BREAKING: Kyle Rittenhouse of Antioch, Illinois arrested in Illinois related to the Kenosha shooting.
He will be charged with 1st Degree intentional homicide.
BREAKING: A Milwaukee city election official fraudulently requested military absentee ballots and sent them to Republican state Rep. Janel Brandtjen, Mayor Cavalier Johnson says. She has been fired, Johnson says.
BREAKING: Wisconsin Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner on WISN says he won't run for re-election, after representing his Republican district for more than 40 years.
NEW: U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson tells Wisconsin conservative radio host Vicki McKenna that the WI/MI fake elector information his chief of staff tried to give to VP Mike Pence came from PA congressman Mike Kelly.
Marlon Anderson, a Madison high school security guard who was fired last week for saying the N-word while telling a student not to use it, says today he has his job back.
Earlier this year, a Racine County man who believes Donald Trump won Wisconsin in 2020 (he didn't) fraudulently requested absentee ballots for Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Racine Mayor Cory Mason to show voter fraud is possible. He has been charged.
BREAKING: Republican candidate for governor Tim Michels says he has conceded Democratic incumbent Gov. Tony Evers.
"Unfortunately, the math doesn't add up," he says at his election night party.
At a rally in New Richmond, Mike Lindell complains at length about The Daily Show, Fox News, and Newsmax before introducing "our real president" Donald Trump, who is no longer president and did not win the 2020 presidential election.
Breaking: Wisconsin
@GovEvers
in a two-page letter asks President Trump to reconsider coming to Kenosha on Tuesday:
“I am concerned your presence will only hinder our healing. I am concerned your presence will only delay our work to overcome division and move forward together.”
GOP legislative leaders file motion in court today seeking to block mask mandate, arguing the governor doesn't have authority.
Move comes after more than 17,000 people in Wisconsin tested positive in the last 7 days and some hospitals in NE WI are on brink of being overwhelmed.
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul on President Donald Trump's expected lawsuit over Wisconsin's election results: "I have every confidence that this disgraceful Jim Crow strategy for mass disenfranchisement of voters will fail ..."
NEW: Democratic U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan sent a letter today to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland asking his office to investigate Republicans who submitted false elector documents following the 2020 election.
Milwaukee election officials just announced the city will have just five polling locations for Tuesday's election instead of the 180 they typically do amid a massive poll worker shortage.
Up to 50,000 MKE voters are expected to vote, which means 10,000 could show up at each site
Amazing: Kenosha sheriff asked if he sees a problem with what video of Jacob Blake shooting shows. Says he can't answer b/c he hasn't seen video.
"Really??" reporter asks
"I'm sticking with that."
"Is it a problem, that you haven't seen the video?"
He stops taking questions.
The official is Milwaukee Election Commission deputy director Kimberly Zapata.
Zapata sent them to Brandtjen to alert her of election fraud being possible, election commission executive director Claire Woodall-Vogg says.
A Chippewa Falls attorney who is a key player in a movement to take the impossible step of decertifying the 2020 election is running for AG to use the office to launch homicide investigations of doctors who did not give ivermectin to dying covid patients.
"Please pray for everybody. Please pray. My family is safe but many are not. I held one little girls head in my hand, she was seizing and she was bleeding out of her ears. I held her mother as she collapsed. Please pray," Montiho told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Look at this in Wisconsin! A day AFTER the election, Biden receives a dump of 143,379 votes at 3:42AM, when they learned he was losing badly. This is unbelievable!
Waukesha School Board member Corey Montiho said his daughter's dance team was hit by the SUV.
"They were pom-poms and shoes and spilled hot chocolate everywhere. I had to go from one crumpled body to the other to find my daughter. My wife and two daughters were almost hit."
18 months after terms expired, GOP appointees to Wisconsin's technical college board continue to serve and deny Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' appointments (via
@KellyMeyerhofer
)
BREAKING: Dane County Judge issues temporary injunction blocking laws passed by GOP in lame-duck session limiting power of
@GovEvers
and Attorney General Josh Kaul.
BREAKING: A Dane County judge has issued a ruling holding the state Assembly and Speaker Robin Vos in contempt for violating a November court order to produce records related to Michael Gableman's review of the 2020 election.
BREAKING: Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers' administration issues a new order limiting gatherings, including limiting people in bars, restaurants and stores to 25% of capacity
Derrick Van Orden, a Republican candidate for Congress who lost to U.S. Rep. Ron Kind on Nov. 3, says his name is being used without permission as a plaintiff in a federal lawsuit to make Trump the winner of Wisconsin's election, despite receiving fewer votes than Biden.
NEW: A staff member of U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson texted an aide to Vice President Mike Pence and told him Johnson wanted to hand-deliver the slates of fake presidential electors from Wisconsin and Michigan. The Pence aide texted back "do not give that to him."
.
@SenRonJohnson
tells reporters he tried to get permission from President Donald Trump to tell Ukraine's president U.S. aid was on its way in the wake of allegations Trump was withholding it until Ukraine investigated his political rival.
Johnson said he wasn't successful.
Hundreds of Donald Trump's fans, most without masks, filtered onto an airport tarmac this afternoon awaiting a visit from the president amid soaring coronavirus cases across Wisconsin.
“This entire pandemic is a hoax," said Brandon Rice of Eau Claire.
"It could end up in the Supreme Court yet today but the bottom line is the people of Wisconsin, they don’t care about the fighting between Democrats and Republicans — they're scared,"
@GovEvers
said in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The court is controlled by conservatives 5-2.
This decision was written by 4 conservative justices: Chief Justice Patience Roggensack, Rebecca Bradley, Daniel Kelly & Annette Ziegler.
Evers on GOP lawmakers putting up Christmas tree in Capitol w/o permit: "Isn't that something? They go 230 days without doing any work legislatively, which I think is their job, and then spending a short period of time putting up a tree in the rotunda in a building no one is in."
🚨 People working 55 or more hours each week face an estimated 35% higher risk of a stroke and a 17% higher risk of dying from heart disease, compared to people following the widely accepted standard of working 35 to 40 hours in a week, according to WHO.
Johnson says Jim Troupis, a Dane County attorney who represented Trump in his recounts of Dane and MKE counties and sought to throw out thousands of ballots (including his own), texted him that morning about getting a "document on Wisconsin electors" to him and Pence immediately.
Autopsy shows Rosenbaum had a gunshot wound to the right groin which fractured his pelvis, a gunshot wound to the back which perforated his right lung and liver, a gunshot wound to his hand, a superficial gunshot wound to his thigh, and a graze gunshot wound to his forehead.
The majority opinion says the governor's order to stay home should have been issued a rule instead of an order.
Now, Republicans who control the Legislature and the Democratic governor must agree on a plan moving forward.
Agreement is not a dynamic they find often.
Madison has 66 open polling locations and has a population of 258,054.
Milwaukee has 5 open polling locations and has a population of 592,025.
I'm in Madison and polling locations I've seen don't have lines.
In Milwaukee, some people are waiting up to two hours.
From the complaint: "A review of the second video shows that the defendant and Rosenbaum continue to move across the parking lot and approach the front of a black car parked in the lot. A loud bang is heard on the video, then a male shouts, “Fuck you!”
The court’s fifth conservative, Brian Hagedorn, wrote a dissent joined by the court’s two liberals, Ann Walsh Bradley and Rebecca Dallet.
Hagedorn worked as chief legal counsel for former Gov. Scott Walker.
2021, Day 13:
Me to dentist: I think I have a bunch of cavities. My mouth hurts a lot.
Dentist looks.
Dentist: Your teeth are fine. You've just been clenching your jaw constantly. Do you have a stressful job?
Me:
Plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit seeking to disqualify all presidential votes in Dane, Milwaukee and Menominee counties have voluntarily dismissed their suit.
Gov. Tony Evers vetoed 28 bills today and signed 15. Among the vetoed bills are Republican-authored measures that would have dissolved Milwaukee Public Schools and removed income and enrollment limits in the state's private school voucher programs.
Ron Johnson says Capitol attackers 'love this country' but he would have felt unsafe if Black Lives Matter stormed the building instead via
@journalsentinel
BREAKING: Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers issues a statewide mask mandate starting Saturday, the same day the Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal minority expands with new justice
@judgekarofsky
.
Evers also issues a new public health emergency citing rising cases of coronavirus.
ICYMI: A Wisconsin infectious diseases expert says allowing people to vote in person Tuesday will likely halt progress the state is making in flattening the curve
.
@GovEvers
orders the rainbow Pride flag to be flown on top of the Wisconsin State Capitol. It will be the first time a Pride flag will be flown at the Capitol, the governor’s office says.
"... then Rosenbaum appears to continue to approach the defendant and gets in near proximity to the defendant when 4 more loud bangs are heard. Rosenbaum then falls to the ground."
Waukesha's mayor and police chief are providing reporters a brief statement about the parade incident:
Mayor Shawn Reilly: "Tonight was a traumatic situation for the city of Waukesha. We don't have all the details. We can't provide details at this point."
Democratic incumbent Gov. Tony Evers gets choked up at a rally in Madison talking about his granddaughters, some of whom are in the audience.
“I have seven granddaughters … second-class citizens overnight,” Evers says, referring to the state’s abortion ban.
BREAKING in Wisconsin: Janet Protasiewicz defeats Dan Kelly in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, flipping control of the state's highest court to liberals for the first time in 15 years.
Kathryn Rogers has lived — and voted — in eastern Dane County for more than 50 years. Now, she's 82 and the president is trying to throw out her ballot.
"There aren't enough adjectives to describe what I'm thinking," she told me.