Special Broadcast: Civic Media's coverage of Gov. Evers' budget address and Spring Election Primary results
Lots to recombobulate on, folks.
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Tuesday, Feb. 18 was a big day in Wisconsin politics. It was the day of the Spring Election Primary, featuring the statewide race for superintendent, and was also the day of the governor’s biennial budget address.
At Civic Media, we covered both with a special broadcast. The show as hosted by Todd Allbaugh, host of “The Todd Allbaugh Show” and featured yours truly as co-anchor (later in the evening) and on-the-ground reporter (during the speech)
From the speech, I snapped a few photos and took some video, which you can see below.
You can find my live coverage of the speech on my Twitter feed here, including several videos of the speech.
For Civic Media’s live broadcast, Allbaugh anchored the coverage and was joined by several guests, including Lieutenant Governor Sara Rodriguez, former Republican state senator Rob Cowles, and Democratic State Sen. Kelda Roys.
Along with discussing the governor’s budget address, we also talked about results from the Spring Election Primary, where incumbent Superintendent Jill Underly and Republican-backed challenger Brittany Kinser advanced to the general election. See our coverage of those results here.
Civic Media’s Jimmie Kaska also joined to talk about the results of several school referenda happening in the state. You can find his story on those results here.
Rewatch the full show on Civic Media’s YouTube channel here (embedded below).
You can listen to the full show as a podcast on Civic Media here.
Dan Shafer is a journalist from Milwaukee who writes and publishes The Recombobulation Area. In 2024, he became the Political Editor of Civic Media. He’s also written for The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Heartland Signal, Belt Magazine, WisPolitics, and Milwaukee Record. He previously worked at Seattle Magazine, Seattle Business Magazine, the Milwaukee Business Journal, Milwaukee Magazine, and BizTimes Milwaukee. He’s won 18 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism Awards. He’s on Twitter at @DanRShafer.
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