Clean Water and GOP Special Interests Are Front-and-Center in Two Wisconsin Special Elections

Ann  Grves Lloyd faces a Republican family abuser today.

Patt Pisellini of Rome (Adams County) in central Wisconsin frightens Republican politicians.

If you've read her prose, you can understand why.

Pisellini demands that Wisconsin Republicans do their jobs for the Wisconsin people, and not the special interests such as factory farm corporations.

Write Pisellini today:

Water is a key issue today as Wisconsin is holding two special elections that were blocked by a frightened Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans until judges ordered Walker to hold the elections in a series of April rulings.

Who did Republicans come up with for candidates?

In Wisconsin's 42nd assembly district in south-central Wisconsin, Ann Groves Lloyd (D) faces family abuser Jon Plumer (R).

Plumer's campaign is running an ad of Plumer's wife defending Plumer, looking every bit the hostage reading a statement written by an abuser.

Plumer is a certain vote for Republican orthodoxy on water which means water is for Foxconn and Big Ag but not for families.

Noted former Republican State Sen. Dale Schultz on Republican demands of Party loyalty:

"When some think-tank comes up with the legislation and tells you not to fool with it, why are you even a legislator anymore? You just sit there and take votes and you're kind of a feudal serf for folks with a lot of money," (Craver, The Capital Times).

"I think increasingly legislation is coming to the legislature entirely pre-packaged. And anybody who wants to work on it, who wants to think about it, or wants to change it gets in trouble," (Craver, The Capital Times). 

Lloyd is favored by insiders to win this one going away.
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In the other special election in northeastern Wisconsin Sen. District One, Republicans offer up a rightwing, fundamentalist State Rep. Andre Jacque, who in sum wants to outlaw abortion, birth control, anything deterring women from their god-sanctioned station in life.

Jon Plumer, wife and daughter beater, and Andre Jacque, extremist whack.

This is the face of the Republican Party which demands its state officeholders vote for Party.

Plumer faces Caleb Frostman (D - Sturgeon Bay) today.

Frostman offers what used to be a bi-partisan consensus in rural Wisocnsin stressing opportunity, investment and conservation.

The Frostman-Jacque race is trickier for Dems because the Republican gerrymander of this state senate district is more severe. Still Frostman is a slight favorite.