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Mom. @MadDanWrites wife. Reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Blackbelt. Sicilian-Irish. DM for Signal. MSpicuzza@gannett.com
Oct 13, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
The repeal of abortion rights in Wisconsin reshaped 2022 political campaigns. Will it change outcomes? wpr.org/node/2016861 (By @robertmentzer) In 2004, when he was running for U.S. Senate against Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold, Michels addressed the issue in an appearance on Wisconsin Public Radio's regional talk show "Route 51."
Oct 12, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
The @MULawPoll is starting after a tornado warning .@ "If it's not one damn thing, it's another," @PollsAndVotes. The new @MULawPoll finds a wider margin in the US Senate race than in the poll a month ago, with Republican @SenRonJohnson supported by 52% and Democrat Mandela Barnes by 46% among likely voters.

In September, it was Johnson 49%, Barnes 48%.
Jun 24, 2022 13 tweets 2 min read
Tanya Atkinson. President & CEO of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin: "When Roe vs. Wade was struck down this morning, we had patients in our waiting rooms. We had friends, families, neighbors, people who had driven for hours and hours in some cases." "This is a dangerous decision. It's a chilling decision, and it's going to have devastating consequences for 1.3 million women across the state of Wisconsin of reproductive age & for millions across the country, forcing people to travel 100s, sometimes 1000s of miles for care."
Feb 11, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
It's the 100th COVID-19 briefing in Wisconsin.

There have now been 860,389 vaccine doses administered in Wisconsin, deputy secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk of @DHSWI says. "We are committed to equitable distribution of the vaccine, and that means we want to get as accurate a picture, and to share that picture, of who the vaccine is going to," she says.
Feb 9, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
Wisconsin @GovEvers repeats recent comments from state public health officials: It's not vaccines or masks. It's vaccines and masks. There have been 793,475 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Wisconsin, Deputy Health Secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk says.
Feb 8, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
Reducing COVID deaths might rely most on getting those over 65 vaccinated — and in Wisconsin, 1 in 3 have received a first dose jsonline.com/story/news/202… by @fauber_mjs @SCarson_News & me Wisconsin now has vaccinated more than one-third of people 65 and older, a group that is especially vulnerable to COVID-19 -- and that makes up a disproportionate number of deaths linked to the disease.
Jan 29, 2021 12 tweets 4 min read
Wisconsin @GovEvers: "Wearing a mask is not a political statement." There have been 476,854 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Wisconsin, Julie Willems Van Dijk says.
Nov 24, 2020 16 tweets 5 min read
Welcome to Day 5 of the recount. I am back at the Wisconsin Center in downtown Milwaukee this morning, where things should be underway soon. Milwaukee County Elections Director Julietta Henry goes over the guidelines after the meeting is called to order. She reminds people that ballot envelopes with different color ink for the witness signature and “indefinitely confined” will be set aside.
Nov 22, 2020 8 tweets 3 min read
Recount off to a slow start, especially in Milwaukee where Trump campaign observers object to thousands of ballots, envelopes jsonline.com/story/news/pol… by @SchulteLaura @AlisonDirr @RicoReporting @mdesisti & me One Trump observer, according to a Brown Deer election official, said the campaign was objecting to all absentee ballots because they were folded — even though they must be folded to fit into envelopes.
Nov 21, 2020 31 tweets 8 min read
Day 2 of the recount is underway in Milwaukee County. Poll workers have been sworn in in Milwaukee County.
Nov 18, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
Wisconsin @GovEvers warns that Wisconsin could suffer as many as 5,000 COVID-19 deaths this year (on the current trajectory). .@GovEvers says he will be reissuing his emergency face mask order.

He also urges Republicans to withdraw from the lawsuit against his mask mandate.