Robin Vos

Could Vos Be Tossed Out By Voters?

His handling of pandemic blasted by opposition groups.

Vos Hit By Surge of Outside Spending

In last week outside groups spent nearly $280,000 against him. Foxconn issue in play?

Republicans Refuse to Work Across the Aisle

Service Union Rallies To Get Out The Vote

“Our work is essential and so are our votes." Union seeks Trump's defeat, $15 minimum wage.

GOP Made It Harder to Vote in Wisconsin

Especially for Black voters.

Vos Makes Appointments to Racial Disparities Task Force

This, after the speaker refused to hold a session on racial justice legislation.

Evers Ad Responds to Recall Effort

Law allows target of recall to raise unlimited funds. Ad touts his handling of pandemic.

Evers Recall Effort Claims Enough Signatures

But organizer won’t give exact number, brags about misleading the media.

Voters and Election Officials Push Forward

“Tremendous turnout.” State-wide more than 785,000 election ballots already turned in.

Demand a Joint Vos and Evers Virus Plan

Stop playing politics. Pass a pandemic plan with wide scale testing, rigorous tracing.

How Republicans Screwed Themselves

Opposition to mask mandate by GOP is bad law and very bad politics.

Larson Letter Urges More Days to Count Votes

Democrats cite massive absentee vote, call for extraordinary legislative session to extend time for ballot counting.

Republicans Have ‘Blood On Their Hands”

Evers signals he will ignore Legislative restriction, challenges GOP to present their pandemic plan.

GOP Legislators In Rules Standoff With Evers

Republican resolution requires Evers' health restrictions on public gatherings to get committee approval.

Foxconn Won’t Get State Tax Credits

State informs company it must revise contract or there will be no tax credits awarded.

Please Legislate, Democrats Ask State Senate

They call on Republican leaders to come back in session, deal with crisis state faces.

GOP Legislators Attack Evers’ New Restrictions

But Republicans have proposed zero plans for dealing with the coronavirus.

The Republican Death Squad

Why won’t Vos and Fitzgerald support measures to contain the state’s pandemic surge?

Wisconsin’s Legislature Laziest in U.S.?

Other states with full-time legislators have met 18 times more frequently than in Wisconsin.

Why Should Court End Mask Mandate, Judge Asks

Legislature has power to end Evers mandate, he notes, why should court usurp that right?

4 Reasons Legislature Won’t Reconvene

Haven’t met since April, won’t return this year. Republicans explain why.

Evers Urges Citizens, Practice COVID Safety

As cases surge, governor has given up on GOP legislators, urges people to stay home, wear masks.

Wisconsin 3rd Worst in Nation for COVID-19

Elections Commission Defends Voting Events

Absentee ballot dropoff in parks, and voter registration at Miller Park criticized by GOP.

The Decline of Wisconsin’s Republican Party

A conservative and Republican writer offers a scathing inside look. Not pretty.

Avoid Public Gatherings, Evers Urges People

Governor warns pandemic spiking, “a crisis — virus is everywhere,” says top health official.

Is Robin Vos Scared of Voters?

Republican legislators condemn Evers' mask mandate, but won’t override it as the law allows. Why?

Courts To Decide Governors’ Emergency Powers

Republicans oppose Evers’ mask mandate, want courts to restrict longtime power of governors.

Vos, Fitzgerald Appeal Election Deadlines

Federal court ruling extended deadlines for online registration and counting absentee ballots.

Republicans Fight Evers Mask Order

Emergency order “obviously illegal,” Evers a “lawless governor,” Vos declares.

Rebecca Kleefisch Will Run for Governor

Former Lt. Governor hasn’t announced, but is clearly organizing for 2022 campaign.

Trump At Issue in State Assembly Races

“Everything is nationalized” and could drive turnout, votes in legislative races.

Milwaukee Suburbs Key To Controlling Assembly

Dems target suburban districts, Republicans try to gain a veto-proof majority in the Assembly

Policing Protests Is More Than ‘Law and Order’

Police officials and experts say responding to protests is a complicated job.

Is COVID-19 Winning in Wisconsin?

The data is alarming. As are the many allies of the virus.

99% of State Public Water Meets Standards

But new report finds more than 300 water systems unsafe, violate federal standards.

Election Donors Operate in the Shadows

One third of all state campaign donations, some $12 million, from secretive outside groups.

Will Legislature Pass Any Policing Reforms?

Some 20 proposed bills with more to come. Will any pass and when?

Democratic Party of Wisconsin Responds to Vos, Fitzgerald Calls to Resume Big Ten Football Season Amidst Pandemic

Non-Profit Didn’t Report Campaign Spending?

Jobs First Coalition spent $1 million to elect Republican legislators but left it off tax forms, complaint to IRS says.

Task Force Seeks Bipartisan Policing Reform

And racial equity reforms. Will begin meeting in fall, propose legislative bills by next year.

Fitzgerald Refuses to Debate, Prefers to do Nothing as Usual

The Battle Over Face Masks

The limits of persuasion in a polarized state. Can science save lives and prevent threats?

GOP State Legislators Draw National Scorn

Country notices they spent one minute gaveling in and out of police reform special session.

Republicans Angry Yet Asleep on Policing

Unwilling to meet yet offering legislation to micro-manage police reforms in Milwaukee and Madison.

GOP Legislators Skip Special Session on Police

Evers called on lawmakers to consider reforms. Session quickly ended with no debate or votes.

WILL Judge Shops To Kill Mask Mandate

Conservative group files suit in Polk County, where both judges were appointed by Scott Walker.

League of Women Voters of Wisconsin Encourages Participation in Special Session

Recall Effort Launched Against Evers

Organizers oppose his policies on pandemic and Kenosha unrest.

Vos Task Force Deflects Actual Action

Speaker refuses to convene legislature to address policing and racial disparities.

GOP Mum on Special Session on Police Reform

Gov. Evers called special-session this week. Bucks Players called for Legislature to convene.

The world is watching, and the Legislature’s silence and inaction is deafening

Statement of Alderwoman (and State Representative) JoCasta Zamarripa August 27, 2020

Trump Says Evers Accepts Federal Troops

But Evers says he’s authorized more Wisconsin guard troops as officials argue over what should be done.

Senator Larson Statement: The Human Cost of Obstruction

Evers, Vos Battle Over Jacob Blake Shooting

Governor demands legislative special session on police reforms. Vos accuses Evers of “dictating liberal policies”.

Evers Calls for Special Session on Policing

In wake of Kenosha shooting calls for legislative session on police accountability, transparency.

Assembly Candidate Joel Jacobsen calls for change after opponent Robin Vos’ earns the top spot on the “Conservation Dishonor Roll”

Vos Failed to Report All Financial Holdings

Watchdog group dings speaker for not reporting all financial interests.

State Supreme Court Is Radically Activist

Record shows many examples of grabbing cases before lower courts rule.

GOP Hasn’t Interfered With Mask Mandate

They've criticized it, but for now they've left it alone.

Legislative Donors Give Record Amount in 2020

$7.1 million showered on legislative races in first half of 2020, shattering 2016 record of $5.1 million.

DPW Statement on Changes to the Democratic National Convention

Evers Says No Statewide School Re-Opening Plan

School districts will be responsible for decisions about re-opening.

Gerrymandering Creates Difficult Road for Dems in Wisconsin

Statement from Tom Palzewicz Regarding Fitzgerald’s Response To Governor’s Mask Order

GOP Senators Plan Override of Mask Mandate

Senate Majority Leader Fitzgerald says the Senate is ready to convene.

Vos Thinks Lame-Duck Session Didn’t Go Far Enough

The speaker would like to strip more power from Evers.

Statement: Mask mandate an important step, but state leaders should create new stay-at-home order

With COVID-19 surging, state leaders should shut down, start over and do it right

Bounce Milwaukee to temporarily close, citing broad public health concerns

Ten Years After Act 10

Most of those who voted for it are gone. How has the Capitol changed?

Legislature Hasn’t Met in 100 Days

No action since April 15 on pandemic, police reform, budget shortfalls.

The Party of Lincoln No More

Johnson, Grothman, Tiffany redefine Republican Party in an un-Abe-like way.

UW System, State Government Looking At Budget Cuts

Gov. Evers said state agencies need to cut $250 million.

CN Investing $100 Million in Wisconsin

Investments Focused on Safety and Capacity to Strengthen Rail Network, Help Reduce Emissions, and Support Economic Growth

Top health care professionals to Wisconsin leaders: time to shut down, start over and do it right

With COVID-19 spiking in Wisconsin, experts ask the state leaders to prioritize public health

Why Vos and Fitzgerald Fear Fair Maps

Only 10% of legislative districts and 0% of congressional districts offer voters a real choice.

State Law Punishes People With Disabilities

Vos-Walker law means disabled people who lose their job can’t get unemployment benefits.

Why Evers Must Take Action

Data shows state is losing the battle against COVID-19. He must reissue an emergency order.

Palzewicz Cautions: COVID-19 Not Over

Wisconsin Democrats Report Record Fundraising Haul

Party raises $10 million, the most it's raised in a three month period.

First-Time Candidate Reports Big Fundraising Success

Robin Vos Accepts Government-Funded PPP Loan Worth Up to $300,000 After Maligning Recipients of Government Aid

Accepted the Loan Just Days Before Leaving Essential Workers Out to Dry

State GOP Convention Decries Anarchy, Socialism

Hundreds at in-person convention in Green Bay despite fliers warning they ‘assume any potential risk’.

Legislature Unlikely to Respond to BLM Movement Soon

Republican controlled state legislature shows no signs of convening to respond to the growing movement for police reform.

WI Supreme Court Upholds GOP Lame-Duck Laws

For second time, the state's high court rules in favor of laws stripping some of governor's powers.

Legislators Who Opposed Pandemic Aid Grab Grants

Robin Vos and three other Republicans who opposed federal grants got at least $150,000.

State GOP Holding Convention in Hot Spot

In-person Republican convention next week in Brown County which has second-highest COVID-19 outbreak.

Fireworks harm the quality of life in our neighborhoods

Everybody Wants Action From Gov. Evers

Madison protesters want protection. Republican legislators want tougher policing.

Amend Rules to Choose Next UW President

UW Regents should revert to earlier, more collegial guidelines for search process that Republicans scrapped.

Fighting to Make Voting Easier

Increasing absentee ballots will be good for democracy.

Mail-In Voting for Nursing Home Residents Maintained

Due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, policy will continue through the end of the year.

Evers Introduces Police Reform Legislation

Bills banning police use of chokeholds, no-knock warrants part of legislative package.

Tommy Thompson Named Interim UW System President

Former governor comes in after a controversial search process that lost its top candidate.

Assembly Speaker Vos, Briggs and Stratton, Echo Lake Foods Scapegoat and Delay While Workers Die of COVID-19

Voces de la Frontera: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos Should Resign Leadership

Evers Meets With Lawmakers on Police Reform

Governor says the state is at a "watershed moment" for the issue of police reform, racism.

Vos Blames Immigrants for Pandemic

High rate of COVID-19 in Racine caused by “immigrant culture”, Assembly Speaker says.

ACLU of Wisconsin Comment on Assembly Speaker Robin Vos Scapegoating Immigrants Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Evers’ Office Secretly Recorded Meeting with GOP Leaders

The call was a debate between leaders over the 'Safer-At-Home' order after it was struck down.