mail: BobForMPS@gmail.com • Cell: 414-604-6125 Experienced public educator committed to ensuring that all Milwaukee children are successful MILWAUKEE: Long-time community activist and public school educator Bob Peterson today filed to run for the citywide seat on the MPS Board of School Directors. Peterson started working in MPS as a paraprofessional in 1977 during the court-ordered school desegregation and soon after became a teacher. During his nearly four decades as an MPS teacher, he taught at 38thStreet Open Education School, Vieau Elementary School and La Escuela Fratney. Peterson helped found La Escuela Fratney, Wisconsin’s first two-way bilingual school, in 1988. He was Wisconsin’s

Contact: Brad Bainum, bradb@wisdems.org Nicholson’s need for out-of-state signature circulators to get on the ballot underscores Wisconsinites’ lack of enthusiasm for his candidacy MADISON — Less than a week after GOP U.S. Senate candidate Kevin Nicholson’s “outsider” narrative was debunked and he was exposed as a deceitful opportunist, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today reports that Nicholson does have some “outsider” credentials, after all. In addition to Nicholson’s reliance on millions in financial support from Illinois billionaire Dick Uihlein, Nicholson counted on seven “paid” (according to his campaign) out-of-state circulators to secure more than 70% of the signatures that he needs to get on to the ballot. This report

Contact: Sen. Hansen 608-266-5670 “I am very disappointed in the State of Michigan’s approval of the Back Forty Mine that will be located just 150 feet from the Menominee River. “Their decision flies in, the face of the large majority of residents in Wisconsin and Michigan who live near the mine or who will be negatively affected by its operation. “Allowing a mining process that involves the use of industrial acids so close to the Menominee River and the Bay of Green Bay is not only irresponsible, but represents a danger to the health of the river itself, the Bay,

MEDIA CONTACT Mike Browne, Deputy Director mike@OneWisconsinNow.org (608) 444-3483 Desperate Re-election Bid Now Has Candidate Walker Seeking Credit for Fixing Program He’s Spent Years Trying to Break MADISON, Wis. — As part of his increasingly desperate bid to rehabilitate his image and continue his quarter century long political career, Scott Walker today released a new campaign television ad. The following are the statements of One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross: “The true message of Scott Walker’s latest ad is that this guy will say anything to try win an election. “While he and his family have enjoyed full health

Contact: Amy Hasenberg, (608) 266-2839 WEDC invested more than $3 million to support minority businesses statewide WAUSAU – Governor Scott Walker announced today that the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) awarded a $100,000 grant to MCDEVCO, Inc., a Marathon County economic development organization, to launch a new revolving loan program for minority-owned businesses. “Minority-owned businesses play a key role in the overall success of Wisconsin’s economy,” said Governor Walker. “This new loan program will help provide minority entrepreneurs in Marathon County with much-needed capital to help ensure their success. This will build on Wisconsin’s tremendous economic growth we’ve seen over

Contact: Senator Robert Cowles ~ (608) 266-0484 Representative Gary Tauchen ~ (608) 266-3097 MADISON– Recently, a decision by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to lower water levels on Shawano Lake by approximately 5 inches has drawn criticism from frequent lake users. Senator Robert Cowles (R-Green Bay) and Representative Gary Tauchen (R-Bonduel) released the following statement after the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) expedited an opinion that they would have no objection based on an evaluation of natural resources concerns to raising the water levels in Shawano Lake: “As another Wisconsin summer kicks off, decisions made by government regulators

Contact: Melanie Conklin, 608-260-2409 Walker’s partisanship played with people’s lives FACTS: Walker’s refusal to expand Medicaid in order to burnish his far-right credentials ahead of a presidential campaign has cost Wisconsin taxpayers $1 billion over 5 years to provide health care for 9,000 fewer Wisconsinites, as well as costing the state 10,000 health care jobs. Walker’s own Insurance Commissioner’s Office agrees that spikes in premiums are a direct result of repeated Republican sabotage of the Affordable Care Act. Walker enthusiastically backed the GOP’s Affordable Care Act sabotage, including Trump’s tax law which will cause millions to lose healthcare while forcing