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Paul Ryan: Leave Wisconsin’s electoral college rules alone
While some Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin have mulled over changing the state’s electoral college process to split the electoral vote, former vice-presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) expressed opposition to the idea, even though it would have helped his campaign in the 2012 election. “I’ve always kind of liked the…
Wisconsin recall elections officially underway
Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board has voted 5-0 to recall Republican Governor Scott Walker after receiving nearly 901,000 signatures, many more than the 540,208 required by law to trigger an election, according to a report in the Wisconsin State Journal. The recall elections are the culmination of months of effort by…
Court official calls Wisconsin Justice Prosser ‘a classic abuser’
The investigation into an apparently violent altercation on the Wisconsin Supreme Court just seems to get more and more complicated. Conservative Wisconsin Justice Mike Gableman insisted to the Wisconsin State Journal on Thursday that although he got the date wrong, he was indeed rapped on the head by Justice Ann…
Wisconsin GOP official resigns after drunken crash with kids in car
Columbia County Republican Party chair Amber Hahn resigned on Friday after drunkenly crashing a car carrying herself and her three children, according to The Wisconsin State Journal. Hahn, 35, crashed her car Thursday night while driving drunk. No other vehicles were involved and fortunately no one was injured. Police were…
Voter ID law to cost Wisconsin DMV an extra $6 million
Fiscal responsibility has been a battle cry for Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, but his voter photo ID law is going to cost the state big bucks. After passing the new law, Walker had tried to close at least 10 Division of Motor Vehicle (DMV) offices — allegedly in Democratic…
Wisc. union protester claims Capitol staffer attacked her balloon
Though the pro-union protesters in Wisconsin are no longer making front page news daily around the country, their resistance continues — most recently, in a bizarre direction involving a trail of blood and a popped balloon. Activists have taken to holding red heart-shaped balloons in the Capitol rotunda in Madison,…
Gun advocate allegedly punches Wisconsin union activist in the face
A daily non-violent singalong at the Wisconsin Capitol turned ugly Tuesday when it was interrupted by a former Republican state senator and two pro-gun advocates. Former state Sen. David Zien yelled “Walker for president” while the two other men attempted to cover some of the union activists with the former…
Has WI Gov. Walker killed his own bill?
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and his allies have published Walker’s controversial bill limiting the rights of public unions to collectively bargain, in spite of a state judge’s restraining order against publication of the bill by Secretary of State Doug LaFollette. Supporters of the bill have appealed Judge Maryann Sumi’s stay…
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