July 11, 2016
9:32 pm
Former Democratic Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager was selected Monday as chair of Wisconsin's new Ethics Commission, and the job of administrator was offered to a former analyst of the nonpartisan board the panel was created to replace.
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June 28, 2016
9:33 am
Three finalists from a list of 23 applicants have been selected to be interviewed to become the first leader of Wisconsin's new Ethics Commission.
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June 10, 2016
12:22 pm
A member of Wisconsin's nonpartisan state elections board says he prays that the public "come to its senses" and demand a reversal of a state Supreme Court ruling ending an investigation into Gov. Scott Walker.
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June 9, 2016
1:32 pm
Members of the newly created commission to regulate ethics and campaign finance laws for Wisconsin office holders and lobbyists continued their organizational work Thursday with the simplest of tasks: deciding on a name.
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June 3, 2016
12:04 pm
Gov. Scott Walker has appointed a former Sheboygan County Clerk to one of the new entities that will replace the board that oversees elections.
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April 1, 2016
1:06 pm
Wisconsin state agencies' computers are back online after a server failure.
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March 10, 2016
5:46 pm
Former Democratic Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager has been named to the state's new ethics commission.
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February 12, 2016
3:57 pm
Wisconsin officials are predicting only about 10 percent of eligible voters will turn out for Tuesday’ s primary election for the state Supreme Court and various local offices.
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February 1, 2016
1:04 pm
Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board is pushing to inform people about new voter photo ID requirements with two weeks left before the spring primary.
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January 26, 2016
11:45 am
Wisconsin lawmakers are insisting that they didn’t intend to allow corporate political donations to remain secret under the recent overhaul of the state’s campaign finance laws.
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December 22, 2015
2:40 pm
Will the breaking up of the state’s Government Accountability Board into two agencies controlled mostly by representatives of the main political parties result in nothing more than gridlock and inaction?
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December 17, 2015
12:13 pm
The state's elections board and the Wisconsin Club for Growth say they've reached a settlement over a lawsuit related to an investigation into Gov. Scott Walker's 2012 recall campaign.
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December 16, 2015
1:31 pm
Republican Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill Wednesday that eliminates Wisconsin's nonpartisan state elections board and replaces it with a pair of commissions made up of political appointees, despite opponents' concerns about the potential for corruption and a lack of transparency.
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December 15, 2015
12:29 pm
The state Government Accountability Board is getting ready to implement changes to Wisconsin's campaign finance laws.
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November 19, 2015
1:52 pm
The Wisconsin Department of Administration says taxpayer costs for private lawyers defending state officials from lawsuits stemming from a secret investigation into Gov. Scott Walker's recall campaign have topped $1.2 million.
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November 16, 2015
8:36 pm
The state Assembly gave final approval Monday to a pair of Republican-backed bills that would significantly alter the flow of money into Wisconsin political campaigns and dramatically change oversight of elections, campaign finance and ethics laws.
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November 16, 2015
4:43 pm
The Wisconsin Assembly has passed a bill dissolving Wisconsin's nonpartisan board overseeing elections, campaign finance and ethics laws.
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November 13, 2015
9:29 am
Democrats and advocacy groups are making a final push to stop bills that would do away with Wisconsin's unique nonpartisan elections board and rewrite state campaign finance laws.
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November 9, 2015
9:15 am
Wisconsin Republicans early Saturday pushed through a pair of bills to loosen campaign finance law and end the state's nonpartisan elections board after hours of late-night debate in the state Senate.
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November 6, 2015
2:22 pm
Republican state senators said Friday they are ready to vote on a bill that would put retired judges on a commission overseeing ethics and campaign finance laws, but still undecided about whether to require donors to disclose who they work for.
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November 4, 2015
4:39 pm
Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said Wednesday he has the votes to pass a compromise bill that would put two retired judges on a new ethics commission, a move that also won support from the measure's sponsor and other reluctant lawmakers.
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November 2, 2015
10:42 pm
The state's elections board is asking a judge to dismiss as no longer relevant one of the claims that Wisconsin Club for Growth made against it in a lawsuit related to the investigation into Gov. Scott Walker.
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October 28, 2015
2:39 pm
The Republican leader of the state Senate is optimistic that bills dissolving Wisconsin's unique nonpartisan elections board and rewriting the state's campaign finance law will be passed next week.
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October 26, 2015
1:02 pm
Republicans who control the state Senate have canceled a floor session Tuesday and plan to use the time instead to discuss bills that would overhaul the state's elections board and campaign finance statutes.
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October 21, 2015
12:41 pm
The Wisconsin Assembly was poised Wednesday to vote to dissolve the state's nonpartisan elections board, however a Republican state senator said the bill in its current form doesn't have enough support to pass in his chamber.
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October 20, 2015
12:11 pm
Election clerks registered their support Tuesday for Wisconsin's embattled nonpartisan elections board, which would be eliminated under a bill moving quickly through the Legislature.
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October 19, 2015
1:52 pm
Three Republican-backed proposals to eliminate Wisconsin's unique nonpartisan elections board, do away with secret investigations into political wrongdoing and legalize coordination between issue advocacy groups and candidates will usher in a new era of corruption, Democrats said Monday.
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October 15, 2015
2:41 pm
The head of Wisconsin's nonpartisan elections board is defending the agency from Republicans who want to do away with it.
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October 14, 2015
9:54 am
The Wisconsin state Assembly plans to vote next week on bills dissolving the nonpartisan state elections board to create a partisan commission and prohibiting the use of secret John Doe investigations into political crimes.
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October 13, 2015
1:03 pm
Wisconsin's unique nonpartisan elections and government ethics oversight board is a failed experiment that has not lived up to expectations, Republicans who support moving to a new partisan model argued at a joint legislative hearing Tuesday.
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