Friday, May 10th The Fight Has Just Begun For Health Care In Wisconsin By: Robert Kraig, executive director Wisconsin’s Republican lawmakers proudly turned their backs on the people of the Badger State when they voted against expanding health coverage to 82,000 people yesterday. But at Citizen Action of Wisconsin, we’re not turning back. We’ll keep fighting until every Wisconsinite gets…
In These Times (April, 2019) It’s Not Enough to Elect Progressive Candidates
Battleground Wisconsin Podcast We discuss Governor Tony Evers media conference reacting to Republican leadership’s plan announced Wednesday to remove BadgerCare expansion from the state budget. Evers declared he would “fight like hell” to win and he needed peoples help. We also talk about Gov. Evers’ Thursday meeting with Foxconn executive Terry Gou and May Day here and abroad. We also…
Friday, April 12th Citizen Action members let the Joint Finance Committee know what was a priority for them in the next version of the Wisconsin state budget. Popular topics were accepting the BadgerCare expansion money from the Federal government, raising the wage to help solve the long term care worker shortage, keeping pre-existing conditions protections, marijuana legalization, fair maps, and…
We review this week’s spring election results which saw new progressive gains in cities and a conservative voter surge behind right-wing Judge Hagedorn. We talk about the historic victory for public schools in Milwaukee and election of young progressive mayors in Green Bay, Oshkosh and Madison. We dissect the disappointing Supreme Court result and its implication for the court and…
Friday, April 5th Citizen Action members win in local elections this week! A top goal of Citizen Action’s organizing co-ops is to prioritize recruiting and supporting members running for local and state offices on our long term agenda. In 2018, 70 of our co-op members ran for office. In last nights spring elections 7 co-op members won election!
“Challenging Trump & Foxconn” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast In the first half of our show Rebecca Lynch and Robert Kraig discuss the current field of Democratic presidential contenders preparing to challenge Trump in 2020. In the second half of the show, we interview Citizen Action organizer Fabi Maldonado about his courageous effort to challenge Foxconn as a Racine County Supervisor and…
“Scott Walker Alert” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast This week we welcome Rebecca back! We discuss why Scott Walker is out touting a constitutional convention and the ramifications of such an event. The panel also discusses some of the bubbling-up 2020 electoral issues such as dumping the Electoral College, high school students fighting climate change, healthcare, student debt relief and much, much…
Join the State “Joint Finance Committee” public budget hearings… 1. Janesville, Friday April 5th 2. Milwaukee, Thursday April 11th 3. River Falls, Monday April 15th 4. Green Bay, Wednesday April 24th Address and exact time TBA. How do use the invite link: Invite others on Facebook (in a very particular way!) If you have a Facebook profile, a very helpful tactic is…
Friday, March 15th “The Mandela Barnes interview” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast We welcome Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes to discuss his first couple of months in the office and the his vision for creating opportunity in Wisconsin over the next few years. In our third installment of Sarah “what the Godlewski does the state treasurer do?” We review her effort to help…
