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Ukranian sister city aid Mayor of Milwaukee’s Ukrainian sister city pleads for help on Wispolitics program

Oleksandr Markushin, mayor of Milwaukee’s sister city in Irpin, Ukraine, is pleading for assistance after Russian forces destroyed his city just outside the capital of Kyiv.

“We need temporary housing,” Markushin said through an interpreter in an interview on WISN’s “UpFront,” produced in partnership with WisPolitics.com. “We have thousands and thousands of city residents that have no place to live. They’re living in tents.”

Markushin said he survived multiple assassination attempts by Russian forces as Ukrainians fought to regain control of their city. He noted several hundred residents have died and just 20,000 of the city’s 100,000 residents have returned.

“The mayor stayed from day one through the end through liberation day on the city grounds,” the interpreter said, describing what Markushin said. “He actively participated in the military unit that was fighting at the time. At least three times Russian forces, special operation forces, made an attempt to kill, specifically they targeted the mayor.”

Markushin has met virtually with Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson and discussed ways the city can assist.

“We really appreciate the support and are honored to be a sister city with Milwaukee,” Markushin said. “We’re really honored to see the support Milwaukeeans and the whole United States are doing for Ukraine and Irpin. Right now, there is a hospital in Ukraine that almost opened before the war started, and now it’s leveled. We are eagerly restoring the hospital. We’re looking for direct help. We are suggesting between Milwaukee and Irpin to help with equipment with that hospital, equipment that will save lives of Irpinians, the citizens of Irpin. That would be symbolic if the citizens of Milwaukee and Wisconsin can provide that equipment or costs to provide that equipment for the hospital.”

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State GOP adds second endorsement option

Statewide candidates who failed to meet viability thresholds the Wisconsin GOP established will have a second option to become eligible for the party’s endorsement at this month’s convention.

The party’s Executive Committee previously established fundraising requirements for candidates. That included those running for guv or the U.S. Senate having to raise at least $100,000 from a minimum of 1,000 individual donors by March 15 to be considered for the endorsement.

Party officials said the second option will allow candidates to be nominated for the party’s endorsement from the convention floor on May 21.

Under that process, a majority of delegates must be present from the candidate’s home county to nominate the candidate. Two counties from two other congressional districts will also have to do the same for the candidate to be considered for the endorsement.

WI Congressional delegation clashes over Roe v. Wade leak

U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin called for the U.S. Senate to vote on legislation she cosponsored that would guarantee the right to an abortion as U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson argues the issue should be left to states.

The Madison Dem made the call following news the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturn a 1973 decision establishing that right. Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Tuesday the U.S. Senate will vote on the legislation to codify the right to abortion into law but did not specify when a vote would occur.

The bill passed the House in September, and Dems have vowed to take it up in the Senate. But that vote is expected to be symbolic because supporters lack the 60 votes that would be needed to overcome a filibuster.

Baldwin on Twitter charged the Supreme Court with legislating from the bench.

“If #SCOTUS is going to legislate from the bench and turn back the clock 50 years on #RoeVWade, then the Senate needs to pass my Women’s Health Protection Act, and if we need to eliminate the filibuster to get it done, we should do that too. #WHPA,” Baldwin said on Twitter.

Under the Women’s Health Protection Act, governments could not “prohibit abortion services before or after fetal viability when pregnancy is a risk to the patient’s life or health.”

Governments also could not require patients to disclose their reasons for seeking abortion services or limit a health care provider’s ability to “immediately provide abortion services” when a delay risks the patient’s health, among other things.

Johnson, R-Oshkosh, told WisPolitics.com he believes life begins at conception. He also noted his support for the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban abortions after 20 weeks, except in cases of rape, incest or threat to life of the mother.

He added he agrees with Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion that public opinion is sharply split on whether to legalize abortion.

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Judge orders Vos not to destroy records

A Dane County judge has ordered Assembly Speaker Robin Vos not to destroy records related to former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman’s 2020 election probe.

The order, which Dane County Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn said is “effective immediately,” comes after fellow Dane County Judge Frank Remington ordered Gableman not to delete records related to the election investigation as required by law. Gableman’s attorney James Bopp said last month he would object to Remington’s order.

“I’m frankly amazed that I have to say, don’t destroy records that are subject to an open records request or order that to occur,” Bailey-Rihn said on May 4.

The order Bailey-Rihn issued applies to records requested by liberal group American Oversight from June through August 2021. American Oversight attorney Christa Westerberg said the Washington, D.C.-based group has only received 27 pages of records for the period. Westerberg added American Oversight received documents from other sources that the group didn’t receive from the Office of Special Counsel.

Bailey-Rihn said she would hold Vos, R-Rochester, the Assembly and Assembly Chief Clerk Ted Blazel in contempt if more records were destroyed because Gableman had a contract with Vos at the time. Bailey-Rihn said they are the ones responsible for retaining the records during the threemonth period.

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