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[Madison, WI] – In case you missed it, candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Jill Karofsky’s record as a Dane County Judge took another disturbing turn when it was revealed that she let a brutal child rapist off with the most lenient sentence possible. Jay Perez was convicted of brutally raping his sister when she was between five and six years-old. According to the victim, Perez assaulted her while their 4 year-old autistic brother cried outside the door. Perez was able to keep his victim quiet by threatening that she would be taken away from their family if she ever

MADISON– Melissa Sargent (D-Madison) released the following statement announcing details for a district engagement opportunity, for her candidacy for Wisconsin’s 16th Senate District:   “Since announcing my candidacy for the 16th Senate District of Wisconsin, it has been a pleasure to visit each community and to listen to the needs of community leaders, business owners, and residents. Now, I am proud to announce an engagement tour across the 16th Senate District to be accessible to voters across the District, and to listen and learn how I can best serve:   Madison Engagement Opportunity Java Cat Coffee 3918 Monona Dr Madison,

(La Crosse, WI) — (La Crosse, WI) — Today, La Crosse County Board Chair Tara Johnson, founder of the National organization APS Foundation of America and health care advocate Tina Pohlman, who also has pre-existing conditions, and community activist K.C. Cayo, held a press conference highlighting the Trump administration’s broken promises to women. In 2016, Trump came to Wisconsin, promising “I’m going to be the best for women’s health issues,’ and that ‘nobody will be better for women,” and “nobody will give greater security to our country for women.” The reality is Trump is trying to remove protections for people with

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Moore supported Congressman Anthony G. Brown’s resolution, H.Res. 867, honoring the service of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion. An all-black, all female battalion, they were deployed during World War II at a time when there was a significant shortage of postal workers across the European Theater. The 6888th was the only African-American unit in the Women’s Army Corps to deploy overseas during the War. When the 6888th arrived in Birmingham, England they were met with a mail backlog dating as far back as two years. Mail addressed to first names, nicknames and outdated addresses all compounded the difficulty of this

MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today swore Wisconsin’s new adjutant general into the Wisconsin National Guard. Maj. Gen. Paul E. Knapp was officially promoted to the rank of major general, by the governor, who is the commander-in-chief of the Wisconsin National Guard, during a ceremony in the governor’s office with members of his family present as he assumed the duties of the adjutant general.  As adjutant general, Knapp is the commander of the 10,000 Soldiers and Airmen of the Wisconsin Army and Air National Guard. He is also responsible for Wisconsin Emergency Management, Wisconsin’s Office of Emergency Communications, and serves as Wisconsin’s Homeland Security Advisor. 

MADISON – The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) has awarded nearly $1 million in Wisconsin Fast Forward (WFF) Teacher Training and Recruitment grants to two nonprofit organizations to recruit and prepare individuals to teach in public or private schools in Wisconsin. “The Wisconsin Fast Forward program is investing in our teachers and our students,” DWD Secretary Caleb Frostman said. “Wisconsin is facing unprecedented teacher shortages and these grants will help alleviate this issue in low-income and urban school districts where Wisconsin teacher shortages are most concerning.” DWD granted $500,000 to City Forward Collective to recruit, train, mentor, and place 140 new teachers

WISCONSIN — The general election campaign in Wisconsin to beat Donald Trump’s agenda kicked off a new phase today, with a coalition of labor unions, progressive organizations and state elected officials announcing the launch of Wisconsin Organizing Together. The organization will be heavily focused on digital organizing, work around the upcoming Supreme Court election and key school funding referenda on the April 7, 2020 ballot.  The campaign is community-based and volunteer-driven, designed to get the Democratic infrastructure running earlier than ever before, and to energize the grassroots in battleground states prior to a nominee being chosen. The campaign is a federally-independent organizing effort

(La Crosse, WI) — Wisconsin Democrats blasted Trump for his numerous broken promises to women, including his most budget proposal that would gut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, at a press conference in La Crosse yesterday. One of the speakers, Tina Pohlman, who lives with multiple pre-existing conditions and runs a national non-profit health advocacy group highlighted: “Noting administrations proposals to revamp [cut] Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, Pohlman said, ‘I want to go about my life helping others without having to worry that my livelihood will be threatened by a president who promised to stand up for people like me

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