Voting/Elections
Shoestring Politics
Shoestring Politics
How to win in politics without being rich or mortgaging your soul
Saturday, February 27
1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Portage County Democratic Party Headquarters
2220 S. Division Street, Stevens Point
If you are active in a cause, advocating for an issue, engaged in grassroots activism, thinking of running for office, or looking to help someone run for office, this workshop is for you.
This workshop provides people an alternative to the money-driven formula for campaigning that the consulting industry promotes. Learn to equip yourself with alterna...
BLUE JEAN NATION REVIVAL
BLUE JEAN NATION REVIVAL
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20
NEENAH, WISCONSIN
Blue Jean Nation has no interest in holding just another boring political convention with endless speeches. What we’ve got in mind is more like a New England-style town hall meeting – only with a twist inspired by digital-age social media. A “town hall tweeting” you might say, complete with a hearing where everyone who attends is invited to give oral “tweestimony” on how to fix the broken political system in 140 characters or less, with the best statements tweeted out live on Blue Jean ...
WHAT HAPPENS IN AN IOWA CAUCUS?
(Katy Harle lives in Bettendorf, Iowa)
What a night! It was exciting to see such a great turnout at our local Democratic caucus, people of all ages, including some parents who brought their elementary and middle-school-age children to watch and learn. The caucus was to begin promptly at 7 p.m.
Lucky for us we arrived early and checked in within minutes. About 6:35 p.m. the line was very long. Evidently a lot of people came who needed to register; some of us were already registered. We carry our registration card with us. Our registration to vote allows us to attend ...
VOTE ON FEBRUARY 16
VOTE ON FEBRUARY 16
REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR PHOTO ID.
JUDGE KLOPPENBURG FOR SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
Wisconsin Court of Appeals Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg is running for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. She faces a primary challenge on Tuesday, February 16, with general election on April 5.
Kloppenburg received a B.A. in Russian studies from Yale University. After receiving a Master of Public Affairs from Princeton University in 1976, she spent several years in the Peace Corps as a rural development planner in Botswana. Upon return to the United States, she established the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children in upstate New York ...
FAIR ELECTIONS PROJECT
Our current gerrymandered legislative districts are the “worst partisan gerrymanders in modern American history.” In many cases, our votes in such a district are meaningless.
In the last election, Democratic votes outnumbered Republican votes. Yet two-thirds of the State Assembly seats are held by Republicans. Something is drastically wrong.
Here is good news. The Fair Elections Project has been launched to oppose partisan gerrymandering. The Project aims to ask the courts “to implement a standard that can measure when there’s too much partisan gerrymanderi...
WAUSAU MAYORAL CANDIDATES NEED TO DEBATE
In a press release today, I made a call for a public debate among the five mayoral candidates. Wausau residents have a right to hear, in a public forum, where each of the five mayoral candidates stands on issues that matter most to residents.
City Hall, under the current administration, has restricted the average resident’s ability to learn about and be involved in local government affairs. The CBL/Wausau Center meeting which only allowed about 20 members of the general public to attend is one recent example.
The people shouldn’t have to beg or demand to be ...
VOTE FEBRUARY 16
VOTE FEBRUARY 16
REMEMBER YOUR PHOTO ID
VOTE ON FEBRUARY 16
MARK YOUR CALENDAR. PLAN TO VOTE AT THESE FOUR ELECTIONS IN 2016:
February 16….nonpartisan primaries
April 5….vote for a new Supreme Court justice and many local officials including every county board member, and Wisconsin’s Presidential Preference vote.
August 9….partisan primary (not including president)
November 8…elect President of the United States, all members of the State Assembly, half the State Senate and other local partisan positions.
Wisconsin now has some of the strictest voting laws in the nation. You will need a photo ID to vote.
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JAY KRONENWETTER TO RUN FOR MAYOR OF WAUSAU
(Editor's Note: The following is information that Jay sent me about his candidacy and himself. Biographical background details from him that were in bullet points are presented in prose.)
I was born and raised in Wausau and after law school came home to start my legal practice. Having attended school in some fine cities such as Madison, Pittsburgh and San Francisco, I can confidently express my opinion that the people of Wausau, my neighbors, make this a town with unique benefits and opportunities that no other city can claim. True, we have much we can learn from the ...