Every Vote Matters

This article was previously published in the Wisconsin Professional Employees Council newsletter.  WPEC represents state employees and is an AFT-WI affiliate. Four months from now will be the next mid-term elections. Mid-term elections have a significant impact in Wisconsin. In the mid-terms, Wisconsinites will vote on every Assembly seat, half of the State Senate seats, and the Governor. Four years earlier, 2010, over half of the eligible voters in Wisconsin stayed home, and overnight Wisconsin was turned in a very different direction. A traditionally purple state turned decidedly red. With that lopsided shift in power, came a decidedly ...