Women Find Few Voting Violations in Wisconsin
The Wisconsin League of Women Voters reported scattered probable violations on November 7 but concluded Wisconsin elections were generally well conducted. Violations cited include electioneering near polling places, sample ballot display issues, line voting at closing, uneven poll worker parity, curtains for booths, and absentee ballot counting. Over 600 members from 26 leagues participated, with Gov Lucey and Atty Gen Warren endorsing the monitoring program.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin League of Women Voters
Wisconsin
League
Patrick J. Lucey
Robert Warren
Wisconsin GOP merges education panel with health committee
Wisconsin Senate Republicans failed to secure a chairman for the education committee and merged it into a new health, education and welfare panel. Sen. James Devitt is expected to head the new committee, after tentative approval by Sen. Gerald Lorge. The education chairmanship had drawn no takers amid recent election setbacks for previous chairs.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Senate Republicans
James Devitt
R-Greenfield
Devitt
Gerald Lorge
Bear Creek
Senate Committee On Committees
Education
Raymond Heinzen
Marshfield
Holger Rasmussen
R Spooner
Peter P. Carr
Janesville
Lorge
GOP
Senate
Hearing scheduled on take over plan for EZ Paintr
Jeff Bartell said hearings begin January 9 on Newell Companies plan to buy 250000 EZ Paintr shares to gain control of the Milwaukee firm. EZ Painitz board voted December 9 to resist. Newell is Freeport Illinois based. Other items note GOP Senate caucus plans and committee chairs. Two La Crosse residents graduate UW Milwaukee with MS degrees.
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Madison, Wis
Wisconsin
Jeffrey Bartell
Freeport, Ill
EZ Paintr Corp
Milwaukee
Bartell
Newell Companies Inc
Freeport
EZ Pavitz
State considers licensing unit for hospitals and nursing homes
Governor’s Task Force on Health endorses a 304 page plan to create a regulatory body to license hospitals and nursing homes and to oversee quality of care and pricing. The report, led by David Carley, splits over abortion with Dennis Purtell opposing the draft’s social abortion stance.
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Madison
Wis
Governor's Task Force On Health
David Carley
Dennis J
Earl Thayer
State Medical Society
Prisoners Escape Fox Lake Prison By Cutting Fences
Three inmates escaped from Fox Lake medium security prison after cutting holes in two fences. Bruce Brandl 38 Wayne Bransted 36 and Billy Joe Atchley 26 were missing after 4 a.m. They allegedly used a jack to pry cement blocks and wire cutters to breach fences. A green 1966 farm truck was taken from a nearby farm. Brandl Bransted and Atchley held prior convictions including armed robbery and murder.
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Fox Lake
Wis
John Gagnon
Gagnon
Bruce Brandl
Wayne Bransted
Billy Joe Atchley
Brandl
Dane
Milwaukee
Bransted
Brown
Atchley
Columbia County
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Gordon Roseleip
Darlington
Roger Murphy
Waukesha
Everett Bidwell
Portage
Ernest Keppler
Sheboygan
Clifford Krueger
Merrill
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Reuben la Fave
Oconto
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Health Education and Welfare
University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee
Terence Muehlenkamp
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School of Education
M. Robidioux
Library and Information Science
Ben Franklin
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Susan Kay Phillips
Robert Durkin
Milwaukee Labor Council Afc-Cio
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Bob Klein
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Klein & Son, Inc
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