Wisconsin Political News

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/23524449

Seven western Wisconsin Republican lawmakers did not appear at an event hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union in Chippewa Falls Friday as farmers from the area said they were concerned about the effect that President Donald Trump’s first month in office is having on their livelihoods. 

Madison-area U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Black Earth), state Sen. Jeff Smith (D-Eau Claire) and state Reps. Jodi Emerson (D-Eau Claire) and Christian Phelps (D-Eau Claire) were in attendance. 

U.S. Reps. Tom Tiffany and Derrick Van Orden, state Reps. Rob Sommerfeld (R-Bloomer), Treig Pronschinske (R-Mondovi) and Clint Moses (R-Mondovi) and state Sens. Jesse James (R-Thorp) and Rob Stafsholt (R-New Richmond) were all invited but did not attend or send a staff member.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33140391

Not content with spending more than a quarter of a billion dollars to elect Donald Trump and Republican candidates in 2024 and then taking a wrecking ball to the federal government, Elon Musk is now trying to flip the balance of power on the top court in one of the country’s most important swing states.

Building America’s Future, a dark money group backed by Musk, is spending at least $1.6 million in support of Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel, a conservative judge in suburban Milwaukee who is running for an open seat in an April election that will decide whether progressives or conservatives control the court. The group began running ads across the state on Thursday.

Fuck that requirement.

Farmers need to stop voting against their own interests. You knew when they voted republican that your migrant workers would be deported.

Farmers need to stop voting against their own interests. You knew when they voted republican that your migrant workers would be deported.

Headline should read A woman-choking excuse of a law degree died today and the world is better for it.

Anyhow, rot in hell, woman abuser.

In keeping with republican tradition, Hovde is the latest losing candidate who questions election integrity.

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/19153925

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday on whether a law that legislators adopted more than a decade before the Civil War bans abortion and can still be enforced.

Abortion rights advocates stand an excellent chance of prevailing, given that liberal justices control the court and one of them remarked on the campaign trail that she supports abortion rights. Monday's arguments are little more than a formality ahead of a ruling, which is expected to take weeks.

It is a felony in Wisconsin to impede or prevent “the free exercise of the franchise at an election.” The Wisconsin Elections Commission urged clerks to contact law enforcement if anyone attempted to tamper with a drop box or prevent its use.