Scot Ross is known for the steady stream of press releases his office issues seemingly within minutes of the news of any legislative or executive action on the state level. [Urban Milwaukee]
Scot Ross, head of the liberal activist group One Wisconsin Now, said Cruz "has assembled a cast of unlikable and unaccomplished right wing extremists from Wisconsin." [Associated Press]
Republicans are trying to pass off a scheme that denies every single person in with student debt any help lowering their monthly loan payment as a solution to the student loan debt crisis. [Capital Times]
One Wisconsin Now released a statement condemning state lawmakers who vote in favor of passing the package, saying the measures do not go far enough to address student loan debt. [Milwaukee Business News]
Scot Ross, head of the liberal activist group One Wisconsin Now, said Cruz “has assembled a cast of unlikable and unaccomplished right wing extremists from Wisconsin.” [Associated Press]
The liberal group One Wisconsin Now said Bradley is exactly the kind of candidate conservative money has attacked in past races for lacking crime-fighting experience. [Capital Times]
"Gov. Walker and his money machine are working overtime to keep a crony who will have their back on the state high court," said One Wisconsin Now. [Northwoods River News]
As Scot Ross, director of One Wisconsin Now, pointed out, not one student loan borrower in Wisconsin will see their monthly payments reduced by one cent under the Wisconsin governor’s proposal. [Chippewa Herald]
Scot Ross, executive director of liberal group One Wisconsin Now, called it an effort to “rig” the 18th district race for political advantage. [Associated Press]
“I carry with me the stories of hundreds of folks across Wisconsin and how this debt is holding them back from achieving their version of the American Dream,” Analiese Eicher said. [La Crosse Tribune]
According to numbers from the liberal group One Wisconsin Now, the overall buy is about $870,000 for the statewide campaign. [Capital Times]
One Wisconsin Now reported that the right-wing dark-money group Wisconsin Alliance for Reform has bought nearly $900,000 of pro-Bradley ads before the Feb. 16 primary. [Shepherd Express]
The listening session will include a presentation from One Wisconsin Now on the student loan debt crisis, the impact state budget cuts have had on the University of Wisconsin System and its funding, and the ramifications for higher education affordability for students. [Wausau Daily Herald]
The ad is part of a more than $400,000 buy from the conservative Wisconsin Alliance for Reform, according to numbers from the liberal group One Wisconsin Now. [Capital Times]
The ad is part of a more than $400,000 buy from the conservative Wisconsin Alliance for Reform, according to numbers from the liberal group One Wisconsin Now. [Capital Times]
Make no mistake, Walker didn’t create Wisconsin’s student loan debt. But his attacks on higher education, combined with his anemic response to the $19 billion crisis, are much like his own college career: incomplete. [Capital Times]
Liberal group One Wisconsin Now said its research shows Wisconsin Alliance for Reform has spent closer to $400,000 on ads. [Associated Press]
Last week, One Wisconsin Now discovered that the right-wing front group Wisconsin Alliance for Reform bought nearly $415,000 of pro-Bradley TV ad time in advance of the Feb. 16 primary. [Shepherd Express]
I would describe Walker’s alleged college affordability plan in the same way I would characterize his own personal higher education experience — woefully incomplete. [Badger Herald]
Liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, which tracks media buys, said on Friday that the total amount, including ads purchased for cable stations, is far higher, although that could not be independently confirmed. [Wisconsin State Journal]
Scot Ross, executive director of liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, chastised Schimel’s move, noting the political arm of [WMC]. [Racine Journal Times]
According to calculations provided by the liberal group One Wisconsin Now, the group plans to spend on broadcast: about $100,000 in the Madison market. [Capital Times]
One Wisconsin institute, Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund, and six Wisconsin residents filed a complaint against a series of provisions that Wisconsin has made since 2011 to its voting and election laws. [State of Elections]
The board’s decision drew little notice when it was made in August. But it came under scrutiny last month after Walker’s administration cited it to explain why it had no records on file in response to requests from the Wisconsin State Journal and liberal group One Wisconsin Now. [Racine Journal Times]
“This is yet another indication of [Gov. Scott] Walker and the Republican-controlled Legislature’s misplaced priorities,” he said. [Badger Herald]
But the student loan debt program coordinator at One Wisconsin Now, Analiese Eicher, says the governor's ideas, like more internships, don't go far enough. [Public News Service]
"A career politician like Scott Walker knows better than this, you amass a war chest three years out from the campaign instead of draining it," he said. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Scot Ross, executive director of One Wisconsin Now, said student loan interest rates are higher than those for any other loans that citizens take out. [Badger Herald]
Scot Ross, executive director of One Wisconsin Now, said student loan interest rates are higher than those for any other loans that citizens take out. [Badger Herald]
One Wisconsin Now testified against the GOP package, arguing lawmakers should do more than what's being offered. [Capital Times]
“It’s common-sense solutions like allowing loans to be refinanced that will help these borrowers, not the excuses and empty political gestures Gov. Walker and the Republican Legislature are offering up,” said Scot Ross. [Capital Times]
Any plan that doesn’t include this simple, common sense reform is not a serious attempt to help with the student loan debt crisis. [Superior Telegram]
When the head of Gov. Walker's job creation agency makes dozens of workers choose between their religion and their jobs, it's another reminder of why Wisconsin remains at the bottom of job creation in the Midwest. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
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]
Feeling the heat from One Wisconsin Now, Gov. Scott Walker felt the need this week to try to look like he was do something on the issue of student loans and the costs of higher education. [Daily Kos]
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]
“Bob Gannon says black people in Milwaukee are responsible for over 10,000 mass layoffs in municipalities across the state," said Scot Ross, the executive director of One Wisconsin Now. "His statements are despicable, racist tripe that should embarrass all of his Republican colleagues." [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
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]
"It is Republicans who have targeted reproductive health care with 'special' scrutiny, proposing restriction after restriction designed to burden women and their doctors." [Capital Times]
Walker "has come up with his most ridiculous excuse to date for his intransigence on the refinancing issue, blaming Connecticut." [UPI]
Forgive the debt, or allow students to refinance their loans at lower rates under the Higher Ed, Lower Debt bill. The first would cost $19 billion, the other, costs nothing. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Scot Ross, executive director of liberal group One Wisconsin Now, said refinancing student loans is one of the best ways to solve the student loan "crisis." [Appleton Post-Crescent]
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]
“I think Wisconsin is probably one of a select few states that has joined every single one of these lawsuits against the Obama administration,” said Scot Ross, executive director of the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now. [Wisconsin Gazette]
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]