WISCONSIN FOCUS: Endorsement Roundup for CRITICAL April 5th Eleection in Wisconsin

With right wing extremist Republican/teabaggers in Wisconsin trying to bust unions for the benefit of the Billionaire Koch Brothers of NYC, April 5's elections in Wisconsin are a prime opportunity for pro-union progressives to push back.

It is CRITICAL that every pro-union progressive voter in Wisconsin VOTE on April 5th. Here are the endorsements of local progressive and union organizations I could track down (mainly union and gay rights groups). I include links to some of the candidates' websites in the first set of endorsements (almost all the endorsements are the same, indicating a very close agreement between labor and gay rights organizations). Here they are:

SEIU Wisconsin State Council Announces Spring 2011 Endorsements

Chris Abele – Milwaukee County Executive (CRITICAL RACE...this was Scott Walker's old seat, so electing Abele would send a very clear message)

Ken Hall – Racine County Executive (Ken Hall has been supported by Progressive Majority since he first ran for office)

JoAnne Kloppenburg – State Supreme Court Justice (THE MOST CRITICAL RACE!!!)

Jason Haas – Milwaukee County Board District 14 (Another important race...Haas' opponent is a right wing extremist Teabagger)

Meagan Holman – Milwaukee School Board District 8 (EXCELLENT candidate...she has also been endorsed by various teachers' unions)

Joe Parisi – Dane County Executive

Eyon Biddle – Milwaukee County Supervisor District 10

Pedro Colón – Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Branch 18

Steve Doyle – Assembly District 94

Terry Falk – Milwaukee School Board At Large

Gerald Glazer – Milwaukee School Board District 2

Tom Nelson – Outagamie County Executive

Dave Cieslewicz – Madison Mayor (Website has a GREAT Union Solidarity photo!)


Milwaukee Area Labor Council AFL-CIO Endorsements: (via email)

o JoAnne Kloppenburg – Wisconsin Supreme Court

o Chris Abele – Milwaukee County Executive

o Pedro Colon – Milwaukee Circuit Court, Branch 18

o Eyon Biddle – Milwaukee County Supervisor, District 10

o Jason Haas – Milwaukee County Supervisor, District 14

o Terry Falk – School Board, At-Large

o Michael Bonds – School Board, District 3

o Meagan Holman – School Board, District 8

o Mark Sain – School Board, District 1


FAIR WISCONSIN PAC ENDORSEMENTS:
Fair Wisconsin PAC endorses candidates running for office who advocate for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

COUNTY EXEC:

DANE: Joe Parisi
MILWAUKEE: Chris Abele
OUTAGAMIE: Thomas Nelson

COUNTY BOARD:

MILWAUKEE:
Eyon Biddle, District 10
Jason Haas, District 14

MAYOR:

GREEN BAY: Pat Evans
MADISON: Dave Cieslewicz
OSHKOSH: Tony Palmeri
STEVENS POINT: Mike Wiza

CITY COUNCIL:

BELOIT: Mark Spreitzer
JANESVILLE: Sam Liebert

LA CROSSE:
Bill Brockmiller, District 13
Marilyn Wigdahl, District 16

MADISON:
Fair Wisconsin PAC invited all candidates in all contested districts to seek an endorsement. Bold indicates that only one candidate in the district returned our questionnaire.

District 1: Lisa Subeck
District 2: Sam Stevenson
District 6: Marsha Rummel and Twink Jan-McMahon
District 7: Steve King and Nathan Judnic
District 8: Scott Resnick
District 10: Brian Solomon and Tom Farley
District 11: Chris Schmidt and Brandon White
District 13: Sue Ellingson
District 14: Anita Weier
District 20: Matt Phair

OSHKOSH: Jef Hall

JUDICIAL: Pedro Colon, Branch 18

ASSEMBLY SPECIAL ELECTION: Steve Doyle, AD 94


Equality Wisconsin
Vote for these LGBT Allies on April 5th

Supreme Court Justice: Joanne F. Kloppenburg
http://www.kloppenburgforjustice.com/

Milwaukee County Executive: Chris Abele
http://www.chrisabele.com/

Milwaukee County Supervisor, 10th District: Eyon Biddle
http://www.biddleformilwaukee.com/

Milwaukee County Supervisor, 14th District: Jason Haas
http://www.haasformilwaukee.com/

Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge: Pedro Colon
http://www.judgepedrocolon.com/

Milwaukee Public School Board: Terry Falk, City Wide
http://www.falk4kids.com/

I.B.E.W. Local Union 890 Endorsements for the upcoming April 5th Elections

Beloit City Council: Mark Spreitzer

Beloit School Board: Ruben Rodriguez, Mike Ramsdail

Beloit Township: Tim Guenther

Town of Turtle: Roger Anclam

Janesville City Council: Russ Steeber, George Brunner, Sam Liebert, Deborah Dongarra Adams

Janesville School Board: Kevin Murray, Fred Shahlapour

Wisconsin Supreme Court: JoAnne Kloppenburg


VOTE APRIL 5TH!!!!

And while you are at it, Sign Republican Recall Petition At Polling Places April 5th. Once we win big on April 5th the next big push will be to recall the anti-union Republicans who broke the law to pass their union-busting bill.


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