Wisconsin Right Now

Tony Evers celebrated his victory after winning a second term as Wisconsin governor early Wednesday morning by telling his supporters that some people called him boring during the campaign, but he said it didn’t matter. “You know what Wisconsin? As it turns out, boring wins,” Evers said. Evers comfortably beat Republican Tim Michels, grabbing 51% of the vote. Evers said Democrats “showed up” on Election Day. “You showed up for reproductive rights and the freedom for you and your neighbors to make their own health care decisions,” the governor said during his victory speech. “You showed-up for our kids, our educators, and our public schools…You showed up for LGBT folks and trans kids who want to be safe and who they are in our state. You showed up for conservation, for clean energy, to take climate change seriously, and a future that doesn’t treat protecting our environment and good-paying jobs like they are mutually exclusive.” Michels’ concession speech was brief, more of an...

It’s all over but the official final count in Wisconsin’s race for U.S. Senate. Democrat Mandela Barnes conceded the race Wednesday morning. "Unfortunately, we didn’t get over the finish line this time," Barnes told reporters. "But just because we didn’t get across the finish line that doesn’t mean that it’s over." Barnes added "I've fought the good fight. I've run my race. I've kept the faith." Barnes’ concession came after the last votes were counted in Milwaukee County early Wednesday morning. Republican U.S. Senator Ron Johnson said while the vote total is not official yet, there are not enough votes for Barnes to snag a last-second victory. "There is no path mathematically for Lt. Gov. Barnes to overcome his 27,374 vote deficit. This race is over," Johnson said Wednesday morning. Johnson went to bed earlier Wednesday telling his supporters the same thing. “This race is over,” he said. Johnson’s victory keeps Wis...

The new victim of re-offending paroled rapist Kenneth Moffett, of Appleton, is courageously speaking out because she wants to help other victims so other people do not suffer the same trauma. Anna Baxter reached out to Wisconsin Right Now on Tuesday and described the horrific attack she endured from parolee Kenneth Moffett this September, periodically breaking down in tears as she called on the system to treat rapists more harshly and keep them in prison. She shared photos of her injuries. [caption id="attachment_91776" align="alignleft" width="217"] Kenneth Moffett[/caption] Kenneth Moffett, 58 was charged on September 23, 2022, with the strangulation and suffocation of Baxter, and one count of false imprisonment, both felonies, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Wisconsin Right Now from Outagamie County. The crime is almost a mirror image of the rape he was convicted of in 1998. The Appleton man was paroled this June by Gov. Tony Eve...

The Racine County GOP, in an emergency meeting, suspended the membership of Republican write-in candidate Adam Steen, the day before the Assembly election. The state Party's chair Paul Farrow previously told WRN the party would investigate county parties' funding of Steen's write-in campaign against Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos. " The Racine GOP has suspended Adam Steen's membership pending a full investigation of possible campaign finance violations," the Racine County GOP said in a statement on Nov. 7, 2022. The action comes after an exclusive Wisconsin Right Now report about the behavior of three northern Wisconsin county parties. The Racine Journal-Times then write a story that cited WRN's reporting. The chair of the Langlade County GOP in northern Wisconsin is on audio saying he wants to "wash" money through a county party from Donald Trump's Save America PAC to Steen. The chair told Wisconsin Right Now he should h...

A judge will not delay counting military ballots in Wisconsin. A Waukesha County judge on Monday refused to sequester military ballots until they can be verified. I felt that that was a drastic remedy, that I felt that it was at least at a minimum a temporary disenfranchisement of our military voters’ votes to say, 'let’s put them on hold and let’s figure out after the fact whether or not there’s bad votes cast,'” Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Maxwell said in his ruling from the bench. State Rep. Janel Brandtjen, R-Menomonee Falls, asked the judge to intervene after she got three fake military ballots in the mail last week. She said she wanted to make sure that only military members were casting military ballots. Wisconsin law allows military members to request a ballot online without having to register first or show any kind of voter ID. The Thomas More Society joined the case as well, asking the judge for a temporary restraining order. The judge’s decision...

Throughout the Wisconsin midterm election, the Democrats and news media have often operated in lockstep, even furthering lies, especially those pushed by Gov. Tony Evers and AG Josh Kaul. In an effort to educate voters, here we round up some of the top media and/or Democratic lies going into Tuesday's Nov. 8 election. Here are the top lies: 1. That Michels Corp. has no black employees working in management [FALSE!] This utterly false whopper was delivered by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Corri Hess to Tony Evers right before the election, wrapped in a nice little bow. But it's not true. The newspaper quietly added a major retraction into the story, admitting that they confused a document relating to a single subsidiary with the entire company. But the damage was done, and they didn't run the correction as big as the initial false story, which their reporters amplified on social media. We found black managers at Michels Corp. in a couple of minutes of sc...

The slivers of information that Reince Priebus is seeing in Wisconsin have him expecting Republican wins up and down the ballot. Priebus, who used to lead both the Wisconsin Republican Party and the RNC, told Jay Weber on News Talk 1130 WISN Monday that data collected by both organizations show independent and undecided voters breaking for Republicans. “They are leaning overwhelmingly to Tim Michels and Ron Johnson,” Priebus explained. “When given the choice between Tony Evers and Mandela Barnes on the issues of education and crime – and in the case of Ron Johnson, inflation, gas, groceries – all of these things that are at the forefront of voters’ minds, by a longshot the Republicans are doing much better.” Priebus says he doesn’t have an early or absentee vote count in the state, but said Republicans appear to be doing better than in 2020 when there was a flood of Democrats who voted early. Priebus said Republicans, by and large, do most of their voting on Election Day. Pol...