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Letters are limited to 250 words.  Fill out this form and write or copy and paste your letter in the box provided You will receive a call to verify it was you who sent the letter.   POTENTIAL LEDE: The Constiution is meant to be sacred and treated seriously. It is not meant to be used to effect policy change you failed to get through via the legislative process. Yet that is how Republicans have been using our sacred document the past six years. Vote No on all three Constitutional Amendments, especially on Question 2  In the past six years, the GOP has proposed 13 Constitutional Amendments after just three the previous decade. Republicans are using the amendment process because they can’t get their wish list past Gov. Evers veto pen. This is the way divided government is meant to work. This is not the proper use of amendments and weakens our Constitution and our democracy. Almost none of those 13 initiatives have pertained to the Constitution but have instead been GOP pol...

Letters are limited to 250 words.  Fill out this form and write or copy and paste your letter in the box provided You will receive a call to verify it was you who sent the letter.   Rick Crosson – It’s important we tie Tony Weid to Trump Sample lede (make it your own) I don’t know about you, but I’ve had enough of the corruption and incompetence coming out of the current White House. Whether it’s:  unthinking wars that have no end in sight The high costs of those wars and the increased prices for groceries and gas it has caused Tariffs that have upended the growing economy that Trump inherited, resulting in economic stagnation and higher prices $3 trillion in tax cuts for corporations, donors and the wealthiest among us combined with higher health costs and low wages for the working class Corruption on a level we’ve never seen, with the President openly violating the emoluments clause and adding $2 billion to his wealth Wasteful spending on ballrooms and tributes to hims...

Letters are limited to 250 words.  Fill out this form and write or copy and paste your letter in the box provided You will receive a call to verify it was you who sent the letter.   LEE SNODGRASS SAMPLE LEDE (make it your own): I am once again making the easiest political decision I’ve ever had to make: supporting Lee Snodgrass for re-election to the State Assembly in District 52. She shows up in and for her community. She has been deeply involved in helping during crises and spent a week in Menasha during the cleanup. She knocks thousands of doors to listen to the concerns of voters. She focuses on the district and leaves the divisive nonsense to others. She works for her district and secured $5 million in Non-state grant money for such things as a childcare center in downtown Appleton, support for the Building for Kids, an addiction center and a sports complex.  She supports public education, affordable childcare, affordable healthcare, protection of our parks and publ...

Letters are limited to 250 words.  Fill out this form and write or copy and paste your letter in the box provided You will receive a call to verify it was you who sent the letter.   DAVID CROWLEY (it's critical to tie Tiffany to Trump in your letter) SAMPLE BEGINNING (make it your own): I don’t know about you, but I’ve had enough of the corruption and incompetence coming out of the current White House. Whether it’s:  unthinking wars that have no end in sight The high costs of those wars and the increased prices for groceries and gas it has caused Tariffs that have upended the growing economy that Trump inherited, resulting in economic stagnation and higher prices $3 trillion in tax cuts for corporations, donors and the wealthiest among us combined with higher health costs and low wages for the working class Corruption on a level we’ve never seen, with the President openly violating the emoluments clause and adding $2 billion to his wealth Wasteful spending on ballrooms ...

Below is the overview of the Common Council's discussion of how to reign in APLRs and mass surveillance technology. If you support this resolution please consider sending an email -- using any of the talking points below or in your own words -- asking them to pass it.  See the resolution here  (It will send you to another link but you can open it there) Read Alder Van Zeeland's essay   to familiarize yourself if you want. Send email to entire council here  before Tuesday night (Be sure and select All Districts). TALKING POINTS BELOW Alderpersons Fenton and Van Zeeland have introduced a resolution (#9-R-26 ) that sets necessary guardrails on the Appleton Police Department’s use of Automated License Plate Readers (APLRs) and other mass surveillance technology. The details of the resolution all fall within the scope of the Council’s legislative purview. A citizen-based group seeks to defeat this resolution in favor of its own, which, while noble in its purpose, falls we...

  By Trisha Kostelny, Political Outreach Chair Thanks to everyone involved in our Spring election! We had some very big wins, from Chris Taylor for Supreme Court to almost all of the local candidates we supported. Taylor won by 20 points statewide and by 16 in Outagamie County, meaning the Outagamie shift from Donald Trump's win in 2024 was more than 26 points. People across the county knew the stakes and voted accordingly. Springtime is always challenging as candidates work for name recognition and to let the voters know who they are and what they stand for. They did the work. And even though we had a limited number of canvassers this spring, we still accomplished a great deal.  In county board races, we held on to two contested seats – Steve Thiede and Jerry Zabronsky. Two first-time candidates – Amy Ristow and Carla Hales – ousted Republican incumbents. And we found two other first-time candidates for vacant seats and now Pamela Saulnier and Patrick Amerson are set to ...