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WisconsinEye featuring extensive 2020 election content

WisconsinEye featuring extensive 2020 election content

by | Oct 16, 2020 | Election, Legislative Update Blog

WisconsinEye is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization funded by charitable contributions that operates in Wisconsin much like C-SPAN does at the national level. They reached out to us regarding their Campaign 2020 coverage. While the WASB is forbidden from making political contributions or endorsing candidates, we are sharing links to these WisconsinEye resources to help you navigate the election cycle and better understand the views of the candidates who seek to represent you. As mentioned below, you can look up content by legislative districts and see candidate information and interviews:

From Wisconsin Eye: “As we are closing in on the Nov. 3rd general elections, I want to mention the Campaign 2020 work we are doing. In particular if this might be of value to your members – feel free to refer to this link. https://wiseye.org/category/campaign/. Note that this url brings up our campaign page, and lists all the content that is campaign-related. The page is updated as we add to it and features interviews of nearly everyone running for state and federal offices. Plus other events, debates and forums.

“One nice feature is the District search check-boxes on the side. These allow a person to click a district box, which helps folks find content relative to their district. This is really helpful as it relates to the candidate interviews – in that a person can find candidates in their district. For instance, there are some interesting races in the 3rd Congressional and Assembly Districts. So if I checked the District 3 checkbox – this is the result.”

 

51 school referenda on Nov. 3 ballot

by | Oct 14, 2020 | Election, Legislative Update Blog, State Issue

A total of 51 local school district referenda questions in 41 school districts will be before voters when they go to the polls on Nov. 3.  

Twenty-one of the 51 ballot questions request permission to issue debt for construction of new facilities or the maintenance or remodeling of existing school facilities.  Overall, voters will be asked to approve nearly $927 million in borrowing for these projects. The largest asks are in Madison ($317 million); Wausau ($155 million) and Oshkosh ($107 million). The ballot questions in these three districts alone account for 62 percent ($579 million) of the overall borrowing requested statewide.

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Numerous current, former school board members running on Nov. 3 ballot

Numerous current, former school board members running on Nov. 3 ballot

by | Oct 14, 2020 | Election, Legislative Update Blog

WASB government relations staff has identified several current or former Wisconsin school board members whose names will appear on the Nov. 3rd ballot, running for seats in either Congress or the Wisconsin Legislature. (If you are aware of others who we may have missed, please let us know and we will update this post accordingly.)

While the WASB is forbidden from making political contributions or endorsing candidates, we can take note of which of our current and former members have stepped forward to place their names on the ballot.  These include: (more…)

Numerous current, former school board members running on next Tuesday’s ballot

by | Aug 4, 2020 | Election, Legislative Update Blog

Next Tuesday, August 11, is the date of Wisconsin’s August partisan primary election.  The WASB government relations staff has identified at least 19 current or former Wisconsin school board members whose names will appear on the ballot, running for seats in either the Wisconsin Legislature or Congress.  (If you are aware of others who we may have missed, please let us know and we will update this post accordingly.)

While the WASB is forbidden from making political contributions or endorsing candidate, we can take note of which of our current and former members have stepped forward to place their names on the ballot.  These include:

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