Thursday, October 15: Tiffany woos Waukesha, Evers tours new youth prison, why competitive bidding won’t help some patients, Dems unveil a victory agenda, inflation surges, pilot error cited in Tiffany plane crash, what’s next for No Kings organizers
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“He is everywhere. You would think he's running for a local office in Waukesha County.”
– State Rep. Adam Neylon, a Waukesha County Republican, on Tom Tiffany’s campaigning in Waukesha to encourage GOP voters to turn out on Election Day.
Tom Tiffany throws a signed football into the crowd gathered in Stein’s Aircraft Services in Waukesha for the get-out-the-vote rally hosted by Hunter Nation, a national nonprofit for hunters, anglers and outdoor enthusiasts. (Photo by Baylor Spears/Wisconsin Examiner)
In an appearance with Republican candidate for governor Tom Tiffany, former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre spent the majority of his time on stage in Waukesha on Tuesday night talking about his time playing football, then urged anyone not planning to vote to be sure to cast a ballot. “You can't bitch if you don't vote,” Favre told the crowd. Baylor Spears reports from the campaign event.
Gov. Tony Evers toured a new Milwaukee juvenile facility on Wednesday along with Department of Corrections leaders, closing another chapter in the troubled history of the Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake youth prisons. Isiah Holmes joined the walk-through of the new facility, which will house 32 boys in custody of the DOC.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants to subject ostomy supplies, needed by patients who have gone through special surgery that requires their waste to collect in a pouch outside their body, to competitive bidding in the name of cutting costs and curbing fraud. In a commentary, Scott Wuerch of Eau Claire writes that the plan could harm patients like him.
As Democrats look to take back the U.S. House or Senate — or both — in November, they face a slew of pressing policy debates, including healthcare, immigration, voting rights, the war in Iran, oversight, education and beyond and vow to reverse many of President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans’ actions since January 2025. Members of our Washington bureau team round up the agenda that party leaders are advancing.
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Gov. Tony Evers looks at different rooms inside the Southeast Regional Care Center for Youth. (Photo by Isiah Holmes/Wisconsin Examiner)
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