Crowley slightly up in polls, down in dollars

QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Why on Earth would anyone contribute that amount of money?”

– David Crowley, Democratic candidate for governor of Wisconsin, commenting Wednesday on multi-million-dollar donations to his Republican rival Tom Tiffany

Wisconsin’s race for governor is tight with Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Crowley slightly ahead in the most recent Marquette poll over Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany, but Tiffany way up in fundraising. Baylor Spears has the latest on the contest.

A federal immigration judge ruled Wednesday that Salah Sarsour, president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, can be deported even though the judge rejected the Department of Homeland Security’s accusation that he’d lied on his green card application. Isiah Holmes reports on the ruling, which Sarsour’s attorneys said gave “extreme deference” to a State Department memo invoking a rarely used Cold War provision of immigration law to declare Sarsour’s activism for Palestinian rights a threat to U.S. foreign policy.

A Milwaukee County board committee voted Tuesday to remove controversial Flock license plate reader cameras from the county’s parks. The resolution will be taken up by the full board on Oct. 1. Holmes reports on the debate, including the sheriff department’s case for Flock, and how the vote fits into a larger pattern of communities rejecting the cameras throughout the state.

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