Oops, He Did It Again: Rep. Bob Donovan’s Campaign Finance Scam Not His First, Just His Latest Ethically Questionable Episode
Rep. Bob Donovan’s Campaign Finance Scam Not His First, Just His Latest Ethically Questionable Episode
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Rep. Bob Donovan’s Campaign Finance Coverup Raises the Question: Where’d the Money Go?
A recent media report uncovered Donovan has paid himself nearly $6,000 from his campaign to offset his housing costs.
ICYMI: State Representative Bob Donovan Busted for Shady Housing Scam
Bob Donovan’s campaign finance reports revealed he paid himself $850 every month for what he called “staff lodging” after renting an apartment.
A Better Wisconsin Together Thanks Governor Evers for Years of Serving Wisconsin, Standing up for Our Rights and Freedoms
Through his commitment to making the everyday lives of Wisconsinites better - whether it was repairing miles of roads and bridges or always standing up for safe and legal abortion care and the rights and freedoms of LGBTQ+ youth - Governor Evers has made sure Wisconsin is set up for success, no matter what comes next.
ICYMI: New York Based Crypto Bros Make Million Dollar Transaction With Contributions to Right-Wing Wisconsin Politician Bill Berrien
According to the latest state campaign finance reports, the political action committee (PAC) of recently announced right-wing Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Bill Berrien received $1 million in contributions from the Winklevoss brothers of New York. The right-wing twin brothers made millions in a lawsuit alleging they were the original inventors of what is now Facebook and subsequently set themselves up in the cryptocurrency business.
A Better Wisconsin Together Reacts to Wisconsin Supreme Court Shutting Down Another GOP Power Grab
In a ruling released this morning, the progressive majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court shut down yet another power grab from Wisconsin Republicans. The decision comes after GOP lawmakers overstepped and stopped a ban on harmful conversion therapy for Wisconsin kids and blocked updates to building and construction safety codes for years on end.
A Better Wisconsin Together Releases 4th of July Statement Demanding Lawmakers Stand Up For Our Freedoms
This year, A Better Wisconsin Together urges all of our elected lawmakers to not only reflect on what the 4th of July holiday represents, but to take direct action and stand up for Wisconsinites in the face of these attacks on our rights and freedoms.
Governor Evers Fighting for Families and Standing Up to Republican Extremism Delivers Compromise State Budget
MADISON, Wis. — Early this morning, Governor Tony Evers signed the 2025-27 state budget. That Wisconsin now has a budget – after months of state legislative Republicans’ partisan political posturing, infighting, and multiple walkouts on negotiations – is a testament to Gov. Evers’ leadership and his commitment to doing his best to do right by […]
Wisconsinites Want Lower Costs, Property Tax Savings, Support for Public Schools. Assembly Republicans Do Not.
Republicans in the state Assembly rejected amendments to provide property tax savings, deliver lower costs for hard working Wisconsinites, support public education, clean up water pollution, support veterans and farmers, improve public safety, and more.
‘No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, and No’
Republicans in the state Senate had the same one word answer when given the chance to pass a better state budget for hard working Wisconsinites today: “No.”
Wisconsin Supreme Court Protects Abortion Rights, Affirms Wisconsinites’ Freedom to Make Own Medical Decisions
The Wisconsin State Supreme Court struck down efforts to use an 1849 law as a near-total abortion ban.
Ron Johnson Joins Senate GOP in Making Republicans’ Big Bad Budget Bill Even Worse
Ron Johnson and his fellow Republicans have taken a bad, unpopular bill and made it worse.
A Better Wisconsin Together Releases Statement on 2025-27 State Budget Agreement
Today’s announcement of a budget agreement that begins to address priorities like delivering cost savings for working families, supporting public schools and child care, and investing in health care is a testament to the hard work and dedication of Governor Evers and legislative Democrats.
A Better Wisconsin Together Releases Statement of Support for UW Nurses, SEIU Wisconsin
We stand in solidarity with UW nurses and SEIU Wisconsin in their pursuit of collective bargaining rights and the freedom to have a say in their workplace, and we applaud them for standing up and demanding their basic workplace rights be honored and recognized.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules to Protect Clean Water, Hold Polluters Accountable
In a 5-2 ruling released this morning, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has decided that Wisconsinites deserve clean water and corporate polluters who contaminate our waterways must be held accountable under the law.
Wisconsin Republicans Failing to Do Most Pressing Job – Pass a State Budget
With one just week to go until the end of the state’s fiscal year and the deadline to pass a new state budget, Republican state lawmakers have no scheduled meetings for the budget writing Joint Committee on Finance and no action scheduled in either the Senate or Assembly to debate or vote on a state budget bill. The lack of legislative action comes on the heels of Senate Republicans walking out of budget talks with Gov. Tony Evers for a second time late last week.
Support for Abortion Rights Remains Strong in Wisconsin on Third Anniversary of MAGA U.S. Supreme Court Justices Overturning Roe v. Wade
On the third anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, and as polling continues to show that a majority of Wisconsin voters support safe and legal abortion care, A Better Wisconsin Together is urging Wisconsin Republicans to listen to their constituents and end their relentless attacks on our reproductive rights once and for all.
On Juneteenth, Wisconsin Lawmakers Must Stand Up Against MAGA Efforts to Erase Black History
As we celebrate today, we also are reminded that the work is not done. From attempts to ban the Juneteenth flag from being flown in Wisconsin and censor what can be taught in our public schools, to scrubbing Black history from government websites and signing an executive order attacking the Museum of African American History, Trump and his Republican allies in Wisconsin are blatantly trying to erase Black history, undo the progress made, and stifle the progress yet to come.
Senate Republicans Seek to Stifle Wisconsinites’ Fundamental Freedom to Speak Out
Instead of respecting our fundamental freedom to voice our opinions or doing their job to pass a state budget, Republicans in the state Senate are looking to use our government as a weapon against their fellow Wisconsinites.
Wisconsin State Supreme Court Issues Unanimous Rebuke of Republican Power Grab
The Wisconsin Supreme Court today unanimously struck down part of a partisan Republican power grab adopted by the state legislature in their unprecedented post-election sore loser session in December 2018. Today’s action by the state high court reverses the earlier decision authored by right-wing Appeals Court Judge Maria Lazar, and joined by Judge Shelley Grogan, to uphold the GOP’s actions.
And Then There Were Two: Second State Senate Republican Calls for Budget Boycott
In a social media post yesterday, Republican state Senator and former state Senate President Chris Kapenga expressed both his opposition to a budget plan being crafted by his fellow Republicans and his preference to go without any state budget for the next two years. Kapenga joins his colleague Sen. Steve Nass, one of the longest currently serving legislative Republicans, in calling for a budget boycott.
A Better Wisconsin Together Releases Statement on Tragic News of Minnesota State Lawmakers Targeted by Apparent Political Violence
We are heartbroken for the families and loved ones of the victims of the targeted, apparently politically motivated violence that occurred in Minnesota. The loss of life is tragic and we condemn the abhorrent violence directed at public servants.
A Better Wisconsin Together Stands in Solidarity with Wisconsinites Speaking Out Against Trump Administration
A Better Wisconsin Together stands in solidarity with everyone exercising their right to use their voices in Wisconsin and beyond to build a better future for all of us, no matter where we were born or what we look like.
Republican Cuts to Proposed Public School Funding Shift Costs to Local Taxpayers … Again
The impacts of Republicans’ longstanding and continuing refusal to support public education are stunning. In just the last two years -2024 and 2025 - school districts have been forced to go to referendums in 96 of the 99 state Assembly districts.
ICYMI: New Poll Shows Wisconsin Voters Overwhelmingly Support Abortion, Access to Reproductive Healthcare
A media report on recent polling indicates that a strong majority of registered voters in the Badger State (74%) support abortion access and believe that decisions on abortion should be made by individual patients in consultation with their doctor - not politicians. The survey also shows that Wisconsin voters overwhelmingly (69%) support Planned Parenthood.
Cost Savings for Families and Protections for Consumers Blocked by Republicans in State Legislature
These latest missed opportunities come on the heels of Republican legislative leaders’ walkout of budget discussions with Gov. Tony Evers last week.
Wisconsin Republicans Abandon Their Jobs and Wisconsin Families
By storming out of state budget negotiations and refusing to find bipartisan compromise, Wisconsin Republicans are abandoning more than just their jobs. They’re abandoning Wisconsin families at an already uncertain time.
A Better Wisconsin Together Releases Statement of Support for Meriter Nurses
We stand in solidarity with the nearly 1,000 SEIU Meriter Hospital nurses who are standing up for workplace and patient safety, fair wages, and more
OP-ED: Wisconsin Republicans Leaving Veterans Behind
Wisconsin Republican Congressman Derrick Van Orden recently made headlines for saying he hopes funding continues to be cut at the Department of Veterans Affairs - and he certainly isn’t the only Wisconsin Republican attacking care for veterans in the Badger State.
A Better Wisconsin Together Calls on Republicans to Support Plan to Save Child Care for Working Families
Just two weeks after Republican lawmakers cut over $400 million in essential child care funding from Governor Evers’ state budget, and one week after child care providers rallied at our state Capitol demanding action, A Better Wisconsin Together is urging GOP legislators to finally do the right thing and pass child care legislation introduced today by their Democratic colleagues.
ICYMI: Senior Senate Republican Calls for Wisconsin GOP to Skip Out on State Budget Duty
Republican State Senator Steve Nass, one of the longest tenured GOP representatives in the Wisconsin State Legislature, took petty partisan politics to a new low today by calling on his colleagues in the legislature to skip out on their jobs and not pass a state budget this year.
Republicans Put Politics Over People in Vote to Remove Over 600 Items from State Budget
Today, Wisconsin Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee voted to erase more than 600 items from state budget consideration, including widely popular provisions that would help working families deal with rising costs, feed hungry kids, fully fund our public schools, and ensure every household in Wisconsin has access to quality affordable health care, child care, clean water, and more.