October 25, 2022

Hello Tim,

Your local Mount Horeb Progressive Trolls would love to hear from you. They have canvasses from now until November 8. For those unable to canvass, they have other incorporated other tasks to help elect progressives. Why not give a call. 

Call Carol Larsen 608-437-3966, or 

Email: sunborn@mhtc.net

or

Jennifer Gottwald 608-437-1974

Email: davidjen@mhtc.net

Thanks To All Election Volunteers!

Dianne Hesselbein provides inspirational comments for last Saturday's Canvass. Joining Dianne canvassing were four Mount Horeb High School Students who know November's election will affect their futures. Thanks to all who volunteered a portion of their weekend to insure progressive victories in November. 

Mount Horeb In-Person Absentee Voting Information for the 

November 8, 2022 General Election

In-Person Absentee Voting will be conducted in the 2nd floor Conference Room of the Municipal Building, beginning on Tuesday, October 25th, ending Friday, November 4th, weekdays only, from 9am-3pm, or by appointment. Please contact Village Clerk Alyssa Gaffney at 608-437-9404 or alyssa.gaffney@mounthorebwi.info if you have any questions, or to make an appointment outside of the 9am-3pm time slots. 

For surrounding towns check with your Town Clerk for early voting times and days. As always, https://myvote.wi.gov/en-us/ is your one stop shop for voting information.

Don't Forget to bring your Photo ID**

Business Owners Take A Stand For Governor Tony Evers

Please vote for this guy in a couple weeks! As parents of two children, we trust Governor Evers when it comes to public education and ensuring all kids have opportunities to learn and grow. As tax payers, we're happy to see that Wisconsin ended the last fiscal year with a budget surplus, and we approve of Governor Evers' plan to cut taxes for the middle class to help us all in this time of inflation (vs his opponent's proposal of a flat tax that would dramatically cut taxes for the wealthy). As business owners, we feel like Governor Evers has our backs, and we were happy to see him support a small grants program that helped us when we were just starting and put us in a position to get a bigger business loan to launch Brix Cider. As human beings who see public goods such as clean air and clean water as essential to our future, we feel some sense of protection with a governor who won't sell rights down the river in a race to the bottom to please corporate interests. With COVID-19, Governor Evers saw us through the worst public health crisis in our lifetimes, and in this test of his leadership, he guided us with a steady hand, always listening to the best available scientific, medical, and public health information to guide his decisions, as opposed to his opponent who mostly criticizes the vaccines that have allowed us to get our lives back to normal. And as citizens in a democracy, we're frankly afraid of a future where the Republican Party takes absolute control of our state, as they have mostly already done by gerrymandering in control of the State Senate and Assembly. Governor Evers provides a check on a Republican Party that sometimes seems like it's lost its mind. We're proud to support Governor Tony Evers, and we hope to do too!  - Marie and Matt Raboin

(Photo from last year when Governor Evers visited us at Brix!)

FOR THE RECORD:

Sen.Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) downplayed the dangers of climate change at a Republican luncheon earlier this summer, according to a new report. “I don’t know about you guys, but I think climate change is - as Lord Monckton said - bullshit,” Johnson said, according to CNN’s KFILE, which reported the Republican did not utter the expletive but mouthed it instead. “By the way, it is,” Johnson then added, according to a report. 

Lord Christopher Monckton is a British conservative climate change denier and political pundit.) 

“What are we doing here? Well, we’re killing ourselves,” Johnson said at the event in early June, reportedly adding, “it’s a self-inflicted wound.”

The Republican reportedly separately blamed mainstream media outlets and Democrats for using the coronavirus pandemic and climate change as a means of creating a “state of fear” and “control.” 

“It was all about creating the state of fear as they tried to do with global warming. Oh, I’m sorry. It’s climate change now. Yeah. Whatever works,” Johnson said, according to CNN. “Whatever works that they can, you can set up a state of fear so they can step in and alleviate their fear.”

The consensus among scientists is that global temperatures are rising because of activity by humans. Climate change increasingly has been seen in connection to violent tropical storms, as well as the recent heat wave in the Pacific Northwest.

Progressive Democrats in Congress have been pushing for more funding to fight global warming as part of the ongoing debate about infrastructure spending, a measure Republicans in both chambers have voiced opposition to. 

“Mankind has actually flourished in warmer temperatures,” Johnson said in 2016. “I just think the question always is what is the cost versus the benefit of anything we do to try and clean up our environment.” 

“As a Tea Party Republican and climate change denier in 2010, he attracted support from the fossil fuel industry. Later, by minimizing the pandemic and touting questionable treatments for COVID, he vouched for a former president’s lies and boosted his own credibility with the Trump base in his home state,” The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote. “Johnson continues to put his own interests ahead of yours. He continues to put himself first and democracy second.”  

• Source- The Hill

HAD ENOUGH OF THE JOHNSON?

ELECT A CLIMATE CHAMPION, MANDELA BARNES

WE CAN DO THIS!

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