Hughes drops out of Gov. race

QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Democrats cannot do it alone, nor should we try to.”

– Missy Hughes, announcing she was dropping her bid for Wisconsin governor, endorsing Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez and calling “a broad coalition of voters” the key to Democratic victory in November.

Missy Hughes suspended her campaign for Wisconsin governor Monday and endorsed Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez in the August Democratic primary. The former Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. CEO, called Rodriguez “the best candidate we can put forward” and the key to a winning coalition for the Democrats. Erik Gunn reports.

Making her second try for the Democratic nomination for governor, Sen. Kelda Roys is pointing to a long list of plans and bills that she’s worked on in the state Legislature. “It's a big differentiator in this primary that I have by far the most experience in and around state government,” she tells Baylor Spears, in the latest of our profiles looking at the major contenders for the governor’s mansion in the upcoming August primary.

As the Trump administration endorses new coal-fired power plants and calls for repairing outdated plants, University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist Jonathan Patz warns in a commentary that the federal government is going in the wrong direction — ignoring threats to both public health and the environment in return for a power source that is more expensive and less reliable than many cleaner sources.

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