Democratic Party Of Wisconsin
2009 State Convention
Democratic Party of Wisconsin (DPW) members elected Party Officers at the 2009 State Convention in Green Bay June 13. Convention Delegates unanimously elected Mike Tate as the new DPW Chair to succeed Joe Wineke, who stepped down from his post after two highly successful terms. The newly elected DPW executive board includes:
Chair - Mike Tate
At 30, Tate is the nation’s youngest state chair in either party. Tate is a veteran Democratic Party activist with more than 12 years of experience working for numerous political organizations and campaigns.
1st Vice Chair - Melissa Schroeder
Schroeder, of Merrill, is a member of the Democratic National Committee and is a congressional aide to U.S. Rep. Dave Obey.
2nd Vice Chair - Jef Hall
Hall, of Oshkosh, is an IT consultant and leader on the Winnebago Co. Board of Supervisors
Treasurer - Michael Childers
Childers is a Madeline Island realtor and has served as a financial officer for many progressive candidates and organizations.
Secretary - Angela Sutkiewicz
Sutkiewicz is a Sheboygan attorney and longtime Party activist.
2009 State Convention
Democratic Party of Wisconsin (DPW) members elected Party Officers at the 2009 State Convention in Green Bay June 13. Convention Delegates unanimously elected Mike Tate as the new DPW Chair to succeed Joe Wineke, who stepped down from his post after two highly successful terms. The newly elected DPW executive board includes:
Chair - Mike Tate
At 30, Tate is the nation’s youngest state chair in either party. Tate is a veteran Democratic Party activist with more than 12 years of experience working for numerous political organizations and campaigns.
1st Vice Chair - Melissa Schroeder
Schroeder, of Merrill, is a member of the Democratic National Committee and is a congressional aide to U.S. Rep. Dave Obey.
2nd Vice Chair - Jef Hall
Hall, of Oshkosh, is an IT consultant and leader on the Winnebago Co. Board of Supervisors
Treasurer - Michael Childers
Childers is a Madeline Island realtor and has served as a financial officer for many progressive candidates and organizations.
Secretary - Angela Sutkiewicz
Sutkiewicz is a Sheboygan attorney and longtime Party activist.
Scott Walker Shipping Wisconsin Business to Duluth
Walker’s Motorcycle Entourage to Bed at Duluth Hotel, Five Minutes from Superior, WI
MADISON – Republican gubernatorial wannabe Scott Walker and his motorcycle entourage will splurge on expensive out-of-state hotel rooms in Duluth, MN following his June 22, 2009 campaign tour -- rather than supporting a Superior, WI hotel located just five minutes away.
Walker and his entourage occupied 25 rooms at the Hampton Inn in Duluth, June 22, at $157 per-night, representing a total gift of $3,925 from Walker to the state of Minnesota.
“Despite his campaign rhetoric, Wisconsin businesses clearly aren’t good enough for Scott Walker,” said Mike Tate, Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. “When it comes to supporting Wisconsin businesses and jobs, Scott Walker talks the talk, but he doesn’t walk the walk.
A call to the Hampton Inn confirmed that all 25 rooms in Walker’s block have already been reserved, meaning that Walker’s entourage will fork over a total of $3,925 to the state of Minnesota. Walker is illegally using a combination of taxpayer dollars and corporate contributions to fund the campaign tour.
In the event that Walker chooses to reconsider his hotel choice, the DPW has taken the liberty of mapping out a route to a nearby Wisconsin hotel. Rooms at the Best Western in Superior, located just five minutes from where Walker will stay, run for just $89 per-night. See the directions to the Best Western: “At a time when Wisconsin businesses are in need of support, Scott Walker is splurging on out-of-state hotel rooms and showering Minnesota businesses with thousands of Wisconsin dollars,” said Tate.
For more than 200 years, the Democratic Party has represented the interests of working families, fighting for equal opportunities and justice for all Americans.
Today, Democrats continue that fight with a firm commitment to the values that we all share as Americans: secure the nation, end the war in Iraq responsibly, and restore our moral standing in the world; free ourselves from the tyranny of oil once and for all; restore the Constitution and protect the civil rights and liberties of all Americans.
Walker’s Motorcycle Entourage to Bed at Duluth Hotel, Five Minutes from Superior, WI
MADISON – Republican gubernatorial wannabe Scott Walker and his motorcycle entourage will splurge on expensive out-of-state hotel rooms in Duluth, MN following his June 22, 2009 campaign tour -- rather than supporting a Superior, WI hotel located just five minutes away.
Walker and his entourage occupied 25 rooms at the Hampton Inn in Duluth, June 22, at $157 per-night, representing a total gift of $3,925 from Walker to the state of Minnesota.
“Despite his campaign rhetoric, Wisconsin businesses clearly aren’t good enough for Scott Walker,” said Mike Tate, Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. “When it comes to supporting Wisconsin businesses and jobs, Scott Walker talks the talk, but he doesn’t walk the walk.
A call to the Hampton Inn confirmed that all 25 rooms in Walker’s block have already been reserved, meaning that Walker’s entourage will fork over a total of $3,925 to the state of Minnesota. Walker is illegally using a combination of taxpayer dollars and corporate contributions to fund the campaign tour.
In the event that Walker chooses to reconsider his hotel choice, the DPW has taken the liberty of mapping out a route to a nearby Wisconsin hotel. Rooms at the Best Western in Superior, located just five minutes from where Walker will stay, run for just $89 per-night. See the directions to the Best Western: “At a time when Wisconsin businesses are in need of support, Scott Walker is splurging on out-of-state hotel rooms and showering Minnesota businesses with thousands of Wisconsin dollars,” said Tate.
For more than 200 years, the Democratic Party has represented the interests of working families, fighting for equal opportunities and justice for all Americans.
Today, Democrats continue that fight with a firm commitment to the values that we all share as Americans: secure the nation, end the war in Iraq responsibly, and restore our moral standing in the world; free ourselves from the tyranny of oil once and for all; restore the Constitution and protect the civil rights and liberties of all Americans.
Healthcare for All
The American people understand that good health is the foundation of individual achievement and economic prosperity. Ensuring quality, affordable health care for every single American is essential to children's education, workers' productivity and businesses' competitiveness. We believe that covering all is not just a moral imperative, but is necessary to making our health system workable and affordable. Doing so would end cost-shifting from the uninsured, promote prevention and wellness, stop insurance discrimination, help eliminate health care disparities, and achieve savings through competition, choice, innovation, and higher quality care.
The American people understand that good health is the foundation of individual achievement and economic prosperity. Ensuring quality, affordable health care for every single American is essential to children's education, workers' productivity and businesses' competitiveness. We believe that covering all is not just a moral imperative, but is necessary to making our health system workable and affordable. Doing so would end cost-shifting from the uninsured, promote prevention and wellness, stop insurance discrimination, help eliminate health care disparities, and achieve savings through competition, choice, innovation, and higher quality care.
Health care reform must also provide adequate incentives for innovation to ensure that Americans have access to evidence-based and cost-effective health care. Research should be based on science, not ideology. For the millions of Americans and their families suffering from debilitating physical and emotional effects of disease, time is a precious commodity, and it is running out.
Economic Stewardship
In this time of economic transformation and crisis, we must be stewards of this economy more than ever before. We will maintain fiscal responsibility, so that we do not mortgage our children's future on a mountain of debt. We can do this at the same time that we invest in our future. We will restore fairness and responsibility to our tax code. We will bring balance back to the housing markets, so that people do not have to lose their homes. And we will encourage personal savings, so that our economy remains strong and Americans can live well in their
retirements.
We must reform our tax code. It's thousands of pages long, a monstrosity that high-priced lobbyists have rigged with page after page of special interest loopholes and tax shelters. We will shut down the corporate loopholes and tax havens and use the money so that we can provide an immediate middle-class tax cut that will offer relief to workers and their families. We'll eliminate federal income taxes for millions of retirees, because all seniors deserve to live out their lives with dignity and respect. We will not increase taxes on any family earning under $250,000 and we will offer additional tax cuts for middle-class families.
We will ensure that the foreclosure prevention program enacted by Congress is implemented quickly and effectively so that at-risk homeowners can get help and hopefully stay in their homes. We will work to reform bankruptcy laws to restore balance between lender and homeowner rights. Because we have an obligation to prevent this crisis from recurring in the future, we will crack down on fraudulent brokers and lenders and invest in financial literacy. We will pass a Homebuyers Bill of Rights, which will include establishing new lending standards to ensure that loans are affordable and fair, provide adequate remedies to make sure the standards are met, and ensure that homeowners have accurate and complete information about their mortgage options. We will support affordable rental housing, which is now more critical than ever.
All material is from the Democratic Party of Wisconsin Web Page
In this time of economic transformation and crisis, we must be stewards of this economy more than ever before. We will maintain fiscal responsibility, so that we do not mortgage our children's future on a mountain of debt. We can do this at the same time that we invest in our future. We will restore fairness and responsibility to our tax code. We will bring balance back to the housing markets, so that people do not have to lose their homes. And we will encourage personal savings, so that our economy remains strong and Americans can live well in their
retirements.
We must reform our tax code. It's thousands of pages long, a monstrosity that high-priced lobbyists have rigged with page after page of special interest loopholes and tax shelters. We will shut down the corporate loopholes and tax havens and use the money so that we can provide an immediate middle-class tax cut that will offer relief to workers and their families. We'll eliminate federal income taxes for millions of retirees, because all seniors deserve to live out their lives with dignity and respect. We will not increase taxes on any family earning under $250,000 and we will offer additional tax cuts for middle-class families.
We will ensure that the foreclosure prevention program enacted by Congress is implemented quickly and effectively so that at-risk homeowners can get help and hopefully stay in their homes. We will work to reform bankruptcy laws to restore balance between lender and homeowner rights. Because we have an obligation to prevent this crisis from recurring in the future, we will crack down on fraudulent brokers and lenders and invest in financial literacy. We will pass a Homebuyers Bill of Rights, which will include establishing new lending standards to ensure that loans are affordable and fair, provide adequate remedies to make sure the standards are met, and ensure that homeowners have accurate and complete information about their mortgage options. We will support affordable rental housing, which is now more critical than ever.
All material is from the Democratic Party of Wisconsin Web Page
