One Wisconsin Now files ethics complaint against two state superintendent challengers
Advocacy group One Wisconsin Now has filed a complaint... alleging that the two challengers to State Superintendent Tony Evers may have violated the law. [WEAC]
Advocacy group One Wisconsin Now has filed a complaint... alleging that the two challengers to State Superintendent Tony Evers may have violated the law. [WEAC]
One Wisconsin Now filed a complaint today alleging the deal John Humphries and Lowell Holtz discussed was not just sleazy but possibly illegal.
Ross was particularly upset that Trump had a campaign aide accompanying him when the president spoke with staffers at the CIA headquarters a week ago. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Walker, his wife, Tonette, and their sons, Matt and Alex, all traveled to the game and drew notice from liberal critics such as the group One Wisconsin Now. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
[Scot Ross] said Humphries' decision to resign during the campaign "is putting his political ambitions before kids." [Associated Press]
"John Humphries is putting his political ambitions before kids," Executive Director Scot Ross said in an email to the Journal Sentinel. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
This was Paul Ryan's failure. He was either feckless or he was complicit in the attempted dismantling of the House ethics rules.
The people of Wisconsin deserve to know how elected officials are doing their jobs. And Brad Schimel - at the time these videos were recorded - was an elected official. [WKOW-TV]
Sen. Luther Olsen, Who Puts Pie Before Vets and Corporate Cash Before Poisoned Kids Featured Guest at Breakfast Fundraiser for Senate Republican Campaign Committee
The public interest demands the truth be exposed and the public officials involved in these affairs be held to account for their actions. [Capital Times]
The evidence shows to date state Sen. Scott Fitzgerald has not been forthcoming or honest with the media about these matters.
Senators Sheila Harsdorf, Luther Olsen and Tom Tiffany went the extra mile not just for big money donors but also for themselves.
Actions Speak Louder than Words as Sen. Sheila Harsdorf Silent on Vote to Give Legal Immunity to $750,000 Donor to Group Boosting Her 2011 Election Bid.
Sen. Luther Olsen benefitted from massive contributions from the owner of a business whose product poisoned children to a group that did his dirty work.
Before he was Attorney General, Brad Schimel said elected officials should be able to help their campaign donors, and this latest action shows he wasn’t kidding. [Wisconsin State Journal]
State Sen. Stroebel Takes State, Federal Government Handouts, Reports No State Tax Liability in Multiple Years, Tries to Cut Pay of Hard Working Wisconsinites.
Scott Walker has been regularly barring the public and the media from his taxpayer-funded ‘listening tour’ since it began in 2015.
"That line between campaign and the actual public office of the attorney general's office is being erased," said Jenni Dye, research director of the liberal group One Wisconsin Now. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Instead of hearing about what's really on the minds of Wisconsinites who overwhelmingly disapprove of the job he's doing, Scott Walker is tooling around the state on our dime.
"Gov. Walker is tooling around the state on our dime hearing from an exclusive audience recruited to tell him what he wants to hear," said One Wisconsin Now. [Capital Times]
Gov. Walker is denying legal counsel to a state agency because the lawsuit was brought by his campaign chair’s legal fund.
Based on his long history of self-dealing as a member of the Legislature, who better to target than Frank Lasee? [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Among the critics were conservative and liberal groups including One Wisconsin Now, as well as ordinary citizens with no political ax to grind. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
One group that has requested records from Bradley disagreed. The liberal group One Wisconsin Now requested Bradley's calendars in September. [Capital Times]
The Walker administration cited the [records denial] provision... when the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now requested visitor logs to the governor's mansion earlier this year. [Capital Times]
"Instead of doing her job, Rebecca Bradley left a hearing to run off and pledge 'I am your public servant' to the state's big business lobby," said One Wisconsin Now. [Associated Press]
Repeal of Civil Service Protections Removes Last Line of Defense From Walker Administration for State Employees
We see a blatant, coordinated effort between Rebecca Bradley's campaign and a right wing group spending big money on TV ads for her.
Scot Ross, executive director of liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, chastised Schimel’s move, noting the political arm of [WMC]. [Racine Journal Times]
Wisconsin would be ill-served by more of the Walker administration’s cronyism and corruption and less access to comprehensive health care services for families.
Jenni Dye, research director for One Wisconsin Now, said she doesn’t believe the police logs meet the definition of “transitory” records. [Capital Times]
The liberal group One Wisconsin Now says that answer indicates that Bradley is driven by politics, despite her assertions that she leaves her political inclinations behind in her duties as a judge. [Capital Times]
Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday indicated a decision by his administration to not release an employee's text messages related to a questionable WEDC loan goes against his own open records policy. [Capital Times]
The Walker administration also cited the August redefinition of “transitory correspondence” when denying a records request from the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now. [Racine Journal Times]
Then there was the open records request by One Wisconsin Now, asking for visitor logs at the governor’s mansion from November 2014 through early April 2015, during the time Walker was planning for and then campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination. Walker’s assistant legal counsel David J. Rabe claimed there were no visitor logs for […] [Urban Milwaukee]
The action drew objections from groups on both sides of Wisconsin’s partisan divide, such as the as the liberal One Wisconsin Now . [Wisconsin Radio Network]
The change drew criticism from conservative and liberal groups alike, including the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign and One Wisconsin Now. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Concealing a list of people who visit a public building, presumably to meet with the state’s most powerful leader, is arrogant and immediately suspect. [Wisconsin State Journal]
Scott Walker put his personal political ambitions before the well being of Wisconsin and mostly didn’t even show up to do the job for which he’s paid.
Then there was the open records request by One Wisconsin Now, asking for visitor logs at the governor’s mansion from November 2014 through early April 2015, during the time Walker was planning for and then campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination. [Isthmus]
A liberal watchdog group, One Wisconsin Now, filed an open-records request for the office calendars from Bradley's days as a judge in a lower case. [Esquire]
Liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now executive director Scot Ross said the column brings Bradley’s integrity into question, and characterized her column as endorsing lying in campaigns. [Wisconsin State Journal]
The changes also appear to address a records request from the advocacy group One Wisconsin Now. The organization repeatedly requested records which would show who visited the governor’s mansion before and after Walker became a presidential candidate. The group’s research director, Jenny Dye, got a “transitory records” denial one day after the board’s decision, and […] [PRWatch]
A liberal group is alleging state Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley violated the state's open records law and says it is exploring options for legal recourse. [Capital Times]
One Wisconsin Now says that based on her comments in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Rebecca Bradley, violated the state’s open record laws. [Wisconsin Daily Independent]
The years of blank pages Justice Rebecca Bradley gave and charged One Wisconsin Now at an exorbitant rate to retrieve were a complete fraud and fabrication.
Lueders’ group last week filed a verified complaint against the state Public Records Board, which it contended violated the open meetings law at its Aug. 24 meeting, when it voted to expand what can be considered as transitory records. Those transitory records — items considered to have no long-term value — have been central to […] [Capital Times]
Either Rebecca Bradley wasn't working very hard or she's hiding who she was meeting with and what she was doing on taxpayer time," Ross said in a written statement. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Gov. Walker has led an administration that has attacked clean and open government from day one, rife with systematic cronyism and corruption.
The rule changes also were raised in response to a request from One Wisconsin Now, a liberal group seeking a list of visitors to the governor’s residence. [Wisconsin Gazette]