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FDL Party Headquarters Grand Opening Celebration
The Fond du Lac County Democratic Party Headquarters Grand Opening celebration will be held on Saturday, July 29th from 6-9 p.m. at our fabulous new office located at 49 N. Main Street in Fond du Lac.
This year Lautenschlager, Doyle, and Kohl lead the ticket, while a mean spirited anti-gay amendment threatens to rally conservatives to the polls.
If we are to re-elect our homegrown Attorney General as well as our Democratic Governor and Senator we need to galvanize our ward leader program that worked so hard and so well in 2004.
Invited guests include Wisconsin's Attorney General, Peg Lautenschlager, Representatives from the campaigns of Governor Jim Doyle and Senator Herb Kohl, State Democratic Party Chair, Joe Wineke, 6th CD Chair, Gordon Hintz and other local electeds and hopefuls. Visit with ward captains, new activists, and long-time party faithful.
Hope Winship, a DNC field coordinator is already on the ground in the Fox Valley and may join us as well.
New Badger Poll Shows Lautenschlager with Significant Lead Among Democrats and Independents
Lautenschlager leads Primary opponent by 14 percent among Democrats in New Poll
Madison, WI
In a Badger Poll conducted by the University of Wisconsin Research Center, which was released today, Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager holds a commanding lead over her primary opponent, Kathleen Falk, among Democrats and Independents. Those groups make up the most likely voters in a Democratic Primary.
Among Democrats, Lautenschlager leads Falk by nearly 14 percent, 37.1% to 23.2% and also leads among Independents. In the WPR-St. Norbert's Survey taken in April, the last public poll to survey the Attorney General primaries in Wisconsin, Lautenschlager held a ten percent lead over Falk among Democrats.
"The Badger Poll confirms what we already know, the Lautenschlager campaign is continuing on the right track and increasing our margin among the most likely Democratic Primary voters," said Lautenschlager's Campaign Manager Greg Leifer.
"Wisconsin voters truly appreciate Attorney General Lautenschlager's experience and accomplishments. They know Peg will continue to work hard on their behalf on issues such as preventing internet crimes against children, fighting methamphetamine use, and taking on high drug and gas prices," Leifer said.
http://www.Peg2006.org
CONTACT INFORMATION
http://www.BarbaraLawton.com
e-mail: info@barbaralawton.com
Campaign phone: 608-577-9675
Campaign address: PO Box 1270
Madison, WI 53701-1270
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Grassroots Effort for Senator Feingold:
Senator Feingold is committed to expanding the grassroots effort you have helped build, and utilizing it to help other progressive Democratic candidates get elected to state and local office throughout Wisconsin.
To be part of the grassroots efforts, contact:
Paula Zellner
State Field Director
Feingold Senate Committee
619 W. Richmond St.
Shawano, WI 54166
(cell) 715-340-6567
(office) 715-524-5732
zellner@russfeingold.org
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Awesome Websites
http://www.thewheelerreport.com
http://wispolitics.com
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Democratic Party of Wisconsin 2006 Platform
DPW 2006 Platform
As Adopted at State Convention on June 9, 2006
Preamble
The Democratic Party of Wisconsin strives to build a strong, just and open society where all citizens are respectful of one another and have equal opportunities to live meaningful, secure lives. We work actively for open and honest government that is responsive and accountable to the needs and the will of the people.
Platform
Our government must support values common to all people, which include freedom, family, fairness, responsibility, and community.
One of the primary jobs of government is to ensure that everyone can lead dignified, healthy, and fulfilling lives. We value love, commitment, stability and nurturing of all family members. Our Constitution guarantees that we are all equal regardless of race, color, religion, actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, age, occupation, national origin, physical disabilities or appearance, or political beliefs. We fight to ensure that these basic civil liberties are forever preserved.
We are adamantly opposed to amending either Constitution in a way that limits the rights of any citizens.
We oppose legislation that would try to limit, or take away, any of our civil liberties. We must maintain checks and balances among the three branches of government.
Government must protect the constitutional rights of citizens while effectively reducing crime and fighting terrorism.
We are committed to the idea of fairness and will work to ensure that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed, an equal voice in government, and fair and equal treatment under the law.
The government must comply with open meeting and public record laws, enact legislation for full public funding for all state and national elections, while ensuring that every citizen has a guaranteed right and equal access to vote. We have the right to inspect and count votes and have a paper ballot to insure voting accountability.
We respect the rights of all people to their religious beliefs and welcome all citizens into the Democratic Party regardless of their beliefs. It is vital that we observe a strict separation between government and religion. It remains the right of citizens to choose their own religious and philosophical beliefs rather than the government imposing any upon them.
We must develop a fair immigration policy providing a reasonable and legal path to residency and citizenship and a fair opportunity for current undocumented residents to achieve legal status.
We need affordable, quality, licensed daycare centers and government support to pay for childcare. We cannot afford to neglect our nation's future leaders. We need health education and disease prevention programs concerning smoking, alcohol, and sexually transmitted infections.
We must preserve Social Security. Privatizing Social Security threatens the financial security of those who are most vulnerable. It is important that we enhance programs for the aging and disabled, including subsidized long term in-home or nursing home care.
We firmly believe access to affordable health care is a national right and that the best solution to our national health care crisis is a single- payer system that provides universal access, promotes preventive measures, and covers all physical and mental illnesses equally. Until that necessary system is made available, we support broader coverage and increased funding for the current health care programs on local, state and national levels, such as BadgerCare and Medicaid.
Personal moral, religious, and medical decisions should be left up to the individual. We believe in complete freedom of reproductive choice, as well as the individual's right to choose death with dignity.
Funding for stem cell research should not be influenced by religious beliefs, this research, …. should be supported on its scientific merits.
We oppose the death penalty as an inhumane and ineffective means of punishment. We believe in equitable sentencing standards and increasing the authority of duly elected judges to modify sentences.
We support reasonable firearms regulations to ensure the safety of citizens and law enforcement officials. We support the right to hunt and bear arms. We support safety measures and Wisconsin's concealed carry ban.
We advocate strengthening consumer protection laws and returning enforcement authority to the Wisconsin Department of Justice. We support accurate, understandable labeling of food and medicinal products.
Any form of public funding for private schools diverts resources from and adversely impacts public schools. Increased governmental funding is essential for all levels of public education, from early childhood programs to programs providing financial aid for attendance at UW and Technical College Systems.
We believe that students have the right to receive their education in a safe, respectful, and nurturing environment, free from harassment or discrimination by teachers, staff, parents, or other students.
Wisconsin's educational funding system has failed. The law allowing a limited qualified economic offer (QEO) has caused decreasing compensation for teachers. Teacher compensation should keep pace with the costs of benefits and inflation.
Business, labor, and the public must work together to re-establish American jobs on American soil and resist outsourcing, thus reinvigorating domestic industries.
We believe workers have rights to safe and equitable workplaces, living wages, and secure benefits. They must be guaranteed the right to organize, bargain collectively, and strike in order to secure those rights, without fear of reprisal.
We support public employee's rights to speedy mediation and binding arbitration of labor disputes.
It is crucial that we support a tax system that is based on ability to pay. It is immoral to increase the tax burden on the lower and middle classes by cutting taxes for the wealthiest among us.
We must balance the Federal budget through wise spending and fair taxation
Our wealth should be measured not only by the GDP but also by broad measures of well being, such as the United Nations Human Development Index, that incorporate factors like health, education, literacy, employment and wages, and environmental quality.
We must preserve family farming by creating market systems that assure a fair return to both the farmer and the processor, support value added agriculture, and provide price supports for true family farms.
We support affordable quality health care, public education and social services for all citizens in rural Wisconsin. Excessive development of corporate animal mega-farms is detrimental to the health and quality of life in rural areas and must be controlled.
We must enact legislation and provide adequate funding to protect and preserve our environment.
We must reduce greenhouse gases by developing alternative fuels and energy sources, increase production of fuel efficient vehicles, reduce urban sprawl onto prime agricultural soils, improve and expand local, regional, and national mass transportation systems and increase recycling and waste management, all while maintaining biodiversity.
We will restore responsible environmental regulations affecting open space, wilderness areas, soil conservation, forest management, toxic and hazardous waste disposal and cleanup, and watershed protection.
We call for the use of advanced technology and environmentally friendly practices to be implemented in mining domestic natural resources, and the enforcement and strengthening of safety regulations.
To ensure the protection of our state's valuable natural resources, we support the re- establishment of a Public Intervener's Office and the creation of an independent Department of Natural Resources.
Our nation must seek to befriend others and encourage the growth of democracy worldwide. We must address the grievances and problems that foster terrorism, rather than fight wars that perpetuate them.
We pledge the United States to be a cooperative and effective leader and partner with allied nations in the fight against terrorism and the pursuit of global accords on human rights, economic justice, ecological protection and alleviation of disease.
We respect the religions of other cultures and will not use religious beliefs as a rationale for going to war.
All branches of our Government and military must conform to the Geneva Conventions and not tolerate the use of torture.
We must do everything possible to prevent our enemies from attacking us, but we believe that this can be done without sacrificing the civil rights guaranteed under the Constitution.
We call for American occupation forces in Iraq to be withdrawn at the earliest possible time. Multi-lateral reconstruction of Iraq can be achieved with American participation and international participation so that the Iraqi people can freely and peacefully determine their own future.
We support working with nations and organizations that support fair trade.
We support cooperative efforts to eliminate global pollution and mitigate the effects of global warming.
For more information:
http://www.wisdems.org/
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