The statewide day of budget action is TODAY.
Dear All,
Today is the day!
All across the state, administrators, educators, parents, and advocates are participating in the nonpartisan Statewide Day of Action to demand a fair state budget for our kids and public schools. Please check out the Day of Action Toolkit to see a list of local events and action opportunities, and make a plan to join the efforts in your community. Keep an eye on our social media — particularly our Facebook page — to stay on top of the day!
DIGITAL ACTIONS
- New letter to lawmakers: We urge every single supporter of strong public schools to send an email to your state legislators today AND to share with your friends. Here’s a new link to find your lawmakers and generate a customizable email that goes straight to them.
- Tweetstorm: 5-6pm: Whether or not you’re able to participate in an in-person event today, anyone with a Twitter account should please join us in Tweeting at your state lawmakers from 5-6pm. We’ve made it easy: follow this link to find your lawmakers and generate a customizable Tweet about the budget that will tag them. Set an alarm for sometime in the 5pm to 6pm range today so you remember to Tweet at that time! We will have reminders and links on social media!
- Day of Action Toolkit: This toolkit contains notes about the Day of Action AND links to these important digital actions. It also contains QR codes you can print out for people to take these digital actions live at your events throughout the day.
We now know that the Assembly will go to the floor to vote on June 28 and the Senate will go to the floor on June 30. This means Wisconsinites have ONE WEEK to take action and call on their reps. Today is a perfect time for the Day of Action — now is our time to speak up before it’s too late!
Wisconsin has spoken — now let’s make sure we’re heard. Please join us for today’s Statewide Day of Action, take these digital actions, and stand up for public schools!
–Christian and Team Public
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The Coalition for a Just Wisconsin Budget encourages you to support the
Rally for Fair Maps!
Mon.
May 17th
At Noon!
So that we can attend and support this important rally, we have decided to postpone our meeting that had been scheduled for this same Monday to one week later:
Join the next Coalition for a Just WI Budget meeting – May 24th at 1:00 PM.
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Please Sign On to Our Call for a Just Wisconsin Budget
Join the
Coalition for a Just Wisconsin Budget
and Partners
for the
Just Budget Unity Tour
May 7th and 8th!
(View Tour Schedule Here)
This Tour to all districts of the members of the WI Joint Finance Committee members has three powerful components:
- The Unity Tour led by the UnityMobile – A two-day vehicle caravan that will make 12 stops in 12 Wisconsin communities and hold 12 events where Wisconsinites will speak publicly for our essential need to fund justice in our state budget.
- The Four Outlying Tour Legs – In four cities within 4 different JFC districts (Chippewa Falls, Rhinelander, River Falls, and Sheboygan) people will be leading “Tour Stop Events” without the accompaniment of the “UnityMobile.” These four events, have made it possible for us to have a physical presence in all 16 of the JFC districts during the days of May 7th and 8th. As special thanks to the leaders in these communities who have taken the lead on making these events possible.
- The Virtual Tour – Whether or not you can join us for one or more of our 16 in person tour stops, you can join us virtually by following the tour on the Building Unity Facebook page. We will be streaming tour stop events throughout the two days. You can also play a very important role in our tour by calling and/or writing to the members of the Joint Finance Committee – their contact information is listed below. Tell them about the justice measures that you want to see in the budget.
You can view talking points about some of the aspects of Governor’s Proposed Budget that should stay in the budget, here. This is certainly not a complete list of all justice issues or talking points and we will be happy to update it with more as they come in. Your suggestions for talking points can be sent to BuildingUnityWi@gmail.com.
Please consider sharing your letters or written testimonies to marykbaum@gmail.com. In partnership with the Wisconsin Video Hub and Building Unity, the Just Budget Video Project is turning letters, testimonials, and songs into inspiring videos that we are sharing with our neighbors and friends. Perhaps your testimony will make it into one of the videos. You can find a collection of the videos that they have made so far, here.
Join us after Day 1 of the tour, for a
First Friday Film Night – The People Call for a Just Budget
We will watch videos made from various calls for justice by the Just Budget Video Project as well as some footage from our first day of the Just Budget Unity Tour.
This will be a virtual event via Zoom. Register to get the film link at:
https://forms.gle/mn4HR8oLhZDm76Rc6.
Please share this event on Facebook.
Call and write to the members of the JFC and also to your legislators.
You can find your Legislator and their contact information here: https://legis.wisconsin.gov
Dist | Party | First Name | Last Name | Office Address | Email Address | ||||
JFC Senators
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5 | R | Dale | Kooyenga | Room 310 South | State Capitol | Box 7882 | Madison, WI 53707 | Sen.Kooyenga@legis.wisconsin.gov | (608) 266-2512 |
6 | D | LaTonya | Johnson | Room 19 South | State Capitol | Box 7882 | Madison, WI 53707 | Sen.Johnson@legis.wisconsin.gov | (608) 266-2500 |
12 | R | Mary | Felzkowski | Room 316 South | State Capitol | Box 7882 | Madison, WI 53707 | Sen.Tiffany@legis.wisconsin.gov | (608) 266-2509 |
14 | R | Joan | Ballweg | Room 122 South | State Capitol | Box 7882 | Madison, WI 53707 | Sen.Olsen@legis.wisconsin.gov | (608) 266-0751 |
17 | R | Howard | Marklein | Room 8 South | State Capitol | Box 7882 | Madison, WI 53707 | Sen.Marklein@legis.wi.gov | (608) 266-0703 |
20 | R | Duey | Stroebel | Room 18 South | State Capitol | Box 7882 | Madison, WI 53707 | Sen.Stroebel@legis.wisconsin.gov | (608) 266-7513 |
23 | R | Kathleen | Bernier | Room 319 South | State Capitol | Box 7882 | Madison, WI 53707 | Sen.Bernier@legis.wisconsin.gov | (608) 266-7511 |
27 | D | Jon | Erpenbach | Room 415 South | State Capitol | Box 7882 | Madison, WI 53707 | Sen.Erpenbach@legis.wisconsin.gov | (608) 266-6670 |
JFC Assembly Representatives
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18 | D | Evan | Goyke | Room 111 North | State Capitol | Box 8952 | Madison, WI 53708 | Rep.Goyke@legis.wisconsin.gov | (608) 266-0645 |
21 | R | Jessie | Rodriguez | Room 204 North | State Capitol | Box 8952 | Madison, WI 53708 | Rep.Rodriguez@legis.wisconsin.gov | (608) 266-0610 |
26 | R | Terry | Katsma | Room 306 East | State Capitol | Box 8952 | Madison, WI 53708 | Rep.Katsma@legis.wisconsin.gov | (608) 266-0656 |
30 | R | Shanon | Zimmerman | Room 324 East | State Capitol | Box 8952 | Madison, WI 53708 | Rep.Zimmerman@legis.wisconsin.gov | (608) 266-1526 |
31 | R | Amy | Loudenbeck | Room 304 East | State Capitol | Box 8952 | Madison, WI 53708 | Rep.Loudenbeck@legis.wisconsin.gov | (608) 266-9967 |
39 | R | Mark | Born | Room 324 East | State Capitol | Box 8952 | Madison, WI 53708 | Rep.Born@legis.wisconsin.gov | (608) 266-2540 |
50 | R | Tony | Kurtz | Room 418 North | State Capitol | Box 8952 | Madison, WI 53708 | Rep.Kurtz@legis.wisconsin.gov | (608) 266-8531 |
66 | D | Greta | Neubauer | Room 8 North | State Capitol | Box 8952 | Madison, WI 53708 | Rep.Neubauer@legis.wisconsin.govs | (608) 266-0634 |
Comments may also be submitted via email: Budget.Comments@legis.wisconsin.gov
Budget Comments will be accepted by the Joint Finance Committee until Noon on April 30th.
3/29/21
The Coalition for a Just Wisconsin Budget met today. If you would like to see a recording of most of that meeting, click HERE.
During today’s budget coalition meeting Dan Folkman shared our new video that was created from Mike McCabe’s op-ed piece below:
“Take the Money and Expand BadgerCare.” You can also see by clicking HERE.
3/19/21 – Check out Coalition Leader, Mike McCabe’s piece that just came out in the GazetteXtra out of Janesville.
McCabe: Brainless Politics Blocks BadgerCare Expansion
(click on the link below)
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