tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88130116119665017782026-04-18T17:45:08.250-05:00A non-partisan, non-profit citizen's lobby affiliated with national Common Cause. We focus on campaign finance, ethics and lobby reform, open meetings law and other issues concerning the promotion and maintenance of "clean," open, responsive and accountable government.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger904125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813011611966501778.post-69830307237248390052026-02-18T12:47:00.004-06:002026-02-18T12:47:52.609-06:00

Common Cause Wisconsin will update all information in 2026 and going forward at https://www.commoncause.org/wisconsin/. Bookmark this url for everything from CCWI! 

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For release: Thursday - December 18, 2025Image: Hundreds of people came to the Capitol on Thursday, Oct. 28 2021 to testify against the new voting maps drawn by Republican legislative leaders which advocates characterized as ‘gerrymandering 2.0’ | Wisconsin Examiner photo Wisconsin Voters Step Up to Demand Better Politics and Governance2025 will long be remembered as one of the most

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For release: Tuesday - November 4, 2025Written Testimony of Jay Heck Executive Director of Common Cause Wisconsin to the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections Tuesday, November 4, 2025TO: Members of the Assembly Committee on Campaigns and ElectionsFROM: Jay Heck, Executive Director of Common Cause in WisconsinDATE: November 3, 2025RE: Common Cause Wisconsin Statement for the

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For release: Tuesday - October 14, 2025Image: Rally to End Gerrymandering October 16Upcoming Opportunities to Get InvolvedThere has been one and only one thing that has been and is effective this year in standing up to and stopping the encroaching tyranny and ongoing attempted dismemberment of our state and national democratic norms and sensibilities. That thing is active resistance and

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For release: Tuesday - September 23, 2025Image: Wisconsin State CapitolSize of Board Doubled from Six to Twelve at September MeetingCommon Cause Wisconsin (CC/WI), the state’s largest nonpartisan democracy citizens advocacy organization, with nearly 10,000 members and activists in every county and corner of Wisconsin, added six new members to its advisory board at its September 10th quarterly

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For release: Wednesday - September17, 2025Image: Our Wisconsin, Our Constitution The Alternative to Despair and Discouragement is Engagement for Positive ChangeThe profoundly disturbing and almost incomprehensible events of the last week in Utah, earlier this summer in Minnesota, and elsewhere in the nation and in the world can leave us all wondering if there is anything we can do to change

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For release: Thursday - September 4, 2025Image: (WE) Power. Democracy is our common cause SOME THINGS TO DO DURING SEPTEMBER TO KEEP HOPE ALIVE!By any measure, 2025 has been one of the most unsettling and uncertain years any of us has had to endure in recent memory, if not in our lifetime. From the chaotic, destructive and downright cruel way Donald Trump has conducted himself in the White

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Push for mail-in voting, select voting machine ban begins August 19, 2025 - Tim Kowols, Door County Daily News Evers vetoes bill that would have made unpaid court fees a barrier to voting August 13, 2025 - Frank Zufall, Wisconsin Examiner Common Cause Wisconsin celebrates Evers’ veto of “modern-day poll tax” August 13, 2025 - Faye Parks, WORT Community Radio Governor veto of bill

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For release: Thursday - August 21, 2025Image: Virtual Community HearingWhy Wisconsin needs an Independent Redistricting Commission to ensure Fair Voting MapsJoin Common Cause Wisconsin (CCWI) and Fair Maps Coalition (FMC) partners for a virtual town hall on Tuesday, September 9, 2025 beginning at 6:00 PM. The event is free, but you must register to attend the online webinar.REGISTER FOR The

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For release: Tuesday - August 12, 2025Image: Wisconsin State CapitolLegislation to Impose a Poll Tax on Some Voters BlockedOn August 8th Gov. Tony Evers vetoed hyper partisan legislation -- Senate Bill 95 / Assembly Bill 87-- rammed through the Wisconsin Legislature earlier this year that would have prevented people with felony convictions from regaining their constitutional right

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Common Cause weighs in on national “gerrymandering wildfire” July 31, 2025 - Faye Parks, WORT Community Radio How could your voting choices change in the future? July 16, 2025 - Tim Kowols, Door County Daily News The Court ordered fairer maps. Now reformers want to change how they’re drawn in the future July 16, 2025 - Erik Gunn, Wisconsin Examiner Supreme Court case takes deeper

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For release: Wednesday - July 9, 2025Image: Holding Power AccountableThe 4th of July has just passed and Trump’s big, awful bill to destroy the American economy, cut taxes for the wealthiest segment of our society, pour billions into terrorizing all Americans through further weaponizing domestic raids, interrogations, incarceration and deportation of tens of thousands of people all over the

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Wisconsin proposal to require simple explanations of ballot questions needs work, critics say June 16, 2025 - Alexander Shur, Votebeat Exclusive: Big money plan eyes new way to push states further right June 10, 2025 - Alexandria Jacobson, Raw Story

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For release: Tuesday - June 24, 2025Image: Wisconsin Capitol / Photo: E GrunzeWisconsinites from all corners of the state value our freedom to vote. We turn out to vote in record numbers, and that scares some politicians in Madison who know their unpopular political agendas won’t carry the day if we all have a say. So instead of doing the work we need them to do, like ensuring our schools are

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For release: Thursday - June 5, 2025Image: We Power: democracy is our common causeAfter more than four months of national political chaos, confusion, economic disruption and uncertainty, Wisconsinites of good will have every right to feel as if they have been battered and abused by the latest iteration of MAGA and Trumpism as it slashes and burns its way through our state, country and the world.

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Record $100M spent on Wisconsin Supreme Court race raises concerns over judicial independence May 12, 2025 - Tom O'Connor, Wisconsin Examiner Commentary | Will $100M Supreme Court elections be the new normal in Wisconsin? It shouldn’t and doesn’t have to be that way May 5, 2025 - Jay Heck, Wisconsin Examiner

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For release: Monday - May 5, 2025Image: Billionaire businessman Elon Musk arrives for a town hall meeting wearing a cheesehead hat at the KI Convention Center on March 30, 2025 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The town hall is being held in front of the state’s high-profile Supreme Court election between Circuit Court Judge Brad Schimel, who has been financially backed by Musk and endorsed by President

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Misinformation around Wisconsin ballot issues circulates online April 10, 2025 - Bill McCarthy, AFP USA FactCheck The Wisconsin Supreme Court race cost over $100M. Can that be stopped? April 8, 2025 - Andrew Bahl, The Cap Times Social media post distorts ballot shortage in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election April 2, 2025 - Amy Sherman, PolitiFact Analysis: Crawford beats Musk in

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For release: Friday - April 25, 2025  Image: Wisconsin Capitol with a banner overlaid "Holding Power Accountable"We have been busy here at Common Cause Wisconsin (CC/WI) in the aftermath of the historic and pivotal April 1st election — with its unprecedented campaign spending, record voter turnout and decisive rejection of the richest person in the world, Elon Musk, and his failed

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For release: Thursday - April 24, 2025  Image The Wisconsin Budget Logo Statement from Common Cause Wisconsin to the Joint Committee on Finance regarding the 2025-2027 Biennium State BudgetTO: Members of the Joint Committee on Finance FROM: Jay Heck, Executive Director of Common Cause in WisconsinDATE: April 24, 2025RE: Common Cause Wisconsin on 2025-27 Biennium State

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For release: Monday - April 21, 2025Statement from Common Cause Wisconsin to the Joint Committee for Review of Administration Rules regarding Wisconsin Election Commission Rule on Election Observers, CR 24-032TO: Members of the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative RulesFROM: Jay Heck, Executive Director of Common Cause in WisconsinDATE: April 21, 2025RE: Statement from Common Cause

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For release: Wednesday, April 2, 2025Statement of Jay Heck, Common Cause Wisconsin Executive DirectorWisconsin voters turned out to vote in record numbers on and before April 1st and decisively opted for impartial justice and independence from the influence of the world’s richest person and his unprecedented attempt to buy control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. It wasn’t even close.&

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How Wisconsin's high court race became the most expensive in U.S. history March 31, 2025 - CBS Morning Show (video), CBS News Elon’s Musk Taken to Task By His Own AI Tool for ‘Election Bribery’ As He Dangled to $2M In Handouts to Voters Before Crucial Wisconsin Supreme Court Race March 29, 2025 - Christian Boone, Atlanta Black Star Is Elon Musk skirting election law in the Wisconsin

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For release: Monday, March 31, 2025Image: The outside of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Chambers / photo: E Grunze The Whole World is Watching the Most Important Election in the Nation During 2025Tomorrow is April 1st which has long been celebrated as “April Fool’s Day” throughout much of the nation. But on this April 1st in Wisconsin the real fools are those who are eligible to vote and don’t

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For release: Wednesday, March 26, 2025Image: Your Vote Counts lawn sign April 1st is Election Day in WisconsinPresident Donald Trump’s sudden, overbroad and sweeping executive order issued yesterday, just one week before Wisconsin’s nationally important and closely watched State Supreme Court election on April 1st is likely unconstitutional and destined to be rejected by federal and state

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