Tag: J.B. Van Hollen

Last week I wrote about news that Ray Taffora, the top deputy to Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, sought direction from Ben Cannatti, the political director of the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) prior to Van Hollen’s attempt to join a lawsuit against the federal health care reform act….

As first reported by One Wisconsin Now and touched on by MadCityMan yesterday, records obtained through open records laws show Ray Taffora, the top deputy to Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, sought direction from Ben Cannatti, the political director of the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) prior to Van…

On Wednesday, Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced the backlog at the state’s DNA crime labs has been successfully addressed. In announcing the successful elimination of the backlog, Van Hollen noted the bi-partisan efforts of the State Legislature to increase funding and add vital staffing positions to the Department…

As Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker and his Republican supporters in the state Legislature seek to have Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen join a lawsuit preventing the provisions of the health care reform legislation recently signed into law from being enacted, Mike Tate, the Chair of the Democratic Party…

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve by now heard of the roughly 12,000 DNA samples that are missing from the state crime lab’s DNA database. Obviously this is a huge problem, and in the case of accused serial killer Walter Ellis, Ellis’ missing DNA could have kept Ellis…

Scott Hassett, the former head of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, has filed paperwork today to challenge Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen in next year’s election. Hassett, a Democrat, filed a campaign registration statement with state election officials, which will allow him to raise campaign money and will enable…

From my emailbox comes word Jason Stephany, Executive Director of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, has made an open records request to determine if Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has instructed state employees at the Wisconsin Department of Justice to engage in a political lobbying campaign involving contacting members…

I’ve written a little bit about my thoughts on gun control, and more specifically, Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen’s advisory memorandum that opined that the open carrying of firearms by citizens in Wisconsin is in fact perfectly legal, as long as those pistol-packing individuals don’t bark at a passerby…

Though I didn’t blog about it at the time, Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen issued an advisory memorandum a few weeks ago that opined that the open carrying of firearms by citizens in Wisconsin is in fact perfectly legal, so long as those pistol-packing individuals don’t bark at a…

Last week Friday, Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said he opposes making first-offense drunken driving a crime and would like state law changed to give judges the option of sentencing second-time offenders to probation rather than mandatory jail time. It’s worth noting Wisconsin is the only state in America…