Ryan Owens is a political science professor a the University of Wisconsin in Madison. At a news conference announcing the creation of the Wisconsin Conservative Energy Forum, he said he hopes the new group will help bring public and private leaders together to create beneficial bipartisan policies. If so, it will be the first bipartisan initiative Wisconsin has seen this century. “There’s an excellent opportunity for us to bring this conversation back to a common sense position that Wisconsinites can get behind and that will benefit us all,” Owens said.