One Wisconsin Now

One Wisconsin Now launched Project '09, an interactive website that will help build the progressive agenda for a better Wisconsin, at the 2008 Wisconsin Democratic Convention in Stevens Point today.

We need an agenda that serves and protects the people of Wisconsin and the progressive ideals we hold dear, and no one is more capable and qualified of crafting that agenda than the people themselves. Progressives must be heard and 'Project '09' is our way to ensure our leaders listen.

Project ’09 will let the Bush administration and its rubber stamps, including Senator John McCain and his ideological allies, know that in Wisconsin we want something done now to reverse their failing policies.

It is not enough to rail about the mayhem of George Bush's failed agenda that’s done nothing to move our country and Wisconsin forward. Progressives have a chance to chart a new course for this state and this nation. Log on to Project ’09 today, and tell us what issues should be front and center in the coming year. It’s time for Madison and Washington hear from you!

One Wisconsin Now will be putting on an encore performance of its popular Bush-McCain Stamporee! It will take place outside the town hall meeting that John McCain has scheduled this afternoon at the Martin Luther High School in Greendale.

The event will demonstrate how when it comes to the failing policies of George W. Bush, Senator John McCain is actually McSame – a literal rubber stamp in his votes in the U.S. Senate. During the event, an actor portraying Senator McCain will use a gigantic rubber stamp to give his personal seal of approval for Bush’s problematic stances on all of the major issues of the day. An actor portraying Bush will look on as McCain rubber stamps his failed policies.

The Stamporee will take place today, Thursday, May 29. It will run continuously outside Martin Luther High School (5201 South 76th Street, Greendale) from 3:30 – 4:30p.m.

During the month of May Labor 2008 will kick off its biggest mobilization effort. Union activists all around this country will be talking to union households about Sen. McCain’s anti-worker record. In Wisconsin people will be busy recruiting for member-to-member walks and phone banks. The walks begin Saturday May 10th in Milwaukee and May 17th in Wausau, Green Bay, Kenosha, Madison, Eau Claire and La Crosse.

Much of the effort will focus on John McCain’s healthcare plan and how it leaves Working Families on Their Own. Soaring health care costs are forcing wages down for people lucky enough to have insurance. Another 47 million are uninsured. Although John McCain says he intends to combat rising costs, his proposals protect insurance company profits at the expense of working families.