The latest from Wisconsin:

Assembly Republicans on Wednesday plan to pass bills overhauling campaign finance laws and the state elections agency, but those proposals face an uncertain future in the GOP Senate.

The overhaul of the Government Accountability Board, the state elections and ethics agency, doesn’t yet have the votes to pass the Senate, according to multiple Republicans in that house. On the rewrite of campaign finance laws, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) said he expects changes to the proposal before it passes his house….

Vukmir’s proposal would eliminate the accountability board, which consists of six former judges and is responsible for administering election, campaign finance, lobbying and ethics laws. It would replace it with two commissions made up equally of Republicans and Democrats.

But Olsen said he had concerns about eliminating the judges and about putting equal numbers of appointees from both parties on the new commissions. In controversial cases, the two boards could deadlock and end up doing nothing, he said.

“If it’s set up so they never agree on anything, then nothing gets investigated,” Olsen said.

Olsen said he would prefer to see the judges remain part of the system and then add partisan appointees to supplement them.