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Half Way to our Goal
With only a week and a day until the big vote, job duties are shifting around here at the office. Almost all staffers are moving to help with the get out the vote effort. So I've been busy doing a lot...
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If Election Day Were a Wedding, Wouldn't You Take Off Work?
Despite the extra-long hours of these final weeks and days of the campaign, I’ve been able (more truthfully, I’ve been forcing myself) to read a few pages of a novel each night before I go to bed.The...
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Wisconsin Amendment "Faces Considerable Opposition"
BPNews is a national, socially conservative Christian news service. They have been running a series of articles on amendment fights around the country.Yesterday, they featured Wisconsin:If a...
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Green Bay Only Takes "No" for an Answer
Editorial boards at papers across the state are starting to weigh in on the civil unions and marriage ban. Tomorrow we'll give a full rundown on what papers are saying-- but the large majority are...
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Front Group Gives $385K to Amendment Backers
Amendment backers have received $385,000 from the Coalition for America's Families, a group that has run several "issue" ads against Democratic candidates, including Gov. Jim Doyle. The group is headed...
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GOTV Update
We're steadily making our way to our goal number of volunteers for the four-day get out the vote operation.For the most part, the Saturday, Sunday, and Monday shifts are filled around the state.What's...
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Pro-Amendment Candidate Loses Treasurer Over Hit Piece
UPDATE: I was finally able to post the images. Also, a reader pointed out this additional article from The Northwestern about Robin Makar and Julie Pung Leschke.The Oshkosh Northwestern is reporting...
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Ed Boards Overwhelmingly Oppose the Ban
At least 12 of Wisconsin's daily newspapers have written editorials urging their readers to vote no. Here's the rundown so far, with links to the editorials: Appleton Post-Crescent, Uncertainty should...
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"They Wouldn't Want Her to Marry Meth-Head Eddie Either"
Yesterday I found one of my all-time favorite editorials about this issue. The Chetek Alert, up in Barron County, took a position against the amendment. Whoever wrote it has some great lines and really...
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Vote "No" Quilt
Yesterday evening, Amanda and Jenna -- the same girls from Alverno College who brought us the Magic Bullet -- came in with something else: a "vote no" quilt.They spent the day tabling in their student...
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Radio Ad Featuring Former GOP Congressman
Former Republican Congressman Steve Gunderson recorded this 60-second radio ad voicing his opposition to the ban.We currently don't have the money to air it, but if we can raise the cash (hint, hint)...
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The Latest from Inside the Madison Office
It feels a little delirious around here because we've been working from about 7:30am to at least 10pm many nights in a row. But we're still having fun. It's amazing how many people come through in a...
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Tell Your Friends
Hopefully all of you are having conversations and writing letters to your friends and family about what's on this November's ballot. Telling people why you personally care about defeating the ban is...
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A House Divided
State Representative Steve Freese was one of the sponsors of the civil unions and marriage ban. Over the last two years, I traveled to his office twice, and met with him in his district to urge him to...
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It's GOTV Time!!!
Hey Everybody,The blog may be a little quiet this weekend because we have all hands on deck out on the streets. I'm in Madison today and just drove around to all of our different staging sites to check...
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A great day for a walk ...
It's 11am on Sunday, and in a few hours, my friend Sandee and I will return to the streets to continue our GOTV canvass. Yesterday, between us we went to roughly 250 homes.We had a ball. Sandee and I...
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In 36 Hours
Every year, just before my birthday, I get what I call “the birthday blues.” I find myself in a bit of a funk— never particularly sad or upset— but it’s a time I like to withdraw and ruminate about the...
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A Slice of the GOTV Scene
This weekend thousands of you joined our GOTV push and knocked on well over 60,000 doors. Today and tomorrow, we have even more people signed up. Here are some scenes from the activities in...
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Justin's Grandpa is Voting No
Remember back in April, when Justin sat down with his grandpa to talk about the civil unions and marriage ban? At the time, his grandpa said he'd be voting for it:I know you’ve been wrestling with your...
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It's E-Day!
It's time. If you've already voted, most likely you're helping us get the rest of the "No" voters to the polls. Thank you.If you haven't voted, most polls are open from 7am - 8pm. If you have questions...
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Election Night Remarks
We wanted to share something as soon as possible about tonight's results. Here's a rough draft (typos included) of the speech Mike gave tonight.------My friends, tonight we came up short in our...
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Two Days Later...
I know many of you are wondering what's next and want to understand better what has taken place, so I wanted to offer at least a brief update.I personally am just beginning to reflect on what happened...
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Another Amendment?
Just days after Wisconsin voters approved a constitutional ban on same-sex marriages, state Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, is drafting a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would ban...
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My Final Thoughts
Now that Nov. 7 has passed, so too has Fair Wisconsin, at least as the official political campaign. This Wednesday is the last day of paid work for most of the Fair Wisconsin staff.A couple of people...
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