Month: April 2016

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates and outside groups spent at least $4.3 million ahead of Tuesday's election.  That's according to figures Justice at Stake and the Brennan Center for Justice released Wednesday.  The nonpartisan groups analyzed campaign finance reports and television advertising in the race between Rebecca Bradley, JoAnne Kloppenburg and primary opponent Joe Donald.  They found conservative group Wisconsin Alliance for Reform spent about $1.9 million […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Voter advocacy groups say Wisconsin's huge voter turnout Tuesday could have been even higher without the state's new photo identification requirement. The 2011 voter ID law went into effect this year after lengthy court battles and had its first statewide run in the February election.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman's comment to a Milwaukee TV station that Wisconsin's newly enacted voter ID law will "make a little bit of a difference" in helping the GOP in November has sparked retorts on social media.  Video of Grothman's comment had been retweeted hundreds of times, with critics calling it a gaffe.   Grothman was asked whether a Republican can win the White House. He responded […]

Marian University will host Take Back the Night on Tuesday, April 12, at 4:30pm in the Sadoff Auditorium in the Stayer Center.  One in three women and one in six men will experience sexual assault during their lifetime. Join Marian University in speaking out against violence and show support for survivors. During this event, a panel comprised of a survivor, a law enforcement professional, an advocate, a sexual assault nurse […]

The vote totals in a hotly contested town board race were delayed because of long lines at the polls.  Jim Rosenthal and John Abler were the winners in Tuesday’s race for Taycheeda town board.   Rosenthal received 951 votes and Abler got 947.   They defeated Bob Norris and David Howell.  Norris received 767 votes and Howell received 591 votes.   There was a long line of people waiting to vote when the polls closed at 8pm.  […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican voters casting ballots in Wisconsin's presidential primary have helped carry Rebecca Bradley to a 10-year seat on the state Supreme Court.  Bradley defeated JoAnne Kloppenburg in Tuesday's election, pushing past negative headlines over her inflammatory college writings bashing gays, AIDS suffers and feminists.  Republican Gov. Scott Walker appointed Bradley to the high court in December, making her the incumbent going into the election. After the […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is looking ahead to November, saying he wants to deliver Wisconsin for Republicans for the first time in 32 years.  Cruz won the state Tuesday and talked to supporters in Milwaukee.  Wisconsin has not voted for a Republican for president since Ronald Reagan in 1984. But Cruz says he will be the first Republican since then to win Wisconsin and paint the Badger […]

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Bernie Sanders' win in Wisconsin will net him a handful of additional delegates, but he still lags Hillary Clinton by a big number.  With 86 delegates at stake, Sanders will pick up at least 44. Clinton will gain at least 28.  He still must win 67 percent of the remaining delegates and uncommitted superdelegates in order to win the Democratic presidential nomination.  Based on primaries and […]

More than 60 percent of Fond du lac County residents cast ballots in Tuesday’s spring election.  County Clerk Lisa Freiberg says the polls were busy throughout the day. Freiberg and county board chair Marty Farrell were pleased with the large turnout locally.   "People in Fond du Lac County take their civic duty seriously,"  Farrell said. Freiberg says long lines delayed results in a hotly contested race in the town of Taycheeda. "At 8:20pm […]