From my email inbox comes this heartfelt appeal for funding from Joanne Staudacher, running as a Democrat for the 53rd State Assembly district.
As you may have heard, I’m running to represent the 53rd District in the Wisconsin State Assembly. I am facing a primary on August 14 and will need to get the word out to potential voters to reach them with my message if I want the chance to represent the 53rd in the November election.
To get the message out, I can purchase 5,000 door cards for around $400. Every $2 you invest in my campaign will buy 25 door cards and the voter contact that comes with them. I also need database access to help maximize my contact hours, since my current condition and the rural nature of my district means that I can’t walk as quickly as when I knocked my 3,000 doors for State Senator Jessica King last summer. When I am able to reach people, I receive excellent feedback and quite a bit of support from the people to whom I talk.
Now more than ever, we need people who are willing to work for a brighter future for Wisconsin. We need to attract jobs that pay a living wage and do not destroy our environment, as well as reexamine tax cuts for wealthy corporations that cut jobs only to increase their own profit margins. We also need to invest in education and the protection of our most vulnerable members of our communities. Above all, we must return to good, clean, open government. While we might not always agree on issues, we must learn how to sit down, talk, listen, and at least understand each other again if we want to be able to build a state community that will be able to move forward for the benefit of all. I promise to work toward that cooperative future that will be vital to our state’s future while I continue to advocate for those who most need it.
If you are able to help out in any way, no investment is too small. Bonus points if you can contribute before midnight tonight, which is my next reporting deadline. Even if you can’t donate, other kinds of support are needed, including volunteers, general moral support, and spreading the word about my campaign by sharing links to my Facebook page and/or my ActBlue account. I also need people to march with me in parades on July 4th in Oshkosh and Omro and on July 15th in Eldorado for their Hog Wrestle. If you have any questions, either about helping with my campaign or about my stance on specific issues, please let me know either here, at Staudacher53WI@gmail.com, or at (920) 215-0053. Thanks for your past support, and for any that you are able to offer me now. Together, we can make Wisconsin’s future brighter.
Forward!
Joanne Staudacher
Candidate for Representative to the State Assembly, District 53
Though I’ve never met Joanne, I know she’s been a passionate activist and advocate on behalf of progressive ideals, and I’m confident she’d be a great addition to the State Assembly.
If you’d like to make a financial donation to Joanne Staudacher’s campaign for the State Assembly, you can visit her ActBlue fundraising page, and you can learn more about Joanne’s campaign on her Facebook page.
I highly recommend donating to this candidate! She is literally “the image” of what the Wisconsin Protester is with her image appearing in TIME Magazine! Furthermore, she is (likely) running against Kurt Schuller our current State Treasury Secretary!
My write-up is here: http://wisoapbox.blogspot.com/2012/06/know-your-candidate-joanne-e-staudacher.html but I would recommend going to her “Act Blue” page first 😉
Yeah this gal is the real deal! Heading over to Act Blue right now . . . .
Why not feature a candidate that can actually win? She has no policies or relevant experience on her Facebook page and no website or any other outlet with an agenda. How is she going to win over the independent voters in her district when seemingly her only political experience is being a ‘Recall Warrior’ when nearly every part of her district went overwhelmingly for Walker?
I’m featuring a candidate that actually reached out to me, as opposed to a candidate that didn’t. I like Joanne, and I’m not sure why political experience is a prerequisite for running for office.
That’s great that she reached out to you, I’m just asking about the merits of a candidate with no hope. You have a large audience here and whatever money was raised from this could have been raised to help candidates with a real chance of flipping a seat or who need funds to stave off a well funded Republican. Of course you can do what you want, I just wanted to know the reasoning, so thank you.
As to political experience, it’s not a prerequisite, but I brought it up with the context that what she’s riding on is something her district overwhelmingly rejected.
Anders, then who’s the candidate who can win in that race? Which Democrat (in your view) is best suited to winning that race?
I don’t personally believe any of the Democrats can win. But the Democrat best suited is probably Koby Schellinger. He’s the only one with a website, has the strongest Wisconsin Eye interview, definitely has the best idea of how to run a campaign as he’s the only one I’ve seen in FDL or Oshkosh paper and has been present throughout the district. But again, I don’t think any Democrat will win the 53rd. I appreciate your willingness to engage your readers.
I agree that the district is “challenging” for the Democratic candidates, but I’m not sure that Schellinger being the only candidate with a campaign website means he’s best suited to be the Democratic nominee. In my experience, websites don’t win elections – shoe leather and hard work do.
I don’t disagree at all about a website winning elections. But it goes to the notion that a campaign with organization, staff/volunteers and shoe leather is better suited to mount a reasonable challenge to a Republican stronghold. I believe Schellinger has that. I know he has volunteers (they were crawling throughout my neighborhood Saturday), his website is, in my opinion, a model for candidates to follow because he actually lays out a platform and the fact is, Staudacher is unable to keep shoe leather pace with Schellinger because when she came to my house looking for nomination signatures she was already struggling to get around because of her pregnancy. And that’s only in the context of her ability to match shoe leather.
Do you think she’s the best candidate to take on one of the Republicans?
Realized it is Koby Schellenger, not Schellinger. Oops. The 53rd has a lot of rough names…Staudacher, Schellenger, Schuller, Schraa
Trust me…I know all about rough last names.
“Progress” is what Marx called his newspaper in 1847.
“Progressive” label what’s old is what’s new again.
Silly marxists. In the 20th century, Marxist governments killed over 150 million citizens inside your own countries where you control the government. Killing people for their own good? Because they dared disagree with your enlightened mythology.
Your progressive legacy of murdering and starving enslaved populations doesn’t slow you down, does it?
I’ve never murdered or starved anyone, nor am I a marxist. Here’s a question: would you consider Bob La Follette a marxist?
Support the marxists “progressive ideals”, but claim your hands are clean.
Progressives always kill their own populations, and starve them; Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mugabe, Mengistu, Castro= Progressive heroes. In their own languages, every one of those regimes referred to themselves as progressives and had publications called progress.
“Denial is a river in Egypt.”
I’m still waiting for an answer to my very simple question.
Do you consider Bob La Follette a marxist?
Don’t bother trying to post any other comments until you answer my question directly.
“would you consider Bob La Follette a marxist?
-ZW
Absolutely. Big time Progressive with Woodrow Wilson, whose policies wiped out capitalism and brought on the great depression after the system burned through other people’s money and ran out. Bob was known for his Marxist dialectic of class warfare and stealing from anyone who was capable (or do you call it ‘redistribution’ through other means).
Is Mao also a hero of yours, or is he just a fellow traveler?
This response tells me just how far outside of reality you’re based.
As for Mao, I didn’t know the man, nor do I have any affection for him or his policies.
I have a hard time finding anything about this candidate, but I have talked to another Democrat Koby Schellenger, who has come through my neighborhood and spent the time to talk with me about his campaign. Mr. Schellenger has a lot of very good ideas published on his website votekoby.com and I look forward to seeing how this election turns out. I read that there is going to be a forum for the 53rd Assembly Candidates 7-8:30 Monday July 7th at http://www.oshkoshcommunitymedia.org.