Tammy Baldwin for U.S. Senate

Oct. 30, 2018

3:40 p.m.

Tammy Baldwin

In her years of service to the people of Wisconsin, voting and advocating on issues from lowering prescription drug prices to defending veterans to holding Wall Street accountable, Sen. Tammy Baldwin has always put the people of her home state first.

One issue stands out right now as the top reason to keep her in the U.S. Senate. In the high-stakes battles over health care of the past decade, she’s been a strong advocate for health care for all. Her defense of people with pre-existing conditions and making sure everyone has high-quality health care is strong. She knows these issues from personal experience as a 9-year-old child who had to be hospitalized for an extensive period of time and as a caregiver to her aging grandparents who raised her. It’s clear in listening to Baldwin that she has a lot of enthusiasm and passion for continuing to stand strong against anyone who tries to undermine our health care.

Given that the majority of Wisconsinites support affordable health care, it’s hard to believe that her opponent, State Sen. Leah Vukmir, has cast so many votes siding with insurance companies against people with pre-existing conditions such as hearing loss, autism and cancer. Vukmir sides with insurance companies and tries to cover up her position by implying that, because she was once a nurse, she would protect health care for everyone. Her voting record shows the truth: She has not.

Unlike Vukmir—whose own Republican colleagues gave her the nickname “Nurse Ratched” from Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest—Baldwin is liked by politicians on both sides of the aisle. She’s worked on 10 bills that have been signed by Trump, who appreciates her support for Buy American. She’s also worked with Republican Senators Marco Rubio, the late John McCain and Susan Collins, among others. Baldwin is willing to listen to anyone and to work across the aisle when it helps Wisconsinites, and she’ll always side with Wisconsin, even if it means taking on some of the most powerful special interests.

Read the rest of our endorsements for the 2018 midterm election here.

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Democrats help taxpayers too

The Democrat base is already voting for Tammy, just because she is Democrat. This is to reach out to the moderates and Trump fans, who think only a Republican can create jobs with "more take-home pay," only a Republican can lower taxes on people in the upper half, only a Republican can build and enforce barriers between people who look like each other and poor people who are just plain different or bothersome.

Yes, only people WITH money can create jobs that will hire someone with a W2 reported paycheck. Therefore lowering taxes on the 6-figures and up class (and lowering regulation enforced business expenses) is the ONLY way to create jobs in their minds.

But... these job creators won't bother unless they see customers with money ready to spend. Without paying customers, all they do is take those tax/regulation savings and pay it out to themselves. What's so hard to understand about that? That's being real.

So how do you get customers with money to spend?

This is why Democrats give workers rights against greedy employers,
This is why Democrats raise minimum wage, provide healthcare to all.
This is why Democrats spread the sick-exception costs over many people.
This is why Democrats raise taxes ONLY on people with more than they need,
This is why Democrats educate and hire everyone regardless of differences.

A dollar in the cash register is still a dollar, regardless if it came from black hands, brown hands, white hands, legal hands, illegal hands, straight hands or LGBTQ hands.

It is all to create more customers who have money to spend,
and that drives the ambitious to create jobs to handle that higher demand.

Taxing the top to make sure enough money is sustainably trickled down to let it be re-earned by all of us in Wisconsin and American private jobs. Reagan's "trickle-down by personal choice" does not return enough money down low enough to let all ambitious working and Middle Class people succeed and be good customers to Private business.

SE Wisc. Citizen more than 6 years ago