DEMOCRATIC PARTY
OF POLK COUNTY WISCONSIN
PATRIOTIC, PROGRESSIVE, & PROUD!
The Polk County Democratic Party is an inclusive, membership-based organization promoting Democratic and progressive principles. We recruit, support and elect candidates who share those principles. We act as a resource to educate all citizens on the important issues of the day.
HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT THE WORK OF POLK COUNTY DEMOCRATS
Weekly news from the DPW chair.
Dear fellow Democrats, This week, Robin Vos owned up to his goal for 2020: a GOP supermajority in the state legislature. If Vos and Fitzgerald win supermajorities in the state legislature, Republicans will be not only be able to pass any laws they want—they’ll be able...
Weekly news from the DPW chair.
Dear fellow Wisconsin Democrats, This week, our nation has been reeling from last weekend’s back to back mass murders—and from the revelations that followed about the white supremacist motive behind the shooting in El Paso and the role of President Trump’s and Fox...
Weekly news from the DPW chair.
Dear Fellow Democrats, This week, Vice Chair Felesia Martin and I—and several other party leaders—traveled to Detroit for the Democratic primary debates. On stage, we saw 20 Democrats, any of whom would bring a sea-change improvement from the tsunami of disaster...
UPCOMING MEETINGS AND EVENTS
Come ride on our flatbed or walk with a sign! Contact Cindy Glocke at cindy.glocke@yahoo.com to sign up. Parade starts at 1:00; line up at 12:30.
Come share a meal with like-minded folks at 5:30. Regular meeting at 6:30, after which we will stay to watch the third Democratic debate. Yes, the meeting room at the Amery Pizzeria now has a big-screen TV!
Come ride on our flatbed or walk with a sign! Contact Cindy Glocke at cindy.glocke@yahoo.com to sign up. Parade starts at 10:30; line up at 10:00.
Please note the venue for this meeting: the Amery Senior Center. We will have a short membership meeting at 6:00 (note: no meal this month, eat before you come), followed by a presentation by Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Thank you, Sen. Patty Schachtner, for convincing Ben to come to Polk County!
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One of the people representing WI on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is an Eau Claire City Councilman who grew up in Polk County on the Community Homestead Farm. You can trust he and others are working to make the DNC reflective of the beliefs of average Democratic Party members, young people, and others.I'm happy to be in San Francisco at the Democratic National Committee meeting fighting to make sure the Climate Crisis is front and center in the 2020 Presidential race!
As one of seven DNC Members elected from Wisconsin to the National Democratic Party, I am honored to have the opportunity to vote this weekend on a Resolution that would make sure that one of the Democratic Presidential debates is focused on the issues of climate change. It is too important of an issue not to have its own focus and to hear solutions from Presidential candidates that actually match the severity of the challenge we face. Climate change causes sever weather events like flooding, hurricanes and wildfires which cost our country billions. It impacts our water quality and causes algae blooms and fish kills. It causes more incidents of lymes disease and vector borne illnesses that put people's lives in danger. And it pushes people from their homes and jobs while taxing our nations already crumbling infrastructure. It has racial, socioeconomic, environmental and national security implications that demand our leadership and action.
I have heard from those impacted across our state and nation saying that this needs to be a priority form whomever become our next President, that we need to act for the sake of our country and our world, and it is because of your advocacy and my own conviction that I will be voting YES for a Democratic Presidential Debate that focuses soley on the Climate Crisis.
- Andrew Werthmann
8 Democratic presidential candidates will participate in CNN climate town hall
8 Democratic presidential candidates will participate in CNN climate town hall
Nine Democratic candidates for president have qualified to participate in next month's Climate Crisis Town Hall, which will air exclusively on CNN platforms. Eight have said they will participate.Alcohol, Drugs Cause Life Expectancy To Drop In Wisconsin
Alcohol, Drugs Cause Life Expectancy To Drop In Wisconsin
A new report says life expectancy in Wisconsin has dropped for two years in a row due in part to increased deaths from alcohol abuse and opioids.FYI, Polk County Board meeting 8/20 has been moved to Unity School at 6pm.
Public comment will probably focus on the 6 month CAFO moratorium (not going to be voted on) and the “We Like Farming” resolution, which will be on the agenda for a vote.
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