Vanessa Kjeldsen
Reporter at WMTV-TV (Madison, WI)
Wisconsin State Capitol Bureau Chief for @wmtv15news, @weau13news, @wsaw, @wbay and @northernnewsnow | @MedillSchool Alum 🐈
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2 months ago |
wmtv15news.com | Vanessa Kjeldsen
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - After a lawsuit, $1,600 spent on security and an attempt to adjourn the caucus entirely, Ken Sikora won the chair for the 8th District’s Executive GOP Committee. “I think we’re representing the grassroots of the state party and the grassroots around the country,” Sikora said. “We’re putting up a fight that they haven’t seen in a long time.”Sikora will replace incumbent Stephanie Soucek, signaling a new era of leadership in the Republican Party.
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2 months ago |
wmtv15news.com | Vanessa Kjeldsen
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - It was chaos at the caucus. The Republican Party of Wisconsin and the GOP’s 8th Congressional District spent more than $1,600 on security for a GOP Caucus meeting, where only Republicans were in attendance. “That’s not normal. There were people who were afraid to attend the caucus,” Kirt Johnson, chair of the Kewaunee County Republican Party, said.
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Mar 28, 2025 |
weau.com | Vanessa Kjeldsen
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - In addition to the highly watched Wisconsin Supreme Court race and Department of Public Instruction battle, there is also a constitutional amendment on your April 1 ballot. Requiring voter ID is not new in Wisconsin, but if this amendment passes, it would enshrine the 14-year-old law into the state’s constitution, making it more difficult for the Wisconsin Supreme Court to repeal or change it.
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Mar 27, 2025 |
weau.com | Vanessa Kjeldsen
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - Medicaid provides over one million people in Wisconsin with health care coverage, but with potential extensive Medicaid cuts on the line, some Wisconsinites living with disabilities are bracing for the worst. Timothy O’Keefe, 39, has a laundry business, employing two other Wisconsinites with differing abilities. O’Keefe himself is nonverbal—he was diagnosed with autism at two-years-old.
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Mar 20, 2025 |
weau.com | Vanessa Kjeldsen
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - Transgender athletes would be banned from competing in girls’ sports and using girls’ locker rooms under a pair of bills that passed the Wisconsin Assembly on Thursday. Republicans, who control the Legislature, also approved bills to prohibit medical services to give children gender transitions and ban teachers from using a student’s preferred name or pronouns without approval from their parents. Gov.
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