The Latest on efforts to remove Wisconsin Ethics, Elections commission administrators (all times local):
8:30 a.m.
An investigation by the Wisconsin Ethics Commission has determined there is no evidence that its administrator Brian Bell has acted in a partisan manner.
The report released Monday night comes before a scheduled Tuesday vote in the Senate on whether to confirm Bell. Republican leaders have said they've lost faith in his ability to be nonpartisan and his confirmation will be rejected.
Senate Republicans are also expected to reject confirmation of Elections Commission administrator Michael Haas.
Republican anger stems in part from Haas and Bell previously working for the now-disbanded Government Accountability Board which had investigated Gov. Scott Walker and other conservative groups.
The Ethics Commission investigation determined there was "not a scintilla of evidence" Bell acted in a partisan manner.
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12:45 a.m.
Republicans still smarting from a secret John Doe investigation into conservative groups and Gov. Scott Walker scheduled a dramatic vote to oust leaders of the bipartisan state agencies charged with running elections and overseeing ethics laws.
The Senate was scheduled to vote Tuesday on whether to confirm Michael Haas as Elections Commission administrator and Brian Bell as leader of the Ethics Commission.
Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald has said they will not be confirmed, a highly unusual public rebuke of agency heads who have unanimous backing from the commissions that hired them.
The motivating force behind Republican anger with Haas and Bell is their past work with the Government Accountability Board. The Legislature disbanded the GAB in 2015 amid anger over its role investigating Republican Walker and conservative groups.
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