Wednesday, October 14: Cooke’s pitch to rural voters, Rogers Behavioral Health slapped by NLRB, data center backlash, Trump’s efforts to control voting on the ropes
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“If Cooke can move the rural margins back in her favor even a little bit, then that would go a long way towards helping her win the district.”
– Anthony Chergosky, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, on Rebecca Cooke’s challenge to U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden in Wisconsin’s 3rd CD
Democratic congressional candidate Rebecca Cooke and former U.S. Sen. Jon Tester (D-Montana) appear at an agricultural policy roundtable event at the Eau Claire-area farm Cooke grew up on. (Photo by Henry Redman/Wisconsin Examiner)
At a roundtable on her family’s Eau Claire area farm last week with former Montana Sen. Jon Tester, Democrat Rebecca Cooke argued that if she’s elected to represent Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District, she’ll take on the issues that have been plaguing rural America for decades and work to undo the Trump administration policies that are making those problems worse. Henry Redman reports on her campaign, part of a Democratic effort to recapture rural voters who have turned away from them in recent years.
Rogers Behavioral Health violated federal labor laws when it fired six employees amid a contentious union organizing campaign in Wisconsin, according to a National Labor Relations Board official in a new complaint against the healthcare provider. Erik Gunn has the details.
In the course of a single election cycle, the backlash against data centers has grown from an issue at local planning commission and city council meetings to become a flashpoint in state and federal races across the country. Even longtime data center opponents are surprised, Alex Brown of Stateline reports.
Three weeks before Election Day, the Trump administration’s sprawling project to send sensitive personal information on millions of voters to the Department of Homeland Security has been declared illegal by a federal judge. The decision, issued late last week, marks the latest rebuke of the Trump administration during more than a year of legal confrontations with dozens of states and voting rights groups that have mostly not gone Trump’s way. Jonathan Shorman has the story.
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The West Allis clinic operated by Rogers Behavioral Health is one of two in Wisconsin where employees say they suffered retaliation for seeking union representation. (Rogers Behavioral Health media photo)
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