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September 22, 2015
A coalition of groups came together this morning in front of the Madison City-County Building to honor National Voter Registration Day and to urge every citizen to get registered. A few speakers also decried the obstacles to registering and to voting that the Republican leaders in the State Capitol have erected.
September 22, 2015
Executives from Kohl’s Department Stores contributed about $6,200 to Republican Gov. Scott Walker since the beginning of 2012. The company was awarded a $62.5 million package of state tax credits in 2012 to create jobs and build a headquarters that haven’t materialized.
September 21, 2015
The state plans to sell several hundred feet of premium frontage on a northern Wisconsin lake to an Illinois businesswoman and her husband who have contributed more than $3.3 million to Wisconsin legislative and statewide candidates and Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign for president.
September 21, 2015
Tuesday is National Voter Registration Day, and to honor it, a coalition of groups has come together to stress how important it is to get the necessary information out to the general public on how to register so that Wisconsin can have the highest voter turnout in the country.
September 17, 2015
State Appeals Court Judge Rebecca Bradley, whose past judicial campaign drew support from Republican Party committees and prominent GOP campaign contributors, plans to run for next spring’s open seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
September 17, 2015
Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s latest state campaign finance report shows he received contributions from a California man who appears to have died before the contributions were made.
September 16, 2015
An Eau Claire lawyer contributed $4,000 to Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign at around the same times he was appointed by the governor to be a county district attorney in 2012 and a circuit judge this summer.
Posted: September 15, 2015
Updated: September 16, 2015
Agricultural interests, which contributed $2.6 million to Republican Gov. Scott Walker and current legislators in recent years, support a legislative proposal that would reduce state oversight of controversial high-capacity wells.
September 10, 2015
Three Republicans in the state legislature have redrafted a bill that would give enormous power to the Republican leadership over major state agencies.
September 8, 2015
The special interests behind school vouchers in Wisconsin have gotten a mammoth return on their electioneering and lobbying investments.
September 2, 2015
Ten political action committees (PACs) controlled by labor unions that represent police, firefighters, plumbers, carpenters and construction workers contributed about $64,000 during the first six months of 2015 to Republican campaign committees.
September 1, 2015
A Menomonee Falls company has upped its job creation efforts not in Wisconsin but in Mexico to about 340 since it was awarded about $369,000 in state tax credits to create jobs and train workers here.
August 27, 2015
Expensive lobbyists are roaming the halls of the Wisconsin Capitol. Some 47 organizations spent at least $1,000 an hour lobbying legislators in Madison in the first six months of this year, based on data supplied by the Government Accountability Board in its six-month lobbying expenditure report and analyzed by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.
August 26, 2015
Many Democrats who supported the deal to keep the Bucks in Milwaukee have benefited from campaign contributions from special interests behind it.
August 24, 2015
Special interest political action committees (PACs) contributed nearly $790,000 during the first six months of 2015, and most of it went to Republican Gov. Scott Walker and legislators who were considering a 2015-17 state budget loaded with policy and spending items lobbied on by many of those interests.
August 20, 2015
Since GOP presidential candidate Scott Walker says he would repeal the federal Affordable Care Act, if elected president next year, it is interesting to note the financial support he received from the health insurance industry and health maintenance organizations (HMOs). They contributed about $360,000 between January 2010 and December 2014 to Walker’s three successful state campaigns for governor.
August 19, 2015
On August 18, Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit by 12 plaintiffs who alleged that the Republican redistricting plan of 2012 violated their First Amendment rights to freely associate and their Fourteenth Amendment rights to equal protection under the law.
August 18, 2015
Spending by candidates for governor and final ballot candidates for lieutenant governor increased about 680 percent in 20 years, from $6.9 million in 1994 to a record $53.7 million in 2014, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review shows.
August 17, 2015
Wisconsin legislative and statewide officeholders collectively raised most of their campaign cash during the first six months of 2015 from individuals outside Wisconsin rather than from constituents who can actually vote for them, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review shows.
August 14, 2015
A legislative proposal that would ban the sale and use of tissue, organs and other body parts from aborted fetuses for research has drawn support from anti-abortion, religious and conservative groups and opposition from health professionals, academics and the biotechnology sector.
August 13, 2015
A new study by the Sunlight Foundation gives Wisconsin an “A” in transparency about lobbying.
August 13, 2015
Republican legislators raised about one-third more per capita than Democratic lawmakers during the first six months of 2015 and had 75 percent more money in their campaign accounts as of June 30, according to a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review of recently filed campaign finance reports.
August 11, 2015
A federal committee formed by GOP presidential candidate Scott Walker spent a third of a million dollars between April and June of 2015 on air travel with a suburban Milwaukee company whose owners contributed more than $77,000 in recent years to Walker’s campaigns for governor.
August 10, 2015
Republican and Democratic legislative leaders raised nearly $1 million from special interests during the first six months of 2015, the same time the legislature was considering the 2015-17 state budget.
August 5, 2015
Attorney General Brad Schimel says Wisconsin will join a multi-state lawsuit against tougher federal air pollution standards, which are opposed by special interests that spent an estimated $2.2 million last fall to help elect him.