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Tag: glenn grothman

Posted inMoney & Politics Column

New tool helps track congressional assets

by Bill Lueders November 24th, 2014July 29th, 2016 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

In all, Wisconsin’s eight House members and two senators reported assets worth between $54 million and $171 million. These holdings generated income between $1.2 million and $7.4 million in 2013.

Posted inMoney & Politics Column

Pols raise cash behind closed doors

by Bill Lueders October 14th, 2014July 29th, 2016 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Campaigns shroud fundraisers in as much secrecy as Yale’s Skull and Bones society. The giving of money to politicians occurs, as much as possible, out of public view.

Posted inMoney & Politics Column

Congressional candidates hope to defy pundits

by Bill Lueders September 30th, 2014July 29th, 2016 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

The pundits have proven much better than quixotic candidates at making electoral predictions. And two highly reliable sources, Cook Political Report and Sabato’s Crystal Ball, say only one of Wisconsin’s eight congressional seats is even possibly in play.

Posted inMoney & Politics Column

State rehab breaks could prove costly

by Bill Lueders November 26th, 2013July 29th, 2016 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Areas of broad agreement in the Wisconsin Legislature are hard to find. One exception: a bill to expand state tax credits for restoring old buildings.

Cindy Kilkenny
Posted inOpinion

Your Right to Know: Don’t shield donor employer info

Cindy Kilkenny by Cindy Kilkenny October 30th, 2013July 9th, 2018 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Grothman’s bill would raise the threshold for when donors to state and local campaigns must disclose their occupations and eliminate the requirement that the donor’s principal place of employment be disclosed.

Posted inMoney & Politics Column

State cool to climate-change action

by Bill Lueders September 11th, 2013July 29th, 2016 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Of the more than 600 bills introduced in Wisconsin’s 2013-14 legislative session, none contains the terms “climate change,” “greenhouse gases” or “global warming,” and only a handful deal with energy policy.

Posted inOpinion

Your Right to Know: Pull back veil on budget tweakers

Mark Pitsch by Mark Pitsch August 29th, 2013July 9th, 2018 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Doesn’t the public have a right to know who came up with these ideas? This would let voters hold their elected officials accountable at the ballot box and look for potential conflicts.

Posted inMoney & Politics Column

Gun law push will face pushback

by Bill Lueders January 2nd, 2013July 29th, 2016 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Then a gunman with an assault rifle murdered 26 people, mostly little children, at an elementary school in Connecticut. This atrocity, on top of other recent carnage, including two mass shootings in Wisconsin, is seen as opening the door to new gun laws.

Posted inMoney & Politics Column

Sen. Schultz expects better mining bill

by Bill Lueders November 26th, 2012July 29th, 2016 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Now the GOP is assured of a 18-15 lead — enough to make Schultz as irrelevant as the Democratic minority. But the Republican from Richland Center is optimistic that the Senate will pass a bill that has his support.

Posted inGovernment, Justice & Safety, Money & Politics

A long wait yields expansive new freedoms

by Bill Lueders October 30th, 2011August 1st, 2016 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Wisconsin’s new law, which allows citizens to carry concealed weapons, has been hailed by the NRA as “one of the nation’s strongest.”

Posted inMoney & Politics Column

Bill would nix donors’ need to name employers

by Bill Lueders October 20th, 2011July 29th, 2016 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) has introduced a bill to end the requirement that those who give more than $100 a year to state political campaigns disclose their principal place of employment.

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