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Wisconsin Republicans are distancing themselves from Paul Nehlen, a Republican challenger to House Speaker Paul Ryan who has been suspended from Twitter after a series of posts criticized as being racist or anti-Semitic. Nehlen, who got just 16 percent of the vote against Ryan in 2016, is mounting another primary run this year.
Scott Walker has a plan: stop holding them . It may not surprise you that he's willing to violate Wisconsin law in doing so: The governor is deliberately denying Wisconsinites representation in the legislature by refusing to call special elections to fill open seats in the State Assembly and the State Senate.
Republicans in control of the Pennsylvania Legislature gerrymandered the state's congressional districts, seeking to entrench their party in power. Now that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that the state's partisan gerrymandering was unconstitutional , we're seeing an unprecedented assault on the rule of law.
It's the first state Supreme Court election without an incumbent since 2007, and the three-candidate race mirrors the divides in American politics. Madison attorney Tim Burns has the same outrage, and on the same issues, as the Vermont Democrat during his presidential run last year.
Wisconsin Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kevin Nicholson is attacking rival Leah Vukmir for taking some pay raises, calling her a hypocrite for not always returning them over her 15 years in the Legislature. Vukmir, a state senator, has been in the Legislature since 2003, first in the Assembly and now in the Senate.
Juveniles would no longer be housed at a Wisconsin youth prison complex that's been under federal investigation and the subject of multiple lawsuits alleging inmate abuse as part of dramatic reorganization plan announced Thursday by Gov. Scott Walker. The $80 million proposal would change the Lincoln Hills-Copper Lake prisons into medium-security adult prisons and open five smaller regional juvenile prisons across the state.
Wisconsin is reducing its efforts to slow the spread of the leaf-eating gypsy moth by preparing to end a program that helps fight localized outbreaks in already infested parts of the state. The state Department of Natural Resources is ending the aerial pesticide spraying program because of a decline in requests from local communities and because of growing private-sector alternatives to federally subsidized spraying.
When one TripAdvisor user saw a news story on Rams Head Tavern at Savage Mill in Savage, Md., he wanted to tell other users that its owner had been charged with six counts of secretly videotaping women with their pants down. The travel website removed the warning within a day.
By ALAN FRAM and MARCY GORDON Associated Press WASHINGTON - Wisconsin's Ron Johnson on Wednesday became the first Republican senator to say he opposes his party's tax bill, signaling potential problems for GOP leaders.
The renowned historian's latest book, "The American Spirit," a collection of speeches he has delivered over the past three decades, begins with his 1989 address to a joint session of Congress and ends with 2016 remarks in the Capitol's Statuary Hall, both of which included calls for lawmakers to live up to the history of the building. This week, his publisher, Simon & Schuster, is delivering the book to every member of the House and Senate with an inscription letting them know they "can enact change and help close the gap to common ground."
Family members of a 14-year-old boy fatally shot by a sheriff's deputy on a northern Wisconsin reservation questioned on Thursday why the teen, who they describe as loving and kind, was gunned down. Holly Gauthier said authorities have provided few details about the death of her son, 14-year-old Jason Pero, an 8th grader who died on the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa's reservation Wednesday.
Michael Brennan's nomination for a lifetime appointment as a judge on a federal appellate court whose jurisdiction includes Wisconsin is tainted in ways that should make Wisconsinites wary. The U.S. Constitution grants the president power to nominate federal judges "by and with the advice and consent of the Senate."
President Trump's surprise victory in Wisconsin last year left Democrats reeling and Republicans exuberant as they inched closer to complete control of the Upper Midwest swing state. Next year's midterm elections will determine whether the GOP can build on that success and turn the Badger State fully red, or whether Democrats can reconnect with voters in the middle of the country and re-establish their once solid blue wall there.
A vote is slated to take place Tuesday which will help determine the fate of the Graham-Cassidy Health Care Repeal Bill. "I'm calling on Wisconsinites to keep up the momentum and raise your voice the reason we need to keep fighting is simple, this bill will make things worse, and take people's healthcare away," Baldwin said.
The latest on the Wisconsin budget debate 4:55 p.m. The Wisconsin Senate's debate of the state budget is heading into the early evening, with no changes yet to the $76 billion spending plan. Three Republicans who had vowed to vote against it Friday and prevent it from passing were working with Gov. Scott Walker's office on an agreement to secure their votes.
It's next stop, the governor's desk for the Foxconn deal. The state Assembly on Thursday gave final approval to a $3 billion incentives package, for the Taiwanese electronics giant to build a huge LCD screen manufacturing plant in southeastern Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin Senate approved nearly $3 billion in cash payments for Foxconn Technology Group on Tuesday, while also giving the Taiwanese company a slightly less expedited path to the state Supreme Court for certain legal challenges related to a planned massive electronics manufacturing factory. Foxconn plans to invest up to $10 billion to build a flat-screen production factory in Wisconsin that would initially employ 3,000 but the company said could grow to 13,000.
Foxconn Technology Group could appeal lawsuits directly to the conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court, skipping the state appeals court, under changes to a $3 billion incentive package the Legislature's budget-writing committee approved Tuesday. The unprecedented change to the usual judicial process drew criticism from Democrats, who also blasted the $3 billion incentives as a corporate welfare giveaway.
The pledge by Taiwan's Foxconn to build a US$10 billion factory in southern Wisconsin has ignited cross-border competition with Illinois over which state's residents will get the jobs created by the project. FILE PHOTO: Employees work inside a Foxconn factory in the township of Longhua in the southern Guangdong province, China, May 26, 2010.