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A town of Delavan woman is running as a Democrat to challenge Republican state Rep. Tyler August in his re-election campaign to represent state Assembly District 32. August's name was floated as a possible candidate to run for House Speaker Paul Ryan's seat , but on April 12 he declined to run for Congress and announced his re-election efforts locally. The Assembly's speaker pro tempore said Washington is not the place to go and "get things done," and said he wanted to continue passing legislation and cutting taxes in Wisconsin.
Citizen Action of Wisconsin held the meeting focused on the Affordable Care Act and invited both Rep. Sean Duffy and Sen. Ron Johnson at their offices in Wausau and Milwaukee, but neither chose to attend. Jeff Smith is an organizer for Citizen Action and he said that since there weren't any town halls scheduled on the issue, they made one themselves.
The 44th annual Wisconsin Right to Life March took place in downtown Wausau early Sunday evening outside of the Marathon County Courthouse. Pro-life activists and organizers of the march Chet and Pam Rucinski spoke with WAOW Newsline 9, saying that the number of procedures being done is at a historic low.
Senate Democrats are calling on Republican leaders to schedule an extraordinary session of the legislature to approve roughly $18.5 million in repairs and upgrades at the Wisconsin Veterans Home at King, just one day before the Joint Legislative Audit Committee will meet to discuss problems uncovered by a Capital Times investigation of the facility. The improvements were all detailed in the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs 2015-17 budget request, but were denied by Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee.