Trump’s unmet promises

Candidate Trump made many promises in 2016, mostly unmet. His tax cuts largely helped big business and the wealthy, not regular folks. And, the Trump alternative to the Affordable Care Act was to repeal, with no replacement. Trump also pledged massive infrastructure spending. Empty words, despite much of the nation and Wisconsin in disrepair. The American Society of Civil Engineers’…

Citizen Action Weekly: Friday, February 22nd

Friday, February 22nd Citizen Action Northeast Wisconsin Co-op Member Eric Genrich Wins Green Bay Mayor Primary Congratulations to Eric Genrich for his primary victory this Tuesday in the Green Bay mayor’s race with 44% percent of the vote. Eric is a former state legislator and a founding member of the Citizen Action Northeast WI Co-op.

Citizen Action Weekly: Friday, February 15th

Friday, February 15th Northeast Co-op Asks Senator Feyen to Support BadgerCare Expansion State Senator Feyen held a town hall on Monday Feb 11 in Fond du Lac County, which the Northeast organizer, Jolie Lizotte, and a couple constituents from Oshkosh attended to ask the Senator to support expanding BadgerCare in the state budget. The Senator is not staunchly opposed to…

Citizen Action Weekly: Friday, February 1st

Friday, February 1st “The Foxconn is up: They got paid, we got played” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast We welcome State Representative Jonathan Brostoff to discuss the predictable implosion of Foxconn’s manufacturing plant in Wisconsin and the implications for Wisconsin and the progressive movement. We also talk about new scandalous and hateful revelations about the bigotry of Scott Walker’s handpicked Supreme Court…

Citizen Action Weekly: Friday, January 25th

Friday, January 25th Citizen Action Applauds Governor Evers for Commitment to Expand BadgerCare Is great first step towards fulfilling public mandate to guarantee affordable health care in Wisconsin In response to the first State of the State Address of Tony Evers, Citizen Action of Wisconsin members across the state applaud the Governor’s firm commitment to including BadgerCare expansion in the…

Citizen Action Weekly: Friday, January 18th

Friday, January 18th Citizen Action and One Wisconsin Now win the first lame duck case, blocking GOP early voting restrictions Citizen Action is again making headlines across the state. Thursday Citizen Action and our partners, including One Wisconsin Now, won an injunction from a federal judge blocking the early voting restrictions put in place by the Lame Duck Legislature and…

The partial government shutdown

The partial government shutdown, initiated by Trump (beholden to hard-right bomb throwers Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh), is the longest in U.S. history. It would not have happened if departing weak-kneed House Speaker Paul Ryan had not enabled Trump. Now, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has become Trump’s go-to politician, despite his previous opposition to a shutdown. 800,000 federal workers,…

Citizen Action Weekly: Friday, January 11th

Friday, January 11th Citizen Action of Wisconsin statewide staff meets for strategic retreat this week in Milwaukee. This week Citizen Action of Wisconsin organizing staff meet in Milwaukee for a strategic retreat. In 3 days of intensive (and exhausting) work we made progress in planning our 2019 issue and electoral campaigns, evolving our organizational culture, improving our effectiveness as a…

Cirtizen Action Weekly: January 4, 2019

Friday, January 4, 2019 Welcome Noah Reif, Citizen Action’s new Northwestern Wisconsin Co-op Organizer Noah joins the Citizen Action team after spending the 2018 midterms with For our Future-Wisconsin. They grew up in Beechwood, Wisconsin before attending St. Norbert College and graduating with a Bachelors of Music- Liberal Arts. In 2016, Noah ran for State Assembly District 88 against John…