May 11, 2015

Republican legislators are circulating a proposal that would prohibit a woman from having an abortion at 20 weeks or later in her pregnancy.

May 8, 2015

The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) revised a state permit to allow a railroad, whose employees have given Republican Gov. Scott Walker more than $61,000 in campaign contributions, to expand its lines for controversial crude oil shipments through the city of La Crosse.

May 7, 2015

Dane County would be prohibited from making wastewater, sewage and other water quality decisions under a proposal inserted into the proposed 2015-17 state budget at the request of developers, according to a Republican lawmaker who sponsored the measure.

May 6, 2015

Republican Gov. Scott Walker plans on asking the federal government to delay the implementation of tougher state phosphorous pollution rules because he claims the requirements would be too costly for some Wisconsin industries and cities.

May 5, 2015

Big business and other powerful special interests support a legislative proposal that would require people who seek unemployment insurance benefits to submit to drug tests.

May 4, 2015

Campers who suffer injuries or property damage during their vacation or weekend getaway would have a more difficult time suing private campgrounds under bills introduced by GOP lawmakers and backed by the state’s most influential business group.

An Analysis

May 4, 2015

April 30, 2015

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, April 29, finally woke up to the corrupting role that money can play in our electoral system.

Posted: April 30, 2015
Updated: June 22, 2015

Madison – The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign is launching a new feature on its website, www.wisdc.org. It’s called Influence Peddler of the Month, and it aims to shine a light on the power brokers who work behind the scenes in the Capitol, throwing their weight around and adversely affecting the general public.

April 29, 2015

Republican Gov. Scott Walker has received $7,900 in campaign contributions since the beginning of 2010 from executives of a Menomonee Falls company that plans on moving 93 jobs from Wisconsin to Mexico after it received about $369,000 in state tax breaks to create and retain jobs.

April 28, 2015

Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, one of the largest dark money sponsors of negative electioneering activities in Wisconsin, is supporting a Republican proposal to reduce the amount of information candidates must disclose about special interest campaign contributions.

April 27, 2015

The politically powerful real estate and construction industries are backing a Republican legislative proposal that would prevent communities from imposing new occupational licenses, fees, and regulations on certain professions.

April 23, 2015

A Milwaukee business group that spent almost $200,000 to help elect Republican legislators is behind a plan to kill funding for a group that represents consumers before the state Public Service Commission.

April 22, 2015

Local governments in Wisconsin may be forced to buy property insurance on the private market after the legislature’s Joint Finance Committee agreed with Republican Gov. Scott Walker and decided to end a state fund that has sold them insurance since 1911.

April 21, 2015

Billionaire energy executives Charles and David Koch, who have pledged to spend about $900 million through secretive dark money groups on the 2016 presidential contest, would like Republican Gov. Scott Walker to emerge as the eventual GOP nominee.

April 17, 2015

A super PAC, which can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to support candidates for federal office, was created by former aides to Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who is a possible 2016 presidential candidate.

April 17, 2015

GOP lawmakers have introduced legislation that would reduce the quality and quantity of information that consumers are entitled to in debt-collection lawsuits. It would lessen consumer protections and make the law more favorable to merchants and debt collectors.

April 16, 2015

A legislative proposal is in the works that would grant a 20-year state income tax exemption to some businesses that move their headquarters to Wisconsin.

April 13, 2015

A nonpartisan state agency that fleshes out the cost of spending and policy proposals before the legislature says a plan to keep the public in the dark about research conducted on University of Wisconsin System campuses is among four dozen items in the proposed 2015-17 state budget that has nothing to do with state spending.

April 9, 2015

The money trail on this week’s race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court between Ann Walsh Bradley and James P. Daley was an unusual one in several ways.

April 8, 2015

Wisconsin legislators are pushing bills to license companies like Uber and Lyft that provide smartphone ridesharing services. The bills would then prohibit local governments from enacting their own regulations on these companies. The bills have the backing of insurers, lawyers and tavern interests. Uber is lobbying for the bills, which are supportive of the ridesharing companies.

April 6, 2015

Switchblade knives would be legal to carry for more than 240,000 Wisconsin residents who are now licensed to carry concealed guns under legislative proposals backed by the state arm of the National Rifle Association (NRA), which has spent more than $14,000 to help elect some of the bills’ sponsors.

April 2, 2015

A leading donor to state and federal GOP and conservative candidates nationwide, including Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate James Daley, contributed $200,000 to the state Republican Party less than a week before the April 7 spring elections.

April 2, 2015

Republican Gov. Scott Walker has contributed nearly $106,000 from his campaign committee to GOP candidates for statewide offices and the legislature during the past three years – a rare phenomenon among Wisconsin governors.

Posted: April 1, 2015
Updated: April 2, 2015

The latest top individual and political action committee (PAC) contributors to Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley and her challenger, James Daley, have been longtime backers of Democratic and Republican candidates for partisan statewide and legislative offices.