MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Governor Scott Walker says he's "not particularly keen" on raising gas taxes to help pay for roads projects in Wisconsin. Walker's Department of Transportation proposed a tax increase on both unleaded and diesel gas as part of a $750 million tax and fee hike proposal to pay for roads. Walker had been largely silent on what he would support or reject in the state budget he […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Governor Scott Walker says he's praying over whether to run for president in 2016 as he hires a senior adviser, plans a trip to Iowa in a couple weeks and expects to form an organization to raise and spend money. Walker says today that his hiring of experienced presidential adviser Rick Wiley doesn't mean he's decided to enter the race. But he says Wiley will help […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will attend a conservative political event in Iowa this month. Organizers of the Iowa Freedom Summit announced Thursday that Walker will participate. The Jan. 24 event in Des Moines is being sponsored by Citizens United and Republican Congressman Steve King of Iowa. Walker, a Republican recently re-elected to a second term, is weighing a 2016 presidential bid. Spokesman Tom Evenson said […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin prisoner can't call himself only by his spiritual name on his letters. Norman Green was convicted of homicide in 1991. He filed a lawsuit in 2011 demanding he be allowed to call himself only by the spiritual name Prince Atum-Ra Uhuru Mutawakkil in his correspondence. He contended a prison policy allowing inmates who have legally changed their names to use those new names applies […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Looking up a woman's skirt would be a felony under a Republican-sponsored bill that's one of the first introduced this year in the Wisconsin Legislature. An Assembly committee was scheduled to discuss the measure Thursday. It would increase the severity for the invasion of privacy to a Class I felony. The offense would become punishable by up to three years behind bars. The current penalty for […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of the candidates for the Wisconsin Supreme Court says he has no opinion on whether judges should be forced to retire at age 75 or on a proposal to change the way the chief justice is selected. Rock County Circuit Judge James Daley made the comments in an interview Thursday. He is running against Justice Ann Walsh Bradley in the April 7 election. Bradley was […]
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is expanding his team of aides as he considers running for president in 2016. Walker has hired former Republican National Committee political consultant and Wisconsin Republican Party executive director Rick Wiley as an adviser. A person with direct knowledge of Walker's decision told the Associated Press about the move, speaking on condition of anonymity today.
Political observers say it appears more likely that Governor Scott Walker will run for president in 2016 and congressman Paul Ryan will not. WisPolitics.com editor J.R. Ross says Walker can continue to serve as governor and run for president at the same time. "He will run for president, for sure," Ross told AM 1170 WFDL's Between the Lines program. "There's almost no way at this point the governor Walker will […]