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Citizens Vote to Raise Property Taxes to Pay for Schools
Wednesday, 14 November 2018 - Kathleen Vinehout, State Senator 31st District
http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/teaching-students-s5.jpgA historic amount of school referenda passed in last week’s election to meet the challenges school districts face with increasing student needs without adequate state revenue.
Hansen Will Re-Introduce Non-partisan Redistricting Bill
Tuesday, 13 November 2018 - Wisconsin Senate Democrats, Jay Wadd
http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/voterid_hand-s5.jpgFour elections demonstrate how rigging the maps has stacked the deck for Republicans in Madison. Governor-elect Evers has pledged to end partisan gerrymandering.
Governor-Elect Tony Evers Announces Key New Staff
Monday, 12 November 2018 - Tony Evers Press
http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/tony-evers-wins-s5.jpgMaggie Gau will become Chief of Staff and JoAnne Anton will serve as Transition Director. Transition Team Co-Chairs will assist in recruiting and appointing members of the new Governor’s Administration.
Cannabis Wins Big In Wisconsin!
Wednesday, 07 November 2018 - Southeastern WI NORML, Eric Marsch
http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/cannabis-cbd-s5.jpgReferendums passed overwhelmingly in all 16 counties, including Brown, and 2 cities, with up to 88% support for medical and 76% support for recreational. Mandate to proceed with legalization is clear.
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MADISON - An hours-long state server failure on Friday affected the Department of Transportation’s ability to issue photo IDs on the second-to-last business day before the April election. Many Government Accountability Board (GAB) voter-related applications also failed, causing outages for the local clerks throughout the state on the final day of early voting in Wisconsin.
“It is unfortunate and troubling that these critical state computer systems were down so close to the April election," said Assembly Democratic Leader Peter Barca (D-Kenosha). "I am deeply concerned that voters were inconvenienced or, worse yet, disenfranchised by these failures."
Wisconsin Republicans have put in place many barriers to voting in this state, including a severely restrictive voter ID law and limiting hours for early voting.
“I call for the state to make every accommodation possible to ensure that voters are able to obtain identification for voting and access the ballot box," said Barca. “Today I am joining my Democratic colleagues in demanding longer DMV hours this weekend to ensure voter registration and for Gov. Walker and others to lift the voter ID requirement for Tuesday’s election, given these deeply troubling developments.”
Rep. Barca also called for a full investigation and report from the Department of Administration and Department of Transportation on the outages.
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Rebecca Bradley candidacy is no joking matter and ‘Undermines Fair and Impartial Justice in Our State’, says non-partisan group One Wisconsin Now. A poll of Legal professionals rate Gov. Walker’s unqualified crony Court pick “Unqualified” and less than satisfactory for “Character and Integrity” and “Fairness and Impartiality”.
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All three announced candidates would return to days when people with health conditions had no guaranteed health coverage. Ted Cruz has most regressive health policy, while only Trump has plans to restrain prescription drug costs.
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It’s been so dark, so ugly, so ridiculously comical at times, it must signal something. A nation at war with itself, or maybe not. Mike McCabe argues the nation is remaking itself, and doing it far ahead of the politicians.
