WisPolitics Capitol Chats

On this week's "Capitol Chats," Dem state treasurer candidate and Wisconsin Heights School Board member Dylan Helmenstine discusses his plans to increase the visibility of the treasurer's office, managing state trust funds and the upcoming primary election.

On this week's "Capitol Chats," Dem state treasurer candidate and Marathon County Supervisor Yee Leng Xiong discusses the upcoming primary election, his plans to increase fiscal transparency and his Hmong heritage.

On this week's "Capitol Chats," Tom Content, executive director of the Citizens Utility Board of Wisconsin, talks about why the consumer advocacy group pushed to require data centers to post billions of dollars of collateral for new power plants, Oracle's lawsuit to weaken those rules, and how utilities are proposing to bill data centers for their power needs.

On this week's "Capitol Chats," physical therapist and GOP candidate for the 5th SD Mike Roberts discusses how he wants to improve health care, reduce the state's property tax burden, and how to pay for increasing police staffing and prison reforms.

On this week's "Capitol Chats," freshman Rep. Ben Franklin, R-De Pere, talks about school funding, bipartisanship, and how he's making the case to voters to grant him a second term.

In this week's Capitol Chats, Fair Wisconsin Executive Director Abigail Swetz talks about the group's work to support LGBTQ+ Wisconsinites, which candidates Fair Wisconsin PAC is backing this fall, and political rhetoric and ads targeting the transgender community.

On this week's "Capitol Chats," De Pere School Board member Brandy Tollefson talks about her campaign for the 88th AD as a Democrat, what she thinks the Legislature can do for public schools and affordability, and what she's doing to distinguish herself from incumbent GOP Rep. Ben Franklin.

On this week's "Capitol Chats," Rep. Todd Novak, R-Dodgeville, says he expects Democrats to take the blame for the failure of the $1.8 billion surplus spending package that failed in the Senate last month, though he said he'd "love to come back with the same deal." Novak, a regular target for Dems, also discussed his election strategy, school funding and the future of GOP leadership in the Assembly.

In this week's Capitol Chats, Rep. Jenna Jacobson, D-Oregon, who is running for the 17th Senate district, explains her vote for a failed $1.8 billion surplus deal, touts her support for education funding and says incumbent GOP Sen. Howard Marklein is "scared" going into his reelection bid.

On this week's "Capitol Chats," UW Law Prof. Robert Yablon breaks down where Wisconsin stands amid the national mid-decade redistricting race and discusses how a pair of lawsuits and a possible Democratic trifecta could decide the future of the state's congressional maps.