Democrats Need to Learn How to Speak about Liberty

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Fitchburg, Wisconsin—Wrote a piece eight years ago on voting rights work by city of Madison, Wisconsin, (In These Times).

Imagine a municipality affirmatively advancing the personal liberty of voting, a fundamental Constitutional right. That's what Madison, and other Wisconsin municipalities did.

But I had trouble getting a decent quote from Madison, and had to settle for Madison City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl's statement. "Our goal is for each eligible voter to be able to cast a ballot and have that ballot counted."

Witzel-Behl's statement is bureaucratic, almost defensive, and neither mentions or shows explicit reverence to people's personal liberty to vote. Typical Democrat. No values, no understanding of what voting means as a liberty.

Liberty is ours, and Democrats don't get that.

That's because Witzel-Behl and virtually every Wisconsin Democrat in office do not believe in our foundational liberty of voting in Wisconsin, under Article III, Suffrage, Wisconsin Constitution. Democrats are little more than victims from multi-front attacks on cherished liberties. 

And federally, with a few exceptions, national Democrats are not much better. See Democracy Docket for an example of how to talk about and litigate liberty.

If Democrats want to establish a political culture defending and advocating for Constitutionally guaranteed liberties such as voting rights, they have failed—a dangerous defect when judicial supremacy reigns under a Republican judicial assault against liberty led by Republican partisans on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Civil Rights Movement

Memphis, Tennessee, USA, Civil Rights Marchers with 
"I Am A Man" Signs, 1968—Image Bettmann/CORBIS
Zinn Education Project

The 1950s-60s-70s succeeded culturally, legislatively and in federal court because grassroots Americans and citizen groups presented clear, moral and constitutionally grounded arguments for liberty, equality and the promise of America.

No DEI, no politically correct, scolding semantics, no identity-politics polemics that today seeks to foist and instruct a flight from reason onto the grassroots whose duty is perceived as mindless compliance.

Voting is your liberty, voting is your right. Anybody tries to stop you has to answer to us. That' needs to be the political message. This commitment and political statement is something we rarely get from Democrats.

The current assault on voting ofcourse is a long project of Republicans.

Wisconsin 2008 Voter Obstruction Effort

Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen and the Republican Party leveled their guns to obstruct voting rights on Wisconsin in 2008, lest too many of the wrong type of voters showed up for Obama.

Trump is attempting to replicate what Van Hollen wanted.

See Van Hollen's and the GOP 2008 efforts at voter suppression in which Van Hollen's ridiculous effort was tossed out of court.

In the 2008 case, (J B Van Hollen vs. Government Accountability Board (GAB) et al) Van Hollen tried to create a new Wisconsin constitutional qualification to vote by fiat: A perfect match of spelling of voters' names in state bureaucracies, after first secretly assuring fellow Republicans he would commence this frivolous legal action at the 2008 Republican National Convention held in Minneapolis, as first reported by WisPolitics in a scoop that includes audio.

Several former judges serving on the state Elections Board would have failed Van Hollen's new constitutional standard proposed in 2008, as this GOP effort drew wide ridicule and defeat in court.

"Nothing in state or federal law requires that there be a data match as a prerequisite for a citizen's right to vote," Judge Maryann Sumi said in dismissing Van Hollen's lawsuit that tried to use the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) as a voter suppression tool.

Today, Trump is attempting his similar anti-voting project by trying to nationalize state-administered elections. Trump is trying to create federal bureaucratic lists of state voters, and appointing his administration as the sole deciders who determine who gets to vote, based on bureaucratic and documentary exact matches of voters' names with mandated new documentation.

Elected Democrats need to comprehend and explain what Trump and Republicans are up to: Creation of anti-voting federal bureaucracies, unconstitutional bureaucracies, and simply speak out in clear terms: Don't fuck with voters.

I have my doubts Democrats' are equipped to stand with voters.

Wisconsin Voters Don't Need Dem Party Insiders to Make Choice for Them — People over Party Always

Madison, Wisconsin — After eight years of incompetent opposition to the Republican Party, one might believe the Wisconsin Democratic Party establishment would be hands-off the gubernatorial primary to face Gov. Scott Walker (R) this Fall.

Hands-off is decidedly not the posture of Party insiders — State Rep. Chris Taylor (D-Madison) and myriad made members of the gang that can't shoot straight — who bequeathed to us Hillary Clinton as the presidential nominee in the DNC-rigged 2016 primary and ultimately the lunatic in the White House, (Blogging Blue).

@WisDems establishment says 'trust us to decide for you' after years of feckless opposition to @ScottWalker. I want @ForwardWFlynn, followed by @MahlonMitchell, @VinehoutK, @Paulsoglin, @keldahelenroys. Don't want @McDenimRebel, @Tony4WI; establishment can fuck off any time now. https://t.co/idlyGSFhBe

— Michael Leon (@mal644) July 20, 2018

As a lifetime Wisconsin voter, I never properly thanked the Democratic Party establishment for Trump, or for that matter Scott Walker's reelection in 2014, or sabotaging Peg Lautenschlager's reelection as attorney general in 2006, all to predictably catastrophic consequence.

Democratic Party pols launched a voter suppression campaign this Spring to defeat the progressive reformer, Matt Flynn, so the Walkerish sleaze operation deserves repeated exposure and challenge.

As Terrance Warthen, co-chair of Our Wisconsin Revolution, said last year "I don't know who the Democratic Party is. I just don't know who they are anymore," (MSNBC, Mal Contends).

I know who the Democratic Party establishment is. What the Dems lack in competence, they make up in deceit and character assassination against the leading candidate to eviscerate Wisconsin's prison state.

Wisconsin Democratic Party insiders have been stinking up the state and destroying lives for decades.

So, Chris Taylor's latest line of crap emitted in the direction of the progressive candidate for governor should be read for what it's worth. Taylor now contends that an attorney who explains she is not responsible for the crimes and sins of clients really means she is against women leaders. This is bullshit.

Dem party insiders should gracefully step aside. We the voters will take it from here.

If, and only if, the Democratic Party establishment is intent on taking away the leading reformist voice, I recommend a sabotage campaign against any other nominee. Stay tuned.

Time for a Political Revolution in New York, Wisconsin, and Everywhere

Lessons from the Bronx and Queens for Wisconsin Dems.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is new face of Democratic Party.
(Scott Heins/Getty Images), (In These Times)

Madison, Wisconsin — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just knocked off a leading corporatist House Democrat who did nothing for mass incarceration, social justice and human dignity during his tenure in Congress.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not come out of nowhere.

But much of corporate media and the Democratic Party can't figure out what to make of the New York congressional primary results this week.

And if you think about it for even a minute, you'll see how incredibly condescending & dismissive is this now-widespread attempt to reduce @Ocasio2018 to nothing more than demographics and an aberrational district. She ran a highly ideological campaign vehemently critical of Dems

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 29, 2018

The Democratic Socialist, which is to say the FDR-Eisenhower-LBJ Socialist, Ocasio-Cortez came from the community.

One hopes Wisconsin Democrats electing a candidate to face Gov. Scott Walker (R) listen to the community as well. Not to the Molochian call for sacrifice to the police state, and character assassination of reformists, not to a small group of people in Madison oozing slime into the political terrain because they know what's best for voters who get to ratify their typically ill-considered decision.

Listen to the community.

Miles Kampf-Lassin reports on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' win for the community, dumping the Democratic Party machine:

"Economic, social and racial dignity for working-class Americans, especially those in Queens and the Bronx. We were very clear about our message, we were very clear about our priorities and very clear about the fact that, even if you’ve never voted before, we are talking to you," (In These Times, quoting from MSNBC, Morning Joe).
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If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were an unknown to most of the nation, she was well-known to readers of In These Times, a good and decent woman who wants to help.
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In Wisconsin, Caleb Frostman (D-Sturgeon Bay) won a special state Senate election earlier this month after Scott Walker and Republicans went to absurd lengths to block the election in the northeastern Wisconsin peninsula.

Frostman was sworn in yesterday in Sturgeon Bay. Here's what Frostman had to say.

From WLUK-TV (Green Bay):

I am ready to serve and represent the people of the 1st State Senate District and look forward to meeting with constituents across the six counties I now represent. Our shared values will guide me in my work as a State Senator, and I will fight every day to expand opportunities and help everyone in our area succeed. I look forward to hearing from community members and encourage everyone to reach out to me for assistance or to talk about how we can improve our local schools and roads, protect access to clean drinking water and our natural resources, and strengthen our local communities.

At the end of a bad two weeks for America leading into the mid-week holiday, Frostman and Ocasio-Cortez offer hope for old-fashioned democracy and decency.

Racine Dems Unhappy with Corporatist Neolibs' Direction

Chris Jansing at MSNBC interviewed five Democratic-leaning
voters in Racine, Wisconsin to take the pulse of a key state.

Madison, Wisconsin—After nearly leading the nation in turn-out for years and becoming a reliably blue state in presidential elections, Wisconsin changed in 2016 due to a combination of Republican-inflicted voter suppression and disgust with Hillary Clinton.

The change still has the national media wondering what's up in Wisconsin.

Chris Jansing at MSNBC interviewed five Democratic-leaning voters in Racine, Wisconsin in an effort to determine the pulse of the Democratic-progressive vote that still comprises a majority here.

The findings presented to Jansing in a wide-ranging interview suggest the Democratic Party is in trouble unless it becomes more progressive and begins to tell its donor base to shut it.

Said Terrance Warthen, co-chair of Our Wisconsin Revolution: "I don't know who the Democratic Party is. I just don't know who they are anymore."

Whoever the Democrats are, Warthen said, "You're going to have to give up the money and go back to the grassroots."

Video of Democratic Voters Unhappy Over Party's Direction is below:

Dane County Assem Race Features Bernie Sanders Man v. Poli Consulting-made Creature

Bernie Sanders and Adam Dahl at the Southern Wisconsin
Regional Airport in Spring 2016 during heart of
the 2016 Democratic presidential primary campaign.
Dahl is a candidate for Wisconsin Assembly District 47
Image: Bernie Sanders 2016

Adam Dahl has it all over Jimmy Anderson in Wisc Dane County Assembly Race

Madison and Fitchburg, Wisconsin — Two candidates are running to fill an open seat in Dane County's progressive 47th state assembly district—Adam Dahl and Jimmy Anderson.

The choice could not be starker. Adam Dahl is an effective advocate for progressive campaigns and causes. Anderson is a multi-millionaire with no experience beyond his repeated refusals to sign the Recall-Scott Walker petition.

The local Democratic Party establishment wants the millionaire and his money, which purchased the services of the full-service, D.C.-based political consulting firm, the Pivot Group. No grassroots support needed.

Wisconsin's 47th assembly district comprises neighborhoods on Madison's east side and a Democratic-progressive mix of scenic municipalities in south-central Dane County. The winner will succeed the outgoing State Rep. Robb Kahl, (D-Monona).

This race illustrates everything that is wrong with politics today. The prime directive that money is more important than people guides local politicos weighing in on the race.

The Bernie Sanders independent, Dahl, has organized more people than Anderson with his money ever will. When Dahl was organizing meet-ups for Howard Dean's 2003-04 campaign, Anderson was in high school in California.

Dahl has spent his adult life doing the hard work that is the life blood of successful campaigns. Not so with Anderson who lists an admiration for TR and FDR, whom he read about, as his progressive bona fides.

Ever wonder who did those Howard Dean meet-ups in 2003-04, the Bernie Sanders 2015-16 work?

Meet Adam Dahl, he's one of those people. Dahl also made 21 small contributions to Sanders' presidential run. He is in politics for the movement.

In 2011, Adam Dahl was active in protesting Act 10, marching around the capitol several times with 10,000s, and he also signed the recall-Scott Walker petition.

Jimmy Anderson refused to sign the Recall-Walker petition, telling the Capital Times in August that his refusal was not the result of ideology, but rather because Anderson believed he could not sign the Recall-Walker petition by "law," because of his disability. This is a ludicrous excuse, but it does illustrate Anderson has little conception of voting rights law.

Anderson told the Capital Times in an otherwise fawning August piece by Todd D. Milewski that, "Whenever (Recall organizers) would approach me, I would tell them that of course I would love to sign it but I just physically can't. And I know that you can't sign it for me because that'd be against the law. I had to decline at the time."

This is wrong. Wrong on the facts, wrong on the law.

Anderson is displaying a complete ignorance of what any circulator of a recall petition or candidate nomination sheet knows well.

Let's take a closer look at the Pivot Group-spun profile of Anderson, accepted uncritically by the Dane County political press.

Jimmy Anderson has a compelling life story. So does Adam Dahl who lost his mother to a hit-and-run accident in Janesville when Dahl was a teenager. Dahl has never stopped working since to help his family.

We wish Anderson well. He does not need the seat for the money, he's fine. But this seat is about a prospective state rep serving the people, not the other way around.

As noted in these pages, Anderson moved into the district from the neighboring district, the result of an apparent assembly seat-shopping excursion.

Anderson was reportedly urged by local activists to get experience before running for state assembly. Anderson ignored the advice and instead loaned his campaign some $100,000 to win the Democratic Party primary on Aug. 9. The political and media establishment jumped on the bandwagon.

After having missed numerous votes as a citizen including two statewide Supreme Court races and a statewide race for Superintendent of Public Instruction, according to data obtained from the Wisconsin Elections Commission site comparing Anderson's voting activity, (BD - 08-26-1986), with elections the past four years, Anderson decided he wanted the assembly seat.

Two pillars of the Pivot Group's creation of Anderson define his campaign: He is a lawyer and anti-drunk driving advocate.

Lawyer who cannot practice law

Anderson cannot practice law, give legal advice or purport to practice law because he listed himself as "inactive status." Yet, Anderson ledes every profile stating he is a lawyer, misrepresenting the above facts, (Mal Contends).

Drunk Driving Front-Group

Anderson tells reporters he is an advocate against drunk driving because his family was killed in a car accident in Stanislaus County California in 2010. Anderson argued in 2011 through his lawyers that Stanislaus County was the culprit for improper signage at a dangerous intersection, (Insurance News).

Anderson is not an improper signage advocate, not a 'Failure to timely install four-way stop resulted in fatal crash' advocate. Not a compelling political story, (Verdict Search). He went after the money and he needed to blame Stanislaus County to get $8 Million, and who can blame him? Not me.

But Anderson's Drive Clear non-profit appears to be a PR website, with little or no activity, (Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions).

Look, Jimmy Anderson is a nice guy and we all wish him luck. He's living as comfortably as possible in a nice Fitchburg home.

The race for Wisconsin State Assembly District 47 is about what these two gentlemen can do for us.

Adam Dahl has it all over Jimmy Anderson.

Wisconsin's Myron Buchholz, Primary Challenger for Congress, Hits TPP, Special Interests, Assualt on Local Control

Myron Buchholz and Family of Eau Claire, Wisconsin -
Retired Teacher Myron Buchholz Mounts
Primary Challenge Against U.S. Rep. Ron Kind,
Answers Bernie Sanders Call for a Political Revolution in
Wisconsin's Historically Independent Third Cong. District

'Congress has completely forgotten the lessons that caused passage of the EPA and our first clean air and water laws in the 70’s. We must revisit them before the corporations suck us dry'

Spoke with the Myron Buchholz (D-Eau Claire) campaign shortly after Buchholz announced his primary challenge against U.S. Rep. Ron Kind (D-La Crosse).

Kind's district includes many rural areas from which residents draw their drinking water from aquifers, and Buchholz blasted politicians who deplete and attack protection of aquifers. 

Buchholz also hit Kind's championing of the American jobs-exporting Trans-Pacific Partnership, (TPP).

Buchholz' said special interests funding Kind inspired Buchholz to run as well.

Below is a follow-up interview with Myron Buchholz.

Question - In light of the Flint tragedy, the proliferation of industrialized agriculture against the small farmer, and the present danger to Wisconsin's fresh water bodies such as the Mississippi, Lake Superior and Lake Michigan (for starters), imperiled by state policy, what would you as a member of Congress work for to protect water, the lifeblood of humanity? What can we do federally?

Buchholz - First we must recognize the extent that the corporate model will go to extract whatever they can until the resource has been depleted. I believe the most obvious example of this is 'Mountain Top Removal.' Any government that allows a mining company to blow the top off of a mountain for one days’ worth of electricity will clearly allow any corporation to deplete any resource till it is gone. The Great Lakes Compact was a major step towards protecting our precious water resources, but as recent events make clear, just because there is an agreement does not mean that it will never be challenged. High capacity wells are another challenge to our water resources. It is one thing to connect a 150HP tractor to a well, and completely another to connect an 800HP tractor. There must be reasonable limits placed on any extraction regardless of the resource. For far too long industry has been able to use 'economic development' as a justification for doing whatever, and it is time to draw some lines. In congress, I will advocate for limits and public control of resources and enforce existing law. It appears Congress has completely forgotten the lessons that caused passage of the EPA and our first clean air and water laws in the 70’s. We must revisit them before the corporations suck us dry.     

Question - The Trans-Pacific Partnership, (TPP), for most folks is D.C. inside baseball. However, without a doubt the consequences of TPP are exporting jobs and industry, and eviscerating the rights of U.S. citizens by selling out our environmental, labor and consumer rights to transnational corporations with no allegiance to America.  Your opponent, Rep. Ron Kind, is all for the fast-tracked TPP which likely will not get a vote before the 2016 election. You are against the TPP, a special interest, massive investor rights agreement that shuts out people.  Does this description seem fair and accurate?

Buchholz - The TPP is NAFTA on steroids. Stopping it is the main reason I decided to take on Mr. Kind. We already have examples of how these agreements remove local control and are undemocratic in nature. The corporate model is based on greed, and we have learned that their greed knows no bounds. Therefore, giving corporations more control than they already have absolutely scares the hell out of me. Examples abound, but the removal of Country of Origin Labeling on meat should be enough to shock the electorate into stopping the power grab. It seems patently ridiculous that I can know where my shirt is made, but not where my hamburger comes from.      

Question - What has gone wrong with American politicians of both parties? Did selling out the people to special interests suddenly displace working for the people whom elected representatives are supposed to protect? What's your narrative on this on what has happened to America?

Buchholz - Why is it that a candidate for almost any office is judged by how much money can be raised to campaign? I have come to the conclusion that a candidate should be judged by how cheaply and efficiently one can run a campaign, not on how much money one can throw at the election industry that has grown large during my lifetime. I get solicitations on almost a daily basis from companies who want to sell services. How can we expect Congress to efficiently manage money when campaigns, especially incumbents, exist on an almost unlimited budget? The average work year for Congress in recent years is 115 days. That leaves way too much time to fundraise. We need have public financing of elections if there is going to be any hope of getting back to a citizen legislature.  I propose that no congressional candidate should be able to spend twice the congressional income on any election. For the US Congress, that is still $348,000!  The only occupation in America where one spends millions getting a job that pays $174,000 is the US Congress. Those millions come mainly from those with deep pockets who expect something in return. Of course, overturning 'Citizens United' would help a little, but we had a terrible problem before that misguided Supreme Court ruling. I also realize that our present congress will never vote to limit fundraising, so any change will have to come through the amendment process.           

Wisconsin Dem. Party Chair Blocks Grassroots Congressional Run

Citizens from Wisconsin and Minnesota gathered outside
Rep. Ron Kind’s Eau Claire office last June to urge
Kind to stop Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority
Photo: Wisconsin AFL-CIO

In the tradition of Bob La Follette voters should pick their representatives, not party bosses.

Not so says the Democratic Party of Wisconsin (DPW).

The Democratic Party of Wisconsin (DPW) Chair, Martha Laning, won her election in June 2015 promising to cultivate a progressive, grassroots-supporting agenda over party insiders, (Talaga, Isthmus).

It didn't take long for Laning to sell out and break promises, and in a presidential election year no less, betraying La Follette and the Wisconsin people who should be welcomed into the DPW, not shooed away.

In a year rife with congressional primary challenges nationwide, (Bland, Meyer, Schneider and Robillard, The Politico), Wisconsin's first major congressional primary challenge comes from progressive Democrat Myron Buchholz of Eau Claire in Wisconsin's third congressional district.

Buchholz quickly found the DPW is run with broken promises, outright lies and disregard to internal Party rules from Chair Martha Laning.

Laning's months-long tenure at DPW has already earned the moniker the "incumbent protection plan," protecting party insiders from the people whom they are elected to represent and progressives working on behalf of citizens against special interests.

Rep. Ron Kind (D-Wisconsin) was first elected to office in 1996 and became so immersed in Washington politics and out-of-touch with his district, Kind champions the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) treaty.

The TPP is a give-away to transnational corporations, foreign interests, and hedge fund investors. The consequences of TPP would be the accelerated flight of American jobs and industry, and the substituting of citizens' legal environmental, labor and consumer protections with the full force of special interest law.

Think NAFTA's giant sucking sound, multiplied by 1,000 and the reality of TPP, (not voted on yet), and you'll get the picture of this potential restructuring of American society not exactly responsive to citizen voices anymore. Kind made news when he tried to explain why he received over $16,000 in money from the Koch brothers, (Craver, The Capital Times). Now there's a new kind of Democrat.

Democratic Party Obstruction to Grassroots Challenge

Myron Buchholz decided enough is enough and launched his run in February.

So what does DPW Chair Laning do?

She tells this Democrat in good standing that the DPW's voters' list, (Voter Activation Network (VAN), will not be made available to Buchholz for his challenge to Rep. Kind, (Blogging Blue), (Cognitive Dissidence).

Laning's reasoning. She has no reasoning, saying she must control the VAN because if Democratic incumbents believe it will be sold to primary challengers the incumbents won't update the VAN and the voter information contained in the VAN will suffer.

Buchholz' and other Democratic Party volunteers are taking to Facebook and other social media saying if they believed incumbents had a proprietary hold on the information volunteers gather, they wouldn't have volunteered in the first place.

An email by supporters of Buchholz circulating reads:

The current DPW by-law language regarding VAN access is this:

The Wisconsin voter file which is administered by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin (DPW) will be made available to all the following individuals/groups in good standing with the DPW and legislative caucuses: all incumbent Democratic Party officeholders, Democratic nominees for public office, Democratic legislative campaign committees, and county, local unit, and Congressional District affiliates of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Voter file will be made available to non-partisan candidates who are in compliance with the membership requirements detailed in Article 1, Section 6(e), contingent upon the recommendation of their county party leadership. In the case of multi-jurisdiction or statewide races, such recommendations will be made by the State Chair, subject to review by the Executive Committee. Multiple recommendations for a specific office are allowed. All other requests made by individuals, candidates, groups, organizations, or political committees not specified above, must be approved by the State Chair, subject to review by the Executive Committee. All appeals for reversals or exceptions are subject to review by the Executive Committee of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. The Wisconsin voter file and other Democratic Party list access fees will be determined by the Executive Committee established fair market value, as required by state regulation. 

The DPW County Chairs Association is meeting this weekend in Stevens Point. The discussion on changing Laning's new protect-the-incumbents-against-grassroots citizens policy should begin in Point.

Sanders' Call for Political Revolution Answered, Wisc Rep. Ron Kind to Face Primary Challenge

Myron Buchholz and Family of Eau Claire, Wisconsin -
Retired Teacher Myron Buchholz Mounts
Primary Challenge Against U.S. Rep. Ron Kind,
Answers Bernie Sanders Call for a Political Revolution in
Wisconsin's Historically Independent Third Cong. District

Retired Teacher Myron Buchholz Mounts Primary Challenge Against U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, Answers Bernie Sanders' Call for a Political Revolution

Wisconsin's Third Congressional District Snaking Along Mississippi River (into Central Wisconsin) Known for Independence and Oasis of Progressive Politics

By Steve Carlson (Facebook)

Ron Kind (D-Wisconsin, Third Dist.) will have a primary challenger.

On Monday, Myron Buchholz announced that he is challenging Congressman Ron Kind in the August 9th, Democratic Party primary in Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District.

Buchholz is a retired high school history teacher and longtime peace activist from Eau Claire. He serves on the board of the Chippewa Valley Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and is a steering committee member of 15 Now Northwest Wisconsin, a community coalition that advocates for living wages.

"Bernie Sanders has called for a political revolution, for average Americans to step up and take our government back from the billionaire class. I’ve decided to answer that call," he said. Buchholz also said Wisconsinites need a representative who will fight for working people, instead of promoting trade deals that send American jobs out of the country and depress wages.

"In 2004, 29% of children in Wisconsin were eligible for free or subsidized school lunches," said Buchholz. "By 2014 that figure had risen to 43%. Poverty is spreading across Wisconsin and across the country. We need working class champions in Washington DC and that’s who I’ll be."

The Democratic Party congressional primary election will be held on Tuesday, August 9th, 2016.

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