Contact: Zach Madden 608-266-7521(office) 608-620-3884 (cell) MADISON – Saturday marks the 97th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. 97 years later, Wisconsin women are losing ground in the fight for full equality.   Women in Wisconsin are paid just 78 cents on the dollar compared to men, and the gap is even larger for women of color. During his first term in office, Governor Scott Walker led a Republican repeal of Wisconsin’s Equal Pay Act, making Wisconsin one of just five states without a law providing women who experience pay discrimination state-level

Contact: Senator Cowles, 920.448.5092 Representative Kerkman, 888.529.0061 MADISON – Today, the nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau (LAB) released the second phase of its evaluation (report 17‑14) of the Wisconsin Veterans Home at King, which is located in Waupaca County and operated by the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA).  In 2016, King provided skilled nursing care to an average of 685 veterans and their spouses each day. Overall, LAB found that the care needs of residents at King increased from 2007 through 2016 based on several measures. Although King was authorized more than 80 additional nursing positions by 2013 Wisconsin Act 20,

Contact: info@daneGOP.org 608-709-0478 This past week, Mayor Paul Soglin (D – Madison, WI) decided to take down monuments of the Confederacy at a local cemetery. Nowhere in his public statement is there a reference to the Democratic party. Soglin writes: “We will honor our history. We will respect the dead. We make sure that our legacy is to tell the truth and to remove evidence of racist historical revisionism. We will use the story of these monuments to tell the truth about a century of Jim Crow, economic oppression and those like the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the

Contact: 262-290-3343 ​[Fredonia….] ​The Manitowoc Public School District is stopping area families from enrolling in online public charter schools. It is an action that has drawn the ire of the Wisconsin Coalition of Virtual School Families, which ​is vowing to fight to change the state law that gives all school districts the power to veto the wishes of public school parents. “This is an outrageous abuse of power that shows a callous and malicious distrust of parents,” said Peder Berg, president of the Coalition. “Children are not vessels for state aid and school districts should not be standing in the

“The Wisconsin Land and Water Conservation Association (WI Land+Water) applauds the decisions by the Wisconsin Joint Finance Committee to approve amendments to the Governor’s 2017-19 budget to increase funding to a number of key land and water conservation efforts”, said WI Land+Water Executive Director Jim VandenBrook.. They include: an ongoing $900,000 increase in annual funding to support land and water conservation offices; an additional $825,000 for additional soil and water resource management grants; an additional $100,000 for Targeted Resource Management grants; $500,000 for Aquatic Invasive Species Education and Control grants, and more. Special thanks to Senator Harsdorf for authoring the

Contact: Danielle Endvick 715-471-0398 dendvick@wisconsinfarmersunion.com CHIPPEWA FALLS – Wisconsin Farmers Union commends the Joint Finance Committee for unanimously voting in favor of a provision to restore Farm to School funding in the budget. Funding for the program had been eliminated in the Governor’s proposed budget this spring. WFU was among a broad coalition of groups that signed onto a letter circulated to legislators in April, urging them to save the program, which spurs over $9 million dollars in purchases of locally grown and processed foods by Wisconsin schools each year. Farmers Union members also lobbied for Farm to School during