Month: April 2022

Three people have taken out nomination papers to run for county executive, but one of the individuals already says he is withdrawing his candidacy.   County board supervisor Sam Kaufman, Eden resident Jim Hess and Ripon resident Doug Iverson have submitted declaration of candidacy paperwork with the Fond du Lac County Clerk's Office.  Hess told WFDL news he support's Kaufman's candidacy and will not be running for the office.  Candidates have until 5pm on Tuesday April […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed a bill that would have eliminated the minimum age for attending voucher schools. Republicans introduced the bill in October. The proposal would have eliminated the minimum age for attending four-year-old kindergarten, five-year-old kindergarten or first grade at schools in the state's three voucher programs. Students who attend voucher schools get government subsidies to defray their tuition. Evers vetoed the bill Thursday, […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed bills that would create new penalties for attending a riot. The bill would have defined a riot as a public disturbance that involves an unlawful assembly. Attending or participating in such a gathering would have been a misdemeanor punishable by up to nine months in jail or a felony punishable by up three-and-a-half years in prison depending on whether property damage […]

Tommy Thompson paid a visit to former President Donald Trump in Florida for a talk Thompson's former aide says was mostly just about Wisconsin politics. Thompson is a former four-term Wisconsin governor who declined to rule out a run for governor earlier this year. He just stepped down this month from the presidency of the University of Wisconsin System. Bill McCoshen, a former chief of staff to Thompson during his […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers has filed a motion with the state Supreme Court urging the justices to affirm his legislative district boundary map that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected. The state Supreme Court adopted Evers' map in March, choosing his plan over Republican lawmakers' proposal. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Evers' map on March 23 after the GOP complained it increased the number of Assembly districts with […]