Debate rages on over bringing public financing of elections to Wisconsin judicial and legislative elections, this time at a forum hosted by Wisconsin Common Cause and attended by people on both sides of the issue, including sponsors of a bill that would have publicly funded races for the state Supreme Court -- a bill that cleared the Senate but didn't make it out of the state Assembly.  Doesn't look like it's going away anytime soon though -- keep up the fight!

WisPolitics.com interviewed Wisconsin Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton on the state of Wisconsin politics and her future ambitions for office. Excerpted here is the section that focuses on her support for full public financing of campaigns in the model of Arizona, Maine, and Connecticut and her work with the Governor towards reforming the state's campaign finance laws.

Ed Garvey, writing for Wisconsin's Capital Times, urges Governor Jim Doyle to back public financing of campaigns and take special interest money's bite out of state politics. Dismissing and discrediting the arguments against a Clean Elections model, Garvey makes his case for putting elections back in the hands of people.

The Wisconsin gubernatorial race between Democratic Governor Jim Doyle and Republican challenger Mark Green is drawing attention in state for the narrow profile of donors filling both candidates campaign coffers.