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Both voiced optimism at a WisPolitics luncheon about their parties’ futures despite recent losses.
Those who will be on the ballot for chair are: 3rd CD Dem Chair William Garcia, former party Executive Director Devin Remiker and operative Joe Zepecki.
Delegates at the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s state convention backed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Palestine conflict despite opposition from leadership that it failed to mention the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.
Dem party activists elected Tomika Vukovic, a member of the Glendale Common Council, and Arvina Martin, the executive director of Emerge Wisconsin, to the DNC. The delegates also reelected by acclimation Alex Lasry, a former Milwaukee Bucks exec who serves in the Biden administration, and Eau Claire Ald. Andrew Werthmann. They were the only two candidates who qualified for the race.
Five months out from the November election, there’s been a steady stream of polls showing minority voters are less enthusiastic about Biden than they were in 2020. And there has been particular attention paid to Black men. Some of those surveys have shown an openness about voting for Trump this fall.
Need an easy laugh at the Dem state convention while addressing party activists? Take a shot at Donald Trump’s legal troubles.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, delivering the keynote address to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s state convention, gave activists one charge for this fall: win.
DNC Chair Jaime Harrison today urged Democrats to vote in the 2024 election, describing the election as a struggle of hope against fear.
A half dozen pro-Palestinian protests were escorted out of the Dem state convention after they interrupted U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s speech.
Gov. Tony Evers ticked off accomplishments he attributed to Democrats, including increases in shared revenue funding for municipalities, affordable housing investments, repairing roads and keeping the Brewers in Milwaukee. Evers said Dems have faced “near-constant Republican obstruction.”
Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez says when Donald Trump says immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” he’s talking about her family.
Attorney General Josh Kaul in a speech to Dem Party activists today knocked Republicans for “attacking our voting rights and our freedom to vote.”
Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski urged Dem activists to send a message this fall: “don’t mess with our reproductive rights.”
U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, of Milwaukee, said Democrats shouldn’t criticize the younger generation for speaking out against the war in Gaza. Still, Moore said, “any vote that our coalition members casts for somebody other than Joe Biden is a vote for Donald Trump.”
U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Town of Vermont, says this fall is about the “three Bs”: Biden, Baldwin and blue majorities.
Senate Minority Leader Dianne Hesselbein, of Middleton, at the state Dem Party convention today said after years of Republican control in the Legislature, “their time for accountability is now.”
State Rep. Deb Andraca says the Assembly Dems’ club of “district flippers” is about to grow.
State and national Dem Party leaders today touted their infrastructure heading into the fall election, boasting they’ve opened 200 offices across battleground states while describing the GOP and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump as in “chaos.”
As the party gathers in Milwaukee this weekend for its state convention, Wikler ticked off a series of factors he believes are in Dems’ favor going into this fall in the race for the White House, including the significant head start the party has in building out infrastructure in Wisconsin. One of the main challenges, he said, is reaching those voters who aren’t necessarily tuned into the race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
A committee of the state Dem Party is urging activists at this weekend’s convention to vote against two resolutions calling for an immediate ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas over concerns they don’t condemn the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.
Both voiced optimism at a WisPolitics luncheon about their parties’ futures despite recent losses.
Those who will be on the ballot for chair are: 3rd CD Dem Chair William Garcia, former party Executive Director Devin Remiker and operative Joe Zepecki.
Delegates at the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s state convention backed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Palestine conflict despite opposition from leadership that it failed to mention the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.
Dem party activists elected Tomika Vukovic, a member of the Glendale Common Council, and Arvina Martin, the executive director of Emerge Wisconsin, to the DNC. The delegates also reelected by acclimation Alex Lasry, a former Milwaukee Bucks exec who serves in the Biden administration, and Eau Claire Ald. Andrew Werthmann. They were the only two candidates who qualified for the race.
Five months out from the November election, there’s been a steady stream of polls showing minority voters are less enthusiastic about Biden than they were in 2020. And there has been particular attention paid to Black men. Some of those surveys have shown an openness about voting for Trump this fall.
Need an easy laugh at the Dem state convention while addressing party activists? Take a shot at Donald Trump’s legal troubles.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, delivering the keynote address to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s state convention, gave activists one charge for this fall: win.
DNC Chair Jaime Harrison today urged Democrats to vote in the 2024 election, describing the election as a struggle of hope against fear.
A half dozen pro-Palestinian protests were escorted out of the Dem state convention after they interrupted U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s speech.
Gov. Tony Evers ticked off accomplishments he attributed to Democrats, including increases in shared revenue funding for municipalities, affordable housing investments, repairing roads and keeping the Brewers in Milwaukee. Evers said Dems have faced “near-constant Republican obstruction.”
Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez says when Donald Trump says immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” he’s talking about her family.
Attorney General Josh Kaul in a speech to Dem Party activists today knocked Republicans for “attacking our voting rights and our freedom to vote.”
Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski urged Dem activists to send a message this fall: “don’t mess with our reproductive rights.”
U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, of Milwaukee, said Democrats shouldn’t criticize the younger generation for speaking out against the war in Gaza. Still, Moore said, “any vote that our coalition members casts for somebody other than Joe Biden is a vote for Donald Trump.”
U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Town of Vermont, says this fall is about the “three Bs”: Biden, Baldwin and blue majorities.
Senate Minority Leader Dianne Hesselbein, of Middleton, at the state Dem Party convention today said after years of Republican control in the Legislature, “their time for accountability is now.”
State Rep. Deb Andraca says the Assembly Dems’ club of “district flippers” is about to grow.
State and national Dem Party leaders today touted their infrastructure heading into the fall election, boasting they’ve opened 200 offices across battleground states while describing the GOP and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump as in “chaos.”
As the party gathers in Milwaukee this weekend for its state convention, Wikler ticked off a series of factors he believes are in Dems’ favor going into this fall in the race for the White House, including the significant head start the party has in building out infrastructure in Wisconsin. One of the main challenges, he said, is reaching those voters who aren’t necessarily tuned into the race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
A committee of the state Dem Party is urging activists at this weekend’s convention to vote against two resolutions calling for an immediate ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas over concerns they don’t condemn the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.