Thank you for your 4 years of service in the Wisconsin State Assembly, Representative Spanbauer

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And he leaves his colleagues with 2 excellent suggestions.

Spanbauer: Legislature should consider bills. (Oshkosh Northwestern, 12/10/2012)

2011 Assembly Bill 28 (Even with bipartisan support, this bill didn't get very far in the legislative process)

Legislative Reference Bureau analysis

Under current law, with certain exceptions, registrants under the campaign finance law are required to file regular reports with the appropriate filing officer or agency. The reports must identify: 

1) contributors of more than $20 cumulatively within a calendar year; 

2) the occupation and principal place of employment, if any, of each contributor whose cumulative contributions within a calendar year exceed $100;

3) the registrants from whom or to whom funds are transferred; 

4) other income exceeding $20; contributions donated to a charitable organization or the common school fund; 

5) loans exceeding $20, together with the identity of the lenders and guarantors, if any;

6) disbursements (expenditures) and obligations exceeding $20; and 

7) certain information from registrants making disbursements independently of candidates. 

However, if a registrant does not maintain an office or street address within this state, the registrant need only identify 

• contributions, 
• transfers, 
• loans, and 
• other income 

received from sources in this state and disbursements and obligations incurred with respect to elections for state or local office in this state. 

Same requirements for in-state and out-of-state registrants.  This bill deletes the exception for registrants who or which do not maintain an office or street address within this state, so that these registrants are required to report the same information as other registrants.

His 2nd suggestion is for a constitutional amendment to make ll county offices nonpartisan.