By M.D. Kittle - As the state Senate prepares to vote on whether to fire him, embattled Ethics Commission interim administrator Brian Bell is responding to one senator’s pointed questions. Read More John Doe Questions Remain Before Tuesday’s Senate Confirmation Votes
John Doe Questions Remain Before Tuesday’s Senate Confirmation Votes
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GOP-Led Senate Rejects Political Speech Chiefs, But John Doe Battle Far From Over
By M.D. Kittle - After a lengthy and heated debate Tuesday, the Republican-controlled Senate effectively sent Wisconsin’s embattled political speech administrators packing. Read More GOP-Led Senate Rejects Political Speech Chiefs, But John Doe Battle Far From Over
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Government Showdown: Elections Commission Defies Senate, Reappoints Haas
By M.D. Kittle - Rejecting the Senate’s rejection, the state Elections Commission voted 4-2 Wednesday to appoint (or reappoint) interim administrator Michael Haas as interim administrator - at least through April. Read More Government Showdown: Elections Commission Defies Senate, Reappoints Haas
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MacIver News Minute: Why The Senate Rejected Bell and Haas Confirmations
For Republican members of the state Senate, the decision to reject the confirmations of Brian Bell and Michael Haas came down to a loss of faith in the two bureaucrats, who were both employees of the deeply partisan Government Accountability Board during the infamous John Doe investigations. Read More MacIver News Minute: Why The Senate Rejected Bell and Haas Confirmations
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Ethics Commission Chair Calls For Impeachment Of John Chisholm, Father Of John Doe
By M.D. Kittle - In a surprising move - in a government abuse saga with plenty of twists and turns - the Democrat who chairs the bipartisan state Ethics Commission on Thursday called for Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm’s impeachment as he likened Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald to Joseph McCarthy. Read More Ethics Commission Chair Calls For Impeachment Of John Chisholm, Father Of John Doe
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Ethics Chair Calls For Chisholm’s Removal Over John Doe (Video Report)
Ethics Chair David Halbrooks is the only high profile Democrat to criticize the John Doe investigation. Not only that, but he's the only public official to demand Gov. Walker and the Assembly take steps to remove John Chisholm as Milwaukee DA for orchestrating John Doe. He says party affiliation should be factor, and the state needs to make sure nothing like John Doe can ever happen again. Halbrooks knows first hand what John Doe entailed. Chisholm used it as an excuse to seize Halbrooks emails about a case that involved Chisholm. MNS' Bill Osmulski has more. Read More Ethics Chair Calls For Chisholm’s Removal Over John Doe (Video Report)
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John Doe Judge Sets Hearing On Contempt Of Court Request
By M.D. Kittle - A Brown County judge has been tapped to preside over the legal issues left by Wisconsin’s infamous John Doe investigation, including Attorney General Brad Schimel’s request to initiate contempt of court proceedings against nine agents of the unconstitutional probe. Read More John Doe Judge Sets Hearing On Contempt Of Court Request
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Elections Commission Continues To Defy Will Of Senate In John Doe’s Shadow
By M.D. Kittle - Despite warnings by fellow commissioner Dean Knudson that the defiant elections law agency is quickly losing its “window” to name a new interim administrator, the commission on Wednesday voted 4-2 to table Knudson’s motion to move on. Read More Elections Commission Continues To Defy Will Of Senate In John Doe’s Shadow
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‘The Senate Did Its Job’– Q & A with Elections Commissioner Dean Knudson
By M.D. Kittle - Elections Commission member Dean Knudson talks about the battle of wills between the commission and the Senate in this MacIver News Service Q & A. Read More ‘The Senate Did Its Job’ – Q & A with Elections Commissioner Dean Knudson
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New John Doe Judge Wants To Know What He’s Empowered To Do
By M.D. Kittle - The newly appointed judge who could decide whether agents of Wisconsin’s infamous John Doe investigation should be punished for their conduct wants to know what his authority is - where it begins and where it ends. Read More New John Doe Judge Wants To Know What He’s Empowered To Do
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Lawmakers Roll Out Bill Creating Committee To Investigate GAB
By M.D. Kittle - The time for the state Legislature to investigate the investigators is drawing near. A new bill by Sen. Dave Craig and Rep. Joe Sanfelippo would create a bicameral legislative committee - with subpoena power - to look into the conduct and activities of the former Government Accountability Board and staff. Read More Lawmakers Roll Out Bill Creating Committee To Investigate GAB
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Attorney General To John Doe Judge: You Have The Power To Deal With Doe Abuses
By M.D. Kittle - John Doe agent Dropbox and email accounts on third-party servers containing secret, illegally seized John Doe records were still active, according to a letter by Attorney General Brad Schimel to a judge. Read More Attorney General To John Doe Judge: You Have The Power To Deal With Doe Abuses
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MacIver News Minute: Time To Investigate The John Doe Investigators
A new bill being circulated in the Legislature by Sen. Dave Craig and Rep. Joe Sanfelippo would establish a bicameral committee with the rarely used subpoena power. The aim would be to force slippery John Doe investigators and former GAB agents to sit before lawmakers and answer questions - under oath. Read More MacIver News Minute: Time To Investigate The John Doe Investigators
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John Doe Agents Get Legal Counsel – At Taxpayer Expense
By M.D. Kittle - Three former agents in Wisconsin’s infamous “John Doe II” investigation now have attorneys representing them - at state taxpayer expense. Read More John Doe Agents Get Legal Counsel – At Taxpayer Expense
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Former Elections Chief Haas Ends Standoff With GOP-Led Senate
By M.D. Kittle - Long-time state government bureaucrat Michael Haas has decided to end his personal resistance campaign against the Republican-controlled Senate, a move that would appear to conclude a month’s-long constitutional crisis. Read More Former Elections Chief Haas Ends Standoff With GOP-Led Senate
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Assembly Democrat Unveils Roadmap to Permanently Change Constitution
By Bill Osmulski - Sweeping changes to Wisconsin's Bill of Rights would undo Act 10, eliminate voter residency requirements, and bring back the GAB. Read More Assembly Democrat Unveils Roadmap to Permanently Change Constitution
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Peter Strzok, John Doe, and Investigative Tyranny
Special Guest Perspective By Dan O'Donnell - The smirk was unmistakable; the defiant, self-satisfied smugness of a man who knew the extent of the abuse of his power and dared the world to punish him for it. FBI agent Peter Strzok's performance in last week's joint hearing of the House's Judiciary and Oversight Committees was less fact-finding than it was character-revealing. And in Wisconsin, it was all too familiar... Read More Peter Strzok, John Doe, and Investigative Tyranny
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Former Elections Chief Hanging Around Six Months After Stepping Down
By M.D. Kittle - In late February, following a bruising confirmation battle in the state Senate, Wisconsin Elections Commission chief Michael Haas offered the bureaucrat’s version of Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s “Old Soldiers” speech. Read More Former Elections Chief Hanging Around Six Months After Stepping Down
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Mike Haas And The Wisconsin Deep State
MacIver investigative reporter Matt Kittle joins Vicki McKenna on News/Talk 1310 WIBA to discuss Mike Haas, former Elections Commission head and John Doe villain, who retains a job at his old agency despite having been effectively fired by the Senate for his role in the infamous John Doe probes. It's the Wisconsin deep state - and it's all very familiar to anyone watching what's going on in Washington. Read More Mike Haas And The Wisconsin Deep State
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News And Views: Michael Haas, J Street, And Solving The Rape Kit Backlog
MacIver investigative reporter Matt Kittle joins Oliver Burrows on WXCO in Wausau for their weekly update. This week they discuss Michael Haas, the John Doe bureaucrat who refuses to leave his state job, the Washington D.C. group that backs ultra-liberal policies and lefty candidates in Wisconsin, and the decades-old problem of untested sexual assault kits in Wisconsin. Read More News And Views: Michael Haas, J Street, And Solving The Rape Kit Backlog
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