“ME Energies” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast
We discuss the razor tight Wisconsin election, and ask listeners to challenge themselves to do at least one phone or door shift by November 8th. See our list of GOTV opportunities this weekend (below). We dig into new polling showing combining climate change and the rising cost of living is a great electoral argument. Why are the Democrats not talking about renewable energy and energy efficiency as solutions to inflation? We welcome Antonio Butts, the Executive Director of Walnut Way, for an interview on the new ME Energies coalition against We Energies’ massive rate hike request, and his organization’s intervention in the rate case now pending before the Public Service Commission (PSC). We close the show with our in-house economist Dr. Michael Rosen to review newly released Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau data showing Tim Michels’ flat tax only benefits the richest 3% of Wisconsin residents, while actually raising taxes on everyone else.
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Show Links:
- Walnut Way website
- Poll: Focus on Cost of Living Imperative in Midterm’s Final Days.
- The Crises That Overturned Our Politics.
- We Energies’ revised electric rate proposal shifts more costs to residential customers, while cutting industrial rate hike.
- Economists say Tim Michels’ flat tax idea would only benefit the rich.
