Month: January 2022

The former chairman of the Republican Party of Fond du Lac County says U.S. senator Ron Johnson's decision to run for reelection will cause some dominoes to fall within the Republican party.   Rohn Bishop says in the end Johnson probably felt the momentum was on the Republican's side heading into the 2022 election.  "Unless something drastically changes between now and November it's shaping up to be a really big Republican year,"  Bishop […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s longtime secretary of state, Democrat Doug La Follette, says he is preparing to run for reelection to the office he was first elected to in 1974 and that he’s held since 1983. The 81-year-old La Follette told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he was motivated to keep the largely powerless office in Democratic control to prevent the GOP-controlled Legislature from transferring powers to run […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A recently promoted Wisconsin Department of Justice official who has accused the agency of racial and sexual discrimination has filed a federal lawsuit against Attorney General Josh Kaul and his top deputy. Tina Virgil, the head of the Division of Criminal Investigation, states that her civil rights have been violated. Virgil says she was hired by Kaul at a salary below her predecessors, who were white […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Environmental regulators are set to allow a factory dairy farm accused of contaminating Kewaunee County drinking water to expand, drawing the ire of conservationists. The Wisconsin State Journal reports Tuesday that the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has drafted new permit conditions allowing Kinnard Farms to nearly double its 8,000-head herd. The permit would give the farm until March to come up with a plan for […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers raised $10 million last year, while his top Republican challenger brought in $3.3 million in just four months. The massive fundraising totals announced Monday point to how expensive and hard fought the race will be in the battleground state. Evers released his fundraising totals just hours after Republican rival Rebecca Kleefisch, a former lieutenant governor, announced how much she raised since […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A recently promoted Wisconsin Department of Justice official who has accused the agency of racial and sexual discrimination has filed a federal lawsuit against Attorney General Josh Kaul and his top deputy. Tina Virgil, the head of the Division of Criminal Investigation, states that her civil rights have been violated. Virgil says she was hired by Kaul at a salary below her predecessors, who were white […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Legislature's Republican-controlled rules committee has voted to force election officials to publish rules on absentee ballot drop boxes and corrections by early February, a move that will allow the committee to kill the policies. The Wisconsin Election Commission issued guidance as the COVID-19 pandemic was beginning in 2020 that allows local clerks to create alternate sites for returning absentee ballots. The commission in 2016 issued […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has released a pair of television ads attempting to frame his reelection campaign he announced the day before as being about fixing a broken country. Meanwhile, Democrats are hitting Johnson for breaking his pledge not to serve more than two terms and are trying to paint him as an out-of-touch millionaire. The early salvos come in a race in a nearly […]