Citizen Action Weekend ’26 Newsletter, Friday, July 17th
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Citizen Action of Wisconsin Endorses Francesca Hong for Governor
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After a long highly democratic endorsement process that deeply engaged our most active member leaders across the state and all the major candidates that our Board of Directors voted to endorse Francesca Hong for Governor.
Wisconsinites in every region and walk of life are fed up with the artificial constraints placed on what the state government can accomplish to improve people’s lives and provide the best opportunity to thrive.
Francesca Hong is the candidate most firmly committed to using the full democratic power of state government to wrestle control from the massive corporate monopolies that have for too long held a hammerlock on state policy.
The corrupting power of these monopolies is making the basics of life unaffordable and suppressing wages. It is why the state government is greenlighting deeply unpopular data centers rammed through by an unholy alliance of Big Tech and utility monopolies. It is why massive hospital monopolies, big insurance and Big Pharma are left in control to set grossly inflated prices, effectively leaving foxes in charge of the hen house. It is why a massive income redistribution to the ultra wealthy and the most well-connected corporations has left a stunning 60% of Americans worrying about affording the basics of life, while in Wisconsin 35% of all households, and 60% of Black households, make less than a survival income.
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Francesca Hong has staked out strong positions on Citizen Action’s top public priorities: affordable health care, the climate and energy affordability crisis, and raising wages.
- Francesca Hong is the only candidate who supports pausing data center construction until there is a strong regulatory framework in place that assures they will not accelerate the climate crisis or raise utility rates, are powered by cheap 100% clean renewable energy, and are only built and operated by union workers with the approval of local residents.
- Francesca Hong supports dramatically expanding access to affordable health care by enacting a BadgerCare Public Option which doubles eligibility for BadgerCare and guarantees all our neighbors and small businesses a public alternative to unaffordable corporate health insurance.
- Francesca Hong is the only candidate who supports capping utility rates at 2% of income, guaranteeing that every Wisconsinite can afford to keep the lights, heat, and air on.
- Francesca Hong strongly supports raising the minimum wage to $20 per hour to ensure no matter where you work in Wisconsin, you will earn a living wage.
- Francesca Hong is committed to taking pricing power away from the big hospital and health insurance monopolies by setting a fair affordable price for medical care.
We believe that Francesca Hong is the best candidate to meet the moment by restoring a vibrant popular democracy that acts in the interest of average Wisconsinites, not the corporate monopolies that dominate state government. She understands that the threat to democracy is both an increasingly lawless federal administration and the deep corruption of all levels of government by monopoly interests that are pricing working and middle class Wisconsinities out of the American dream.
As Fighting Bob La Follette did over 100 years ago, Francesca will fight to restore a popular democracy that breaks the power of corporate monopolies and delivers for average Wisconsinites.
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Citizen Action in the News
See Executive Director announce Citizen Action’s endorsement of Francesca Hong on statewide radio on the Jeff Santos Show (1 hour 35 minute mark in video).
Also see coverage of Citizen Action’s endorsement from Wisconsin Examiner and CBS 58 Milwaukee.
Citizen Action members are talking to our neighbors this summer!
Listen to Special Interview with Citizen Action endorsed candidate for governor, Francesca Hong
We welcome Citizen Action’s newly endorsed Governor candidate, State Representative Francesca Hong, to discuss her historic campaign and why Citizen Action members endorsed her in a crowded field of strong candidates.
Following the latest tick report, we dig into the Wisconsin Election Commission finding Elon Musk likely broke the law with $1 million voter checks and referred him to the Brown County District Attorney for criminal investigation and possible prosecution. Does the Brown County DA have the resources to take on a Trillionaire? Finally, we expose the utilities seeking to halt open bidding competition for new power line projects, and billions in proposed rate increases this year alone.
Listen to the show.
