Elections

A week after booking a seven-figure TV ad buy in Wisconsin’s high-stakes Supreme Court election, a political action group tied to Elon Musk has canceled one social media ad that featured the wrong person.

The School District of Mauston asked voters to exceed the state-imposed revenue limit by $1.75 million annually for the next four years. The referendum passed on Tuesday with around 66 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results.

Calling for a significant investment in kids from preschool to college, Gov. Tony Evers proposed a budget Tuesday that would invest heavily in education, increasing overall state spending by billions of dollars in the process.

Wisconsinites are heading to the polls in the Feb. 18 election. Statewide, voters will narrow down the number of candidates in a primary race for state superintendent. In some communities, voters will see local races and proposals on their ballots, as well.

With Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election on track to be the most expensive judiciary election in history, neither candidate has pledged to recuse themselves from hearing cases involving the political parties backing their races.

Later this spring, Wisconsin voters will be kicking off a six-year spree of annual state Supreme Court elections. 

Liberal candidate Susan Crawford continues to out-raise her conservative opponent Brad Schimel in a race that will decide control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

WPR interviewed each of the candidates. The top two will advance to a general election on April 1.

Running for mayor are City Council President Chris Kahlow, former journalist and longtime business advocate Vicki Markussen, local realtor Ellie McLoone and nonprofit executive and former La Crosse School Board member Shaundel Washington-Spivey. 

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that the state’s top election official can keep her job despite Republican attempts to remove her from office.