Covering voting issues for the Washington Post. Previously with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Madison, Wis.
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BREAKING: In 4-3 decision, Wisconsin Supreme Court keeps the Green Party ticket off of Wisconsin's ballot.
Conservative Justice Brian Hagedorn joins the court's three liberals to form a majority.
This means clerks do not have to reprint ballots and can now mail them.
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BREAKING: @GovEvers withdraws 82 appointments made by former Gov. @ScottWalker.
He's able to take that step because a Dane County judge struck down the lame-duck laws (and confirmations) yesterday.
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Republicans have been complaining about machines made by Dominion Voting Systems, but those machines are not used in the counties that Trump selected for recounts in Wisconsin.
Dane and Milwaukee counties use machines by Elections Systems & Software.
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The attorney hired by Wisconsin Republicans to review the 2020 election performed his initial work on a computer at the New Berlin public library because he didn’t have a computer of his own.
He was paid $11,000/month by taxpayers soon afterward.
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BREAKING: Wisconsin appeals court stays lower court ruling, allows absentee ballot drop boxes to be used in Feb. 15 spring primary.
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BREAKING: Wisconsin's mask mandate remains in place after judge declines to block it at request of a conservative legal group and Republican lawmakers.
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Sheriff indicates he won't enforce stay-at-home order.
“I took an oath to uphold the constitutional rights of our citizens & I cannot in good faith participate in the destruction of Racine Co. businesses or interfere in the freedoms granted to all of us by our Constitution."
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In 4-3 decision, Wisconsin Supreme Court bans the use of ballot drop boxes.
washingtonpost.com/politics/…
Community note
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that ballot drop boxes could only be placed in election offices, it did not make all drop boxes illegal.
apnews.com/article/2022-m
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BREAKING: A Waukesha County judge bars the use of absentee ballot drop boxes in Wisconsin.
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A judge today revoked the ability of attorney James Bopp Jr. and others in his firm to continue to represent the arm of the Wisconsin Assembly that spent the last year investigating the 2020 election.
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Weird stance from someone who asks to go off the record when he talks to reporters
Priebus is demanding that reporters stop using anonymous sources. cbsnews.com/news/white-house…
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Lawsuit seeks to block counting of military ballots in Wisconsin washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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BREAKING: 7th Circuit Court of Appeals lets extended deadlines for voting go into effect.
This means absentee ballots that arrive after election day can be counted if they're postmarked by then.
It's a win for Dems & a setback for GOP lawmakers who fought the rule change.
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BREAKING: Fast-moving appeals court denies Gov. @ScottWalker's request for more time before he has to order special elections for two vacancies in the state Legislature.
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Illustrating how extensive the veto power in Wisconsin is, @GovEvers today struck the “20” and the hyphen from “2024-25” to guarantee more money for schools every year through 2425.
Story c/o @MollyBeck and @jessieopie:
jsonline.com/story/news/poli…
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BREAKING: Judge orders Wisconsin to purge more than 200,000 voters from list bit.ly/2Ecr2Pn
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Republican lawmakers hope to hold a hearing Monday and vote Tuesday on bills moving Wisconsin's presidential primary, limiting the new governor's power and paring back early voting.
They have yet to make these bills (and others under consideration) public.
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Per GOP source, Wisconsin Republicans are hoping @kanyewest will receive as many votes as Libertarian Gary Johnson did in 2016 -- about 107,000.
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UPDATE: The night before he disclosed he had contracted COVID-19, Sen. Ron Johnson spoke to dozens at a GOP event jsonline.com/story/news/poli…
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BREAKING: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he is thinking of taking power away from Gov.-elect Tony Evers even before he is sworn in.
This would be done in a lame duck session sometime over the next 2 months.
Senate Majority Ldr. Scott Fitzgerald hasn't said if he is on board.
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Two legitimate Wisconsin presidential electors sue slate of Trump-backed fake electors.
They are seeking up to $200,000 in damages from each fake elector.
jsonline.com/story/news/poli…
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BREAKING: In a dramatic turnaround, an attorney reviewing the 2020 election for Assembly Republicans on Thursday canceled interviews with mayors and city clerks and backed off on subpoenas he issued to them days ago.
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Polls are now closed in Wisconsin.
Those who were in line by 8 p.m. can still vote, no matter how long the line takes.
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Next up: Trump campaign objects to absentee ballots where a clerk filled out a witness’ address (instead of the witness doing it himself or herself).
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A Brown County judge tonight ruled @kanyewest cannot appear on Wisconsin's ballot for president because his team filed its paperwork just after the 5 p.m. deadline.
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I’m excited to start working for the Washington Post later this month covering voting issues in the Upper Midwest.
washingtonpost.com/pr/2022/0…
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Wisconsin Elections Commissioner @BobSpindell argues in testimony to state lawmakers that fraud occurred because of large amounts of mail-in voting.
Spindell voted this summer to send absentee ballot applications to all registered voters in the state.
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Kasich on lame-duck action in WI and MI:
“It’s outrageous. I mean, you lost the election, OK? When you lose, you say you lost. You can’t try to reverse the election by manipulation. I’m frankly shocked at what is going on here."
.@JohnKasich, former 2016 GOP presidential primary opponent to @ScottWalker, not supportive of Walker signing lame-duck bills.
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This is a patently false statement.
Wisconsin allows no-excuse absentee voting.
The president is confusing that policy with how Wisconsin treats indefinitely confined voters, who do not have to provide a photo ID to get an absentee ballot.
“In Wisconsin, somebody has to be indefinitely confined in order to vote absentee. In the past there were 20,000 people. This past election there were 120,000...and Republicans were locked out of the vote counting process.” @VicToensing @newsmax
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BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court has changed the absentee rules in Wisconsin's election.
Absentee ballots must be POSTMARKED by April 7 (and received by April 13). A district judge had not required ballots to be postmarked by then -- only that they be received by April 13.
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BREAKING: In a 4-3 decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court says it will make as few changes as possible to legislative and congressional districts. That approach all but gurantees Republicans will continue to hold large majorities in the Legislature. bit.ly/3FYCdJe
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Chris Troupis of the Trump campaign says the law allows the campaign to review a ballot and all related materials whenever it challenges ballots.
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Today's court decision vacated 82 @ScottWalker appointments that senators confirmed during the lame-duck session.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspends Jim Troupis from a judicial advisory committee. Troupis, a former attorney for Trump, last week was charged with conspiracy to commit as part of a GOP elector plan.
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The former chairman of the Green Bay Republican Party has cut a video for Republican Voters Against Trump.
Mark (@markbecker26) was the Green Bay Wisconsin GOP chair, but he's finished with Trump's Republican Party.
"After Trump loses, the Republican Party as a whole is going to have a lot to answer to."
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Republican leaders would not disclose how many or which lawmakers have contracted COVID-19, nor would they answer questions about contact tracing efforts — including whether anyone worked at the state Capitol after they were exposed to the virus.
Wisconsin Republicans have been facing an outbreak among lawmakers and aides. But they don't want to talk about it. jsonline.com/story/news/poli… — via @MSpicuzzaMJS and @MollyBeck
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Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn says some of Gableman’s testimony was contradictory.
She notes he said he was bedridden with COVID for two weeks in July but during the same period typed a 7-page report at a public library.
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The attorney, former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, disclosed his work habits in court this morning.
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Applications are in the room but the Trump campaign is not able to review them.
Trump attorney Chris Troupis objects to all absentee ballots that do not have written applications, and he is unable to review which ones have applications.
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In fact, Trump himself tonight criticized Dominion on Twitter... but he didn't ask for a recount in the Wisconsin counties that use those machines.
"Dominion-izing the Vote" piped.video/watch?v=eKcPoCNW…
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Today the Wisconsin Supreme Court in a 4-3 order reappointed Jim Troupis to a panel that advises judges on ethics.
Troupis was Trump’s recount attorney in Wisconsin and helped assemble “alternate electors” for Trump after Biden won the state.
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BREAKING: Former state Supreme Court justice overseeing Wisconsin's election review attends Mike Lindell's conspiracy-fueled 'cyber symposium' bit.ly/2VHI2Jb
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BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court keeps in place appeals court ruling on Wisconsin's voting rules.
That means no changes will be made for how the Nov. 3 election is conducted in this key swing state.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Daniel Kelly was paid $120,000 by Republicans to work on 'election integrity,' advise on fake electors jsonline.com/story/news/poli… — via @DanielBice
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Cudaback, con't: "These are the same desperate antics of politicians hellbent on staying in power after eight years. The people of Wisconsin deserve better from our government, and that’s why they voted for a change yesterday.”
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Gableman tells a judge he drove from Mike Lindell’s forum in South Dakota in July to an urgent care center in Wisconsin. Soon afterward he was diagnosed with COVID and spent the next two weeks in bed, he says.
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'I shouldn't be here': Oshkosh bar owner in ICU with COVID-19 blames Trump for out-of-control pandemic jsonline.com/story/news/poli… — via @MollyBeck
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Remington adds this: "If this case were not on appeal, I could sanction OSC and each of its seven lawyers for their specious legal arguments...."
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Gableman says after working for the Assembly he deleted the Yahoo email account he had long used. He says he does not know how to search it for relevant records now that it has been disabled.
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Gableman says he asked someone to delete his Yahoo account for him but he can’t remember who that was.
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BREAKING: Appeals court sides with @GovEvers, allows his action to stand that pushed 15 appointees of former Gov. @ScottWalker aside.
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Conservative control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is ending after 15 years.
@janetforjustice defeats @JusticeDanKelly
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz rules she won't recuse herself from a redistricting case, as requested by Republican lawmakers. This preserves the court's 4-3 liberal majority on this case, and raises the prospect lawmakers will try to impeach her.
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The judge also notes Gableman’s office filed paperwork with the state saying he used five hotel rooms for his Arizona trip but on the stand said only four people went there.
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Judge: "From August 30 through December 4, 2021, the evidence speaks for itself. OSC accomplished nothing. It kept none of the weekly progress reports the Wisconsin State Assembly required it to keep. It recorded no interviews with witnesses. It gathered no measurable data..."
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Gov. Tony Evers will propose legalizing recreational and medical marijuana as part of the next state budget jsonline.com/story/news/poli…
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The president liked a tweet that says accused Kenosha killer Kyle Rittenhouse “is a good example of why I decided to vote for Trump.”
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Republicans built the Wisconsin voting system that President Donald Trump is attacking bit.ly/2J9y0dN
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Billy Bush says there were 8 witnesses to Trump’s “Access Hollywood” comments - via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2017/12/03/opini…
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GOP megadonors Diane Hendricks and Dick and Liz Uihlein were able to claim a combined $215 million in deductions in 2018 because of provisions @SenRonJohnson put into the tax cut Trump signed, according to @propublica. propublica.org/article/secre…
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The judge purges the contempt-of-court finding for @repvos now that Gableman has explained when records were destroyed.
She will hold a July hearing to determine whether the Assembly must pay punitive damages & attorney fees for @weareoversight, which sued under the records law.
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.@SykesCharlie helped get @SenRonJohnson elected in 2010. Now, he’s not so impressed.
Sykes writes that after his 2016 re-election, Johnson “was poised to be very much his own man. Instead, he became Trump’s.” thebulwark.com/the-strange-c…
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'I'm frankly amazed': A second judge orders Wisconsin Republicans to prevent destruction of records in Gableman's election review bit.ly/3OXDbdT
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BREAKING: On a 4-3 vote, the Wisconsin Supreme Court denies @repvos' request to avoid a deposition.
He is slated to take questions under oath on Wednesday from @weareoversight.
Story coming soon.
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Former Gov. @Scottwalker casts some doubt on Trump's chances with a recount in Wisconsin.
Walker narrowly lost his 2018 reelection bid.
After recount in 2011 race for WI Supreme Court, there was a swing of 300 votes. After recount in 2016 Presidential race in WI, @realDonaldTrump numbers went up by 131.
As I said, 20,000 is a high hurdle. #Election2020
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Wisconsin Republicans have been facing an outbreak among lawmakers and aides. But they don't want to talk about it. jsonline.com/story/news/poli… — via @MSpicuzzaMJS and @MollyBeck
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Evers spokeswoman @BrittCudaback:
“It’s unfortunate that Speaker Vos is doubling down on division just hours after Governor-elect Evers called on Speaker Vos and Majority Leader Fitzgerald to set aside differences and work together on the pressing issues facing our state.
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Just moments after Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature voted to end @GovEvers' mask requirement, he signed a new executive order that will keep it in place.
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Sen. Ron Johnson, who fought making Juneteenth a holiday, gets loudly booed:
Ron Johnson deserve far more booing than he got for his opposition to #juneteenthday
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FBI joins investigation of threats to grand jurors in Trump Georgia case — via @hollybdc and @HannahAllam washingtonpost.com/national-…
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As a 2+ hour hearing wraps up, a Waukesha County judge says he will not issue an injunction requiring military ballots in Wisconsin to be sequestered.
This means these 1,400 ballots will remain on track to be counted.
.@unionveterans has filed to intervene in @RepJanel's lawsuit aimed at preventing the immediate counting of military ballots in Wisconsin.
The fate of about 1,400 ballots is at stake.
A hearing in the case will be held this afternoon.
Background: washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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BREAKING: Judge finds Wisconsin election officials in contempt of court, orders them to quickly remove thousands of people from the voter rolls.
He charges three commissioners $250 a day each for defying his order.
jsonline.com/story/news/poli…
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Gableman goes on to say he believes the person who deleted his Yahoo account for him was attorney Andrew Kloster.
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Remington rules Bopp and his colleagues' arguments are "wholly without merit and, together, their disobedience for the rule of law is contemptuous."
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Gov. Tony Evers vetoes string of Republican bills meant to change how elections are run bit.ly/3KBMvl2
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Judge Remington: "It does not matter how often OSC repeats its baseless arguments. The time has come and gone for OSC to show its substance. There simply is nothing there."
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“Curd immunity.”
Wisconsin cheesemakers host vaccine clinics for workers, community (via @MSpicuzzaMJS) jsonline.com/story/news/2021…
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Under this ruling, voters can place ballots in blue postal boxes maintained by @USPS but not ballot drop boxes maintained by municipal clerks.
The former are on street corners scattered around the state. The latter are often in libraries or fire stations and watched by cameras.
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Good morning, Wisconsin. Your legislators have not been sleeping.
Here's the latest on the lame-duck session from the sleep-deprived @MollyBeck and me:
Republicans to scale back Democrats' power and limit early voting after overnight session
bit.ly/2rgox8a
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When @janetforjustice is sworn in to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in August, conservatives’ 15-year run of controlling the court will end.
Liberals will hold a 4-3 majority.
A thread about future elections:
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BREAKING: A Dane County judge on Friday ruled @repvos must turn over records within 10 days about a secretive review of the 2020 election that Republicans have been conducting for months.
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Elon Musk has launched a hostile takeover bid for Twitter, offering to buy it for $54.20 a share, just weeks after he became the social media company’s largest shareholder. — via @nytimes
nytimes.com/live/2022/04/14/…
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"...It organized no existing data into any analytical format. It generated no reports based on any special expertise. It did commence lawsuits against other parts of our state and local government, although at time of this writing, OSC has received no relief. ..."
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Waukesha County Circuit Judge Mark Bohren ruled Thursday absentee ballot drop boxes can't be used in Wisconsin, potentially upending aspects of the spring elections and the fall's high-profile contests for governor and U.S. Senate.
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.@judgedallet beats @judgescrenock for a seat on the state Supreme Court, per @AP.
She is the first liberal to win an open seat on Wisconsin's high court in 23 years.
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It’s high noon and there is no protest at the Wisconsin Capitol.
The ratio of journalists to protesters is ~20:0.
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“When we say that the election in WI was free and fair, we’re not guessing. We know that b/c we hv audited the election. We hv recounted the election. We hv canvassed the election. There hv been court decisions that hv looked at the election & affirmed the result.” — Meagan Wolfe
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BREAKING: League of Women Voters of Wisconsin files a lawsuit over purging the voter rolls in federal court.
The group is trying to move the fight from state court to federal court.
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The president calls boycotting Harley-Davidson “great” two days before the primaries in Harley’s home state of Wisconsin.
Many @harleydavidson owners plan to boycott the company if manufacturing moves overseas. Great! Most other companies are coming in our direction, including Harley competitors. A really bad move! U.S. will soon have a level playing field, or better.
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9 discarded ballots weren't fraud, state election chief says — via @AP apnews.com/article/election-…
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.@judgekarofsky comes out swinging in arguments over lawsuit Trump brought over the election in Wisconsin's two most populous counties.
"This lawsuit, Mr. Troupis, smacks of racism," Karofsky tells Trump attorney Jim Troupis.
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This is the fifth ruling against Trump and his allies in Wisconsin in a little over a week.
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NEW: Wisconsin Republicans to hire an attorney at taxpayer expense to defend DNR Board member who has refused to step down after his term expired bit.ly/2W9xJO8
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Gableman, who is leading a Republican review of the presidential election, didn't vote in 7 recent Wisconsin races jsonline.com/story/news/poli…
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After tearing down the statue of an abolitionist:
“ ‘Who even is this guy?’ asked one protester while reading the pedestal’s inscription.”
— via @telldylan isthmus.com/news/news/statue…
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