SD4
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SD8
- Jennifer Morales SD10 - Gary Bakke
SD12
- Roger Breske SD16 - Mark Miller
SD22
- Bob Wirch SD24
- Julie Lassa
SD26
- Fred Risser SD30
- Dave Hansen
SD32
- Brad Pfaff
AD1 - Tom Hermann AD5
- Tom Nelson
AD7 - Peggy Krusick AD8 -
Pedro Colon
AD9 - Josh Zepnick AD12 -
Fred Kessler
AD13 - David Cullen AD16
- Leon Young
AD17 - Barbara Toles AD18 -
Tamara Grigsby
AD19 - Jon Richards AD20
- Christine Sinicki
AD22 - Sheldon Wasserman AD28
- Charlie Wolden
AD29 - Joe Plouff* AD35 -
Bill Brandt
AD36 - Jim Crawford AD43
- Matt McIntyre
AD44 - Mike Sheridan AD45
- Chuck Benedict
AD46 - Gary Hebl AD47
- Megan Yost
AD48 - Joe Parisi AD53
- LuAnn Bird
AD54 - Gordon Hintz AD61
- Bob Turner
AD62 - John Lehman AD64
- Jim Kreuser
AD65 - John Steinbrink AD67
- Jeff Monette
AD68 - Joe Bee Ziong AD70 - Amy
Sue Vruwink
AD71 - Louis Molepske AD72 - Marlin
Schneider
AD73 - Frank Boyle AD74
- Gary Sherman
AD78 - Mark Pocan AD79 - Sondy Pope-Roberts
AD80 - Gof Thompson AD85 -
Donna Seidel
AD87 - Mary Satterwhite AD88 - Dan Aude
AD90 - Helen Schaal AD93 -
Jeff Smith
AD92 - Michael Taft AD94
- Vicki Burke
AD96 - Gail Frie
We are going to be starting
our ID callings this coming week and they will go through the election on
Hate people calling you and
asking who you are going to vote for? An
easy way for them not to call you again is just answer the question. If you do not many campaigns and
organizations put your number into the pot with the undecided voters - they do
this in hopes that in the future when they call you will answer. If you are put into the undecided list you
are going to receive even more mail and auto calls etc. trying to persuade you
to vote for a specific candidate. So the
best thing to do is just answer the question.
Worksite Fliers:
We are starting our intense
worksite flier plan. The plan is to hit
locals once a week with fliers that explain the stances that Senator John Kerry
and President Bush have on issues. These
fliers are great because they only talk about the issues - there's no Swift
Boats for Justice stuff here. I will be calling local Presidents this
weekend to see if you would like to hand fliers out at your worksites - if you
cannot hand them out I can send you some to post on union bulletin boards. This week's flier is attached in PDF
form. You do not have to print copies -
I WILL send them to you. If you do
though print off the flier and post it please let me know as I am tracking which
locals had out fliers.
Republican US Senate
Candidate, Tim Michels, has a T.V. commercial running
that talks about US Senator Russ Feingold's position on prescription
drugs. The 30-second broadcast spot
airing in some areas has Michels saying that,
''unlike Russ Feingold, I'll fight for your right to buy safe and affordable
prescription drugs from
Feingold has responded
saying, the ad ''is intended to fool or trick seniors into thinking I have
sided with pharmaceutical companies on the issue of drug importation...My
record is the complete opposite of what Mr. Michels'
ad says it is. ... (The ad) is a dishonest act, a dirty political trick, and
I'm not going to put up with it.''
Michels campaign spokesman Tim Roby
said trying was not enough. ''Look at
the results,'' Roby said. ''The results are what matter. And the fact is we are
still facing a health care crisis in this country and seniors have major issues
with prescription drug costs. So we can argue about the
semantics of the word 'fight,' but our focus is on results.''
If Michels spokesman is correct in that we are facing a
health care crisis but the blame goes to President Bush for stonewalling the
re-importation of prescription drugs.
Senator Feingold has a long history of working to bring prescription drugs
in from
Tom Frazier, executive
director of the Coalition of Wisconsin Aging Groups, listened to a tape of the
ad and described it as ''false.'' ''In
fact, Senator Feingold is co-sponsor of the best (importation) bill out there,''
Frazier said. ''You certainly cannot say that he's not in favor of
(importation). It's simply not true.''
Feingold has been a
co-sponsor of various rounds of bipartisan drug importation legislation. He
also based his opposition to the Bush administration's Medicare bill partly on
its specific ban on drug importation.
Conclusion: Michels
ad says that we need re-importation of drugs from
Primary
results and affects
(from www.wiscpolitics.com <http://www.wiscpolitics.com/>
)
Mary Panzer: The veteran politician was seen as "dead
majority leader walking'' by most pundits weeks before primary day, but few
thought the Senate majority leader would lose by such a huge margin -- about 80
percent to 20 percent. Now she'll exit the Legislature after nearly a quarter
century. A sad way to go, many insiders intone. But conservatives cheer. They
see her defeat as sending a message to squishy Republicans -- heed the power of
the tax message, or else. And they're hoping her defeat will set off a brush
fire in the
Scott Fitzgerald: The new Senate majority leader ascends to lead
a caucus that has been distracted -- but not deterred -- by the travails of
Mary Panzer. With that out of the way, he and the election team now will
concentrate on gaining seats. But Republican efforts for a veto-proof majority
were dealt a blow with the upset victory of former state Sen. Gary Drzewiecki in the Green Bay-area seat over chosen candidate
David Steffen. Some Republican leaders are still trying to figure that one out.
For now, Fitzgerald's election as leader is the only major change, but more
could come after November.
John Gard and conservatives: The
Assembly speaker and his band of conservative cohorts solidified control of the
Legislature with the defeat of Mary Panzer by Glenn Grothman
and the defeat of Rep. Mickey Lehman by Don Pridemore.
The Senate caucus, now led by Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, figures
to be more conservative and more in sync with the Assembly. But the
Republican-led Legislature also now will be more easily painted as right-wing
by Dems. Some Dem strategists opine that
conservatives' victory dance may be short lived, contending Grothman's
win will actually help Dems in their legislative
races, as one more piece of evidence that GOP is on an extremist mission. Some
Republican strategists worry that conservatives are about to overplay their
hand. But for now, RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) better watch out. Who's next on the hit list?
TABOR: Conservatives are once again talking smart on the
Taxpayer Bill of Rights, pointing to the election victories of Glenn Grothman (over Sen. Mary Panzer), Don Pridemore
(over Rep. Mickey Lehman), Rep. Gabe Loeffelholz (over a WEAC-backed candidate) and Rep. Scott Suder (WMC ran pro-TABOR radio ads in Suder's
district, where he took 80 percent of the vote). All those election results
have given conservatives a boost and spurred them to predict anew that some
form of the constitutional amendment will get first-consideration approval when
the Legislature comes back in January under expected Republican control.
Conservatives further claim the grassroots are finally excited about TABOR,
having been educated by WMC, talk radio and other groups over the past few
months with the drumbeat of warnings about the need to keep fighting for tax
relief. Tuesday's primary election, they say, will be a wake-up call to
Republican elected officials who have wavered on TABOR. And if conservatives
knock off a Dem in November on the issue, insiders predict pols
from both parties will be scared into voting for the amendment. But victory
isn't in hand yet -- opponents are well-organized (witness the new WEAC TV ad warning
of the demise of public schools), and the amendment language still suffers from
the MEGO (My Eyes Glaze Over) factor. If the language isn't simplified, voters
and pols alike may reject it.
REMEMBER A VOTE FOR A
LEGISLATOR IN FAVOR OF TABOR IS A VOTE AGAINST YOUR JOB AND HEALTH CARE
AS ALWAYS FEEL FREE TO PASS ALONG TO CO-WORKERS