U.S. Senate Race
MAGA Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde claims that Tammy Baldwin has done nothing good for Wisconsin during her 20+ years in Washington. Yet if he’d spent more time here instead of garnering consecutive “most influential individual” honors from the Orange County (CA) Business Journal, he might know about the dozens of awards for excellent work that Baldwin earned from groups ranging from the US Chamber of Commerce, Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation, and International Dairy Foods Association to the American Public Health Association, Disabled American Veterans, Coalition on Adult Basic Education, First Focus Campaign for Children, Bipartisan Policy Center, and Climate Action Campaign.
Perhaps he’d know that she secured billions of dollars for worthy projects like replacing Superior’s Blatnik Bridge, two new tribal clean energy projects, and the Urban League’s Black Business Hub, the new Centro Hispano headquarters, and the Center for Black Excellence and Culture here in Madison. Maybe he’d know that Baldwin authored the Obamacare provision that allows your kids to stay on your health insurance policy until age 26.
It matters who wins this Senate seat. Had a Republican held it, there would’ve been no tie for VP Harris to break to adopt America’s biggest commitment to climate action (Inflation Reduction Act) or pass the American Rescue Plan Act that kept legions of small businesses and families afloat during the pandemic. Nor could John McCain have cast the vote in 2017 to killed the GOP bill that would’ve ended Obamacare.
For our future, we must re-elect Tammy Baldwin!