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In a deleted podcast, Republican Attorney General Candidate Ryan Owens said a "potential coverup here is ongoing" by President Donald Trump and his administration regarding the Ukraine call that provoked Trump's impeachment. UW-Madison released three of four missing podcasts on Sept. 30, the day after Wisconsin Right Now broke the story that they were removed from the Internet. UW-Madison has been unable to unearth the fourth missing podcast, at least so far, a 2019 conversation that Owens had with Never Trumper Charlie Sykes. Wisconsin Right Now has filed an open records request for that podcast. The three released podcasts were conversations between Owens and Never Trump political consultant Mike Murphy; a conversation he had with Professor Ken Mayer, whose syllabus became controversial because it contained an anti-Trump line; and a conversation with Scott Coenen, who heads a conservative renewable energy group. You can listen to the discussion with Coenen here , w...

By Ryan Owens Men who beat and rape women should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and not be allowed to prey on them again. Certainly, government officials should not go out of their way to help the abusers. But that’s precisely what Attorney General  Josh Kaul is doing  — he is demanding that the  Wisconsin Supreme Court  force a company to hire a man convicted of eight counts of  sexual assault, strangulation, and battery . In a fit of rage, Derrick Palmer threw his girlfriend to the floor, strangled, and tried to suffocate her. And then raped her. On another day, he hit her in the nose with the palm of his hand so hard he turned her face black and blue. And in a different fit of rage, he strangled her, beat her with a belt, and raped her. After spending two and a half years behind bars for his horrific crimes, Palmer applied to a company named Cree Lighting to be a Lighting Specialist. The job involved helping clients select lighting schemes. It sometimes requi...

Republican Attorney General candidate Ryan Owens slammed AG Josh Kaul for "dangerous" delays at the state crime lab after a Wisconsin Right Now investigation revealed that, in multiple key areas, Kaul is taking longer than Republican AG Brad Schimel to process important evidence needed to get criminals off the street. " Wisconsin Right Now published an eye-opening article presenting numerous failures of the Josh Kaul administration. Failure to work with the legislature on rape kit reform, an inefficient and underperforming state crime lab, and a hollowed-out Department of Justice were just a few issues addressed in the piece," Owens, a political science professor at UW-Madison, wrote in a press release. Ryan Owens criticized Kaul "for his inability to usher in rape kit reform  earlier this year in his op-ed published in the Cap Times," the release says. Owens went on Vikki McKenna's radio show and said: " Things under Josh Kaul, are de...

In a podcast analyzing Evers' Safer at Home actions, Ryan Owens criticized people "on the right" who are "saying the governor is a tyrant and all this," calling it "that nonsense." Republican Attorney General primary candidate Ryan Owens, who is a political science professor at UW-Madison, hasn’t appeared on a court case since at least 2005, and his campaign could only come up with 10 court cases he's ever been involved in outside of friend of the court briefs - none criminal cases. In some of those 10 cases, he was giving advice and doing research for an old law firm, not appearing in court as the attorney of record. In other words, he was helping other lawyers with their cases. He's never prosecuted or handled a criminal case in court. Furthermore, in four of the 10 cases his campaign provided, Ryan Owens is not listed as an attorney of record in court records for them, Wisconsin Right Now found. Four of the other cases are administra...