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A freshmen rep has filed to run in the Democratic Lt. Gov primary
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Freshman state Rep. Sara Rodriguez,
D-Brookfield, has announced her bid for lieutenant governor, joining state Sen. Lena Taylor in the field looking to run with Gov. Tony Evers next fall.
“I know from growing up in and now raising my kids in Waukesha County, that there is still much more that unites us than divides us,” Rodriguez said. “We all want great schools, to fix the roads, to honor our democracy, to address climate change, to access quality healthcare, and to have the opportunity to earn an honest living.”
Rodriguez, who has degrees in public health and nursing, knocked off GOP Rep. Rob Hutton last fall for the suburban Milwaukee seat that had been trending Dem with Donald Trump in the White House.
The shape of the seat remains up in the air amid redistricting.
The maps GOP leaders have proposed would give the 13th AD a solid GOP lean. Meanwhile, a map Senate Dems proposed on Friday would pair her in a district with GOP Rep. Janel Brandtjen, of Menomonee Falls.
Taylor, whose Senate seat isn’t up again until 2024, announced her bid for lieutenant governor in early October.
Others who have been mentioned as candidates include: state Rep. David Bowen, of Milwaukee; Wausau Mayor Katie Rosenberg; Brown Deer Village Trustee Emily Siegrist, who ran for Assembly in 2020; and Racine Ald. John Tate II. Sara Rodriguez
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Judge orders Voz to turn over election probe records
Dane County Circuit Court Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn has given Assembly Speaker Robin Vos 10 days to turn over at least some records from former Justice Michael Gableman’s probe into the 2020 election.
In a hearing Nov. 5, Bailey-Rihn ruled the Rochester Republican must turn over all records between his office and Gableman’s team requested by American Oversight if they were created earlier than Aug. 27, when the Office of Special Counsel was created. Bailey said Vos acted as an authority over Gableman, who was acting as a contractor for the Legislature.
But records created by Gableman and his team after the Office of Special Counsel was created do not fall within BaileyRihn’s order to comply with American Oversight’s open record requests. She did not make a ruling on the matter today.
American Oversight describes itself as a “nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog that uses public records requests backed by litigation to fight corruption, drive accountability, and defend democracy.”
Bailey-Rihn agreed with an argument from American Oversight’s attorney, Christa Westerberg, that creating the Office of Special Counsel in a way to skirt open records requests results in a “bureaucratic shell game.”
Evers vows to veto GOP maps
Gov. Tony Evers is vowing to veto proposed GOP maps unless they’re revamped significantly and then call the Legislature to a special session to take up his maps.
But Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, knocked the People’s Maps Commission proposals. The Oostburg Republican noted they would create fewer majority Black and Hispanic districts than the maps GOP leaders drew. He also pointed out more Wisconsin voters would have to wait more than four years to vote in a state Senate race under the commission’s maps vs. Republicans’.
Under the GOP proposal, 138,753 voters would be moved from odd-numbered Senate districts -- which are up in the 2022 cycle -- to even-numbered seats -- which aren’t up again until 2024. The same would be true of 523,402 voters under the commission’s plan, according to his office.
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WI expects 800K deer hunters this month
Wisconsin can expect over 800,000 hunters to participate in the deer hunting season as the gun season comes up later this month.
DNR Director of Wildlife Management Eric Lobner during a virtual press call said hunters who participate in Wisconsin’s Nov. 20-28 gun deer hunt boost the economy statewide. Lobner added those hunters, numbering higher than the average annual State Fair attendance, bring billions of dollars to retail stores as well as restaurants and lodging businesses in rural areas.
Lobner told WisPolitics.com the state is on track to issue roughly the same number of licenses as last year.
He said Wisconsin saw 876,600 licensed deer hunters during last year’s deer hunting season. That’s up from the roughly 792,000 licenses DNR issued in 2019, he added.
Wheel tax revenues on the rise
Local governments in Wisconsin collected $62.8 million in wheel taxes during the fiscal year that ended June 30, a 12.1 percent increase over the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Policy Forum.
The report is the latest sign of how local governments have increasingly relied on wheel taxes to generate revenue.
In late 2011, just four Wisconsin communities imposed a local wheel tax. By February, more than 44 will have one, including 13 counties, 22 cities, eight villages and one town. Marathon County imposed a wheel tax in 2016 and made it permanent in 2017.
Fiscal year 2021 was the seventh straight year of double-digit growth for wheel tax collections, which must be used for transportation needs.
McGrath announces for CD3
Dem Deb McGrath, a former CIA officer and Army captain, today formally announced her campaign for the western Wisconsin congressional seat her father once represented.
McGrath, who also served in the State Department, joins Eau Claire businesswoman Rebecca Cooke, Navy veteran Brett Knudsen and state Sen Brad Pfaff, of Onalaska, in the Dem field for the 3rd CD.
McGrath focused on her experience serving abroad. She told WisPolitics.com in an interview last month she resigned from the Army after five years when she and her husband started a family. She joined the CIA in 2002 and retired in December, becoming a contract employee with the agency’s World Factbook, a resource on the world’s countries.
“While abroad, I witnessed how countries could thrive or decline based on government responsiveness,” McGrath said. “Our country struggles to find solutions to issues that impact our national security: adequate education, affordable health care, basic infrastructure, and economic opportunity. I have experience in solving problems through rational collaboration.”
Dem U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, who’s retiring after 25 years in the seat, in 1997 succeeded Gunderson, who did not seek reelection.
Wolfe jousts with GOP lawmakers over LAB’s 2020 election report
Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe jousted with GOP lawmakers as she urged corrections to a critical LAB report on the 2020 election.
Rep. Mark Born, R-Beaver Dam, said he was taken aback by what he called Wolfe’s attack on the Legislative Audit Bureau since the report was released last month, saying he’d never seen an agency head take that approach toward the nonpartisan agency.
During Wolfe’s testimony before the Joint Legislative Audit Committee yesterday, Born said the issues she raised about the report were minor.
“I don’t see here there are major problems with this audit. I don’t see the errors that you were citing. It seems to be very minor interpretations of things for the most part,” Born said.
Wolfe countered errors in the report have been cited by those “trying to undermine the credibility of our democracy.” She noted the LAB didn’t share a draft of the report with the commission ahead of time, saying it would’ve allowed the agency to fix the errors.
The LAB said it didn’t share the report to protect the confidentiality of the details before its public release.
“I’m taken aback that folks are so taken aback that I’m appalled to question that,” Wolfe said, noting other agencies have been given the opportunity to provide input on audits before they’re released.
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