Brewers celebration, election jitters

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“I love it, to feel it together and just enjoy,”

– Laura Toburen, who drove down from the city of Greenwood in Clark County to see the Brewers’ victory parade with her Milwaukee resident daughter and grandkids

Wisconsin celebrates as Brewers win the World Series

Thousands of people lined the streets in Milwaukee Friday to welcome home the World Series champion Milwaukee Brewers. Henry Redman reports on the parade and the mood in Milwaukee as fans celebrated the end of more than a half century of waiting for a championship team.

Redman and Baylor Spears followed the action this week as the Brewers won the Series, with Redman reporting from a sold-out American Family Field during Game 4 and Spears covering the Game 5 victory and reactions around the state.

In a commentary, Editor Ruth Conniff discusses what the Brewers’ win means to Wisconsin, how it provided welcome relief from a fraught election season, and what it says about the possibility of moving beyond our fractious, sour politics.

Tiffany makes his closing argument and Crowley pulls ahead

Dozens of Republican voters, clad in a mix of GOP red and Brewer navy blue, crowded into Whiskey Run Distillery in New Glarus to hear U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, the Republican candidate for governor of Wisconsin, make his closing argument Monday night. Henry Redman reports on Tiffany’s “common sense” bus tour.

Tiffany proposed a bill of rights for parents and teachers, which includes requiring parental permission for students who want to change their names and pronouns at school and banning transgender students from bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity. Baylor Spears has that story, as well as coverage of a rally for David Crowley with Kamala Harris, who focused her message on women struggling with high costs.

Spears also digs into the latest Marquette University Law School poll, which showed Crowley opening up a wider lead over Tiffany as independents moved toward Crowley. Crowley also raised more money than Tiffany in the latest reporting period, Spears reports, but Tiffany had significantly more money overall.

High stakes in lower profile, downballot contests

Erik Gunn covers the race for lieutenant governor, where there is a huge ideological divide between the candidates, Republican David Varnam, a former small-town mayor and one-time staffer at a conservative Christian policy organization and Sarah Godlewski, a high-profile Democratic politician who has held two statewide offices.

Gunn also interviews the candidates for secretary of state, including Democrat JoCasta Zamarippa and Pete Karas of the Green Party, both of whom say they will focus on the specific duties of the office. Republican candidate Jay Schroeder, in contrast, has centered his campaign on taking back control of elections for the office and says he wants to eliminate the Wisconsin Elections Commission. Gunn digs into Schroeder’s claims about election integrity.

Escalating pressure on elections officials prompts worries

Subpoenas for California elections officials demanded a host of information, from how officials responded to warnings that the Trump administration had identified 20,000 suspected noncitizen voters to how they screen for unlawful voting. Among the demands: any records suggesting “someone has aided and/or abetted an alien voting in a federal election.” Jonathan Shorman reports on the Trump administration’s escalating pressure campaign.

The Trump administration’s sweeping efforts to combat alleged noncitizen voting and assert authority over elections came under intense scrutiny in courtrooms across the country on Thursday, as Democrats and voting rights groups decried federal election interference, Shorman reports.

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