountability Board on Monday.
July 17, 2015
Two provisions in the new state budget approved by Republican Gov. Scott Walker help one company: Enbridge Energy. They prevent local governments from imposing added insurance requirements on interstate pipeline operators that transport hazardous material, and make it easier to take private property for such projects.
July 16, 2015
The four justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court who just dismissed the John Doe investigation concerning alleged coordination between Scott Walker and so-called outside groups were aided enormously by some of the very groups that were party to the John Doe case.
July 16, 2015
The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign denounced the ruling by the biased Wisconsin State Supreme Court to close down the John Doe II investigation into alleged coordination between Scott Walker and so-called outside groups.
July 15, 2015
The budget signed by Gov. Walker on Sunday contains two changes that make Wisconsin’s civil service less independent and more susceptible to patronage.
Posted: July 14, 2015
Updated: July 23, 2015
Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign filed a campaign finance report last month that appeared to be riddled with erroneous information about hundreds of contributions he received in the homestretch of his 2014 reelection contest, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found. (Click here to download a copy of the report as a zip file.)
July 13, 2015
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal, in an opinion piece, tried to smear Kevin Kennedy, the executive director of Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board.
July 6, 2015
The Republican leaders in the Wisconsin legislature tried to pull a fast one last week, but they didn’t get away with it.
July 6, 2015
A proposal to expand the products and services offered by payday lenders, who have contributed more than $161,000 to majority GOP legislators in recent years, has been tucked into the proposed 2015-17 state budget.
July 3, 2015
In a brazen attempt to shield themselves from Wisconsin’s open records laws, Republican legislators on the Joint Finance Committee snuck some sweeping provisions into their omnibus motion that would deny the people of Wisconsin from knowing just about anything about how the legislature functions—or who is wielding influence behind closed doors.
July 2, 2015
Republican Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill into law that relaxes regulations on state-chartered banks.
June 30, 2015
Business, construction, municipal utilities, and a conservative ideological group that spent more than $2.8 million in recent years to help elect GOP legislators are the influential special interests trying to change Wisconsin’s prevailing wage laws.
June 29, 2015
Today’s decision on the Arizona redistricting case is cause for celebration.
June 26, 2015
Republican Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill into law that allows a developer who has contributed more than $21,000 to his campaign and the state Republican Party to receive public grants or loans to build high-end golf courses.
June 24, 2015
Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who has benefited from $3.5 million in outside electioneering support and campaign contributions from the National Rifle Association (NRA), signed new laws Wednesday that loosen rules for buying and carrying guns in Wisconsin.
June 23, 2015
Owners and executives from 10 of 24 companies that received more than $124 million in state grants, tax credits and loans without a formal review by the Walker administration contributed more than $104,000 to Republican Gov. Scott Walker since January 2010.