All posts tagged "Wisconsin"

A Wisconsin congressional hopeful landed in handcuffs after a profane outburst aimed at a father who was driving his young son to school.

Matthew Arndt, a Green Party candidate running in Wisconsin's 6th Congressional District, was arrested Thursday on a disorderly conduct charge with a hate crime enhancer after he cursed out an Israeli immigrant over an anti-Hamas bumper sticker, the New York Post reported.

The father told the Post the trouble began on a road in the Milwaukee suburb of Mequon, where Arndt pulled up beside him, rolled down his window and started swearing and flipping him off....

A bipartisan elections panel found that billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk "likely broke Wisconsin law" when he gave $1 million checks to voters in last year's Supreme Court election, according to The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission voted 5-1 to hand the case to prosecutors, who now have 40 days to decide whether the Tesla CEO faces criminal charges for election bribery.

Musk and his allies spent at least $20 million trying to install conservative judge Brad Schimel — only to watch him lose by 10 percentage points. The total spending for the election topped $100 million, the priciest judicial race America has ever seen....

Republicans have looked to a battleground Wisconsin race to recover from election losses in November.

Both the Republican and Democratic parties have dropped tens of millions into the Badger State's upcoming Supreme Court race, which is slated to be one of the "next big electoral tests," according to a Politico report published Friday.

"Republicans’ lone hope lies in energizing enough of their own voters," Alec Zimmerman, communications director for Sen. Ron Johnson during his 2022 campaign, told the outlet. ...

A Wisconsin farmer is suing the Trump administration's Department of Agriculture over its continued use of diversity, equity and inclusion programs that he says are keeping white, male farmers from receiving loan forgiveness.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed the lawsuit against the USDA Monday "on behalf of white dairy farmer, Adam Faust," according to the Associated Press.

The AP quoted Faust saying in a statement, “The USDA should honor the President’s promise to the American people to end racial discrimination in the federal government. After being ignored by a federal agency that’s meant to support agriculture, I hope my lawsuit brings answers, accountability, and results from USDA.”...

WASHINGTON — News that former President Joe Biden has advanced prostate cancer has Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) demanding answers from what he calls a “cabal of radical leftists” that supposedly ran the U.S. government in Biden's stead.

“They were running the government,” Johnson claimed to Raw Story at the Capitol Wednesday. “What's worrisome is that he was incapacitated.”

Presidential and now personal physicians to Biden, 82, disagree. Republicans like Johnson don’t really care what such doctors say....

Democrats hit out at Derrick Van Orden after the Wisconsin Republican representative called for the Trump administration to implement cuts at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

“So when are we going to cut the VA?” Van Orden asked at a U.S. House hearing on Thursday.

“Derrick Van Orden isn’t even trying to hide it – he wants to cut the VA,” Katie Smith, a spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told Raw Story on Friday. ...