Forward Kenosha

10/17/2026

By Irwin Kass, Wisconsin
Electing Tom Tiffany could give one party all of the say-so over our lives.

Separation of powers or checks and balances are wonderful concepts but will be a farce if Republicans control everything. The goal is for an executive to work with the Legislature and vice versa. Compromises are formed. It keeps everyone honest. The voters benefit because the laws are fairer and there is less hanky-panky than if one party controls all levers of power.

Like in Washington, D.C., now where the Republican president tells the Republican House and Senate what he wants. This one-sided system yields unfair results and creates waste, fraud and abuse. Wisconsin voters can prevent this by electing a Democratic governor.

David Crowley is the Democrat running for governor in Wisconsin.

10/17/2026

People keeping trying to tell us to "vote Red." Voting red got us massive federal debt; rising inflation: food, diesel, gas, household goods, utilities, appliances, more; mortgage rates are rising because of inflation and so are rents; Americans are struggling to pay healthcare and childcare and Republicans have offered no solutions - and in many cases their policies have caused prices to rise.

Farms bankruptcies are spiking. We're in another endless foreign war where our young servicemen and women are being killed and injured and our military bases are being destroyed. Trump is siding with Putin and selling out our democratic ally, Ukraine.

We can't afford to vote Red. We can't afford Republican Tom Tiffany as our governor and we can't afford to send Congressman Bryan Steil back to DC because they've both voted for every policy and the war that has made life less affordable.

On November 3rd, vote for commonsense leadership: David Crowley for governor and Mitchell Berman for Congress!

10/17/2026

By Howard Landsman
Trump enabler Tom Tiffany’s misleading campaign ads count on voters’ unfamiliarity with Milwaukee County, describing it as crime-ridden, over-taxed and poorly managed under David Crowley’s leadership. They count on you to be unaware that David Crowley was reelected in 2024 with a stunning 85% of the vote.

No populous county is problem-free, but Milwaukee voters appreciate how Crowley’s tenure has been marked by achievement of the lowest rate of homelessness of any large urban area in America, a significant reduction in violent crime, improved mental health services and his solving the long-standing pension crisis while working with Republicans to deliver an historic local property tax cut.

Indeed, county voters value Crowley’s willingness to buck his party, like when he — alone among Democratic gubernatorial candidates — backed the state budget surplus deal negotiated by Gov. Tony Evers and GOP leaders. While it polled extremely well with voters and promised sizable reductions in property taxes, Tom Tiffany convinced Republican legislators to kill the deal.

Tiffany hides his dismal legislative record under a deluge of negative ads funded by his billionaire backers, even refusing to answer the League of Women Voters candidate questionnaire. Please consider Crowley’s actual record of accomplishment, and don’t fall for Tiffany’s deceptive messaging.

10/17/2026

We cannot allow extremists to control Wisconsin government. Here is Republican Tom Tiffany, running for governor, and Republican Eric Tony, running for Attorney General, standing arm in arm with a man who publicly called for the assassination of another state's governor.
Wisconsinites reject extremism and political violence. On November 3rd, vote David Crowley for governor and Josh Kaul for Wisconsin Attorney General for common sense leadership.

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10/17/2026

Wisconsin can't afford Republican Tom Tiffany as governor. Tiffany voted 100% in Congress with Donald Trump's agenda, including his tariffs, his war and his clean energy rollbacks that have caused prices to surge.

Congressional District 1 can't afford to send Republican Congressman Bryan Steil back to Washington. Steill too voted for all of the policies that have made life unaffordable for Wisconsinites.

635 Days into the Trump Administration and all working families have to show for it is the largest jump in wholesale inflation in four years.

So much for lowering costs on Day One.

10/17/2026

As a retired pediatrician, I spent my career caring for children with asthma. I remember kids who missed school, landed in the emergency department or struggled to breathe while playing. Pollution from burning coal, gas and oil makes asthma worse. Children's lungs are still growing, so they are hurt the most.

Wisconsin can do better. Lawmakers are weighing ideas that deserve our support.

• Data center protections (SB 729/AB 722): Giant data centers use huge amounts of power and water. Without fair rules, your family could end up paying for it. We should pause new ones until the rules are set and make them pay their own costs.

• Clean energy standard (AB 1203/SB 1150): This would require 50% carbon-free electricity by 2030 and 100% by 2050, with rules utilities must follow.

• Utility accountability: Right now, utilities earn more the more they spend. We should reward them for keeping bills low and the lights on.

Clean air and affordable power go together. Families who can't pay energy bills may skip medicine, and that hurts kids too.

Please act this week. Call or email your state senator and representative. Ask them to support these bills and a pause on new data centers. Our children deserve to breathe easy.

NOTE: Tom Tiffany is taking campaign donations from the data center lobby in Wisconsin. David Crowley is not. Tiffany voted in Congress to prevent local and state governments from regulating AI for 10 years. He also voted to speed up the building of data centers. David Crowley believes communities should decide whether they have a data center or not. The candidates also have very different records on the environment: while Crowley is committed to environmental stewardship, focusing on decarbonization and emission reductions, Tiffany has voted to rollback clean energy and environmental regulations that protect the air, land and water.

10/17/2026

Cash-strapped U.S. consumers face a squeeze in their shopping budgets this holiday season, hit by the double whammy of Trump and Republicans tariffs and high energy costs due to Trump and Republicans war.

While overall inflation is creeping up, toy prices are surging, with an increase of 6.6% in the last year, the latest U.S. consumer inflation data showed. Other products that depend on both overseas shipments and petroleum in their manufacturing processes also are posting higher prices.

We can't afford to let Republican Tom Tiffany become Wisconsin's governor and we can't send Congressman Bryan Steil back to Washington to do more of the same. They have voted repeatedly for Trump's tariffs and Trump's war. In fact, they've voted in lockstep with Trump on every policy that has driven prices higher.

Make sure you have a plan to vote for commonsense leadership on November 3rd: David Crowley for governor and Mitchell Berman for Congress.

10/16/2026

No Trumpist for Governor by LaVerne Jaros, Pleasant Prairie WI
What would happen if we elected an irrational Trump supporter as governor?
The elimination of mail-in voting?
More cuts to BadgerCare, Family Care and IRIS (Include, Respect, I Self-Direct)?
Less funding for Special Education?
Less funding for Public Education?
Less protection of our natural resources?
An anti-vaccine agenda?
An open invitation to untrained ICE agents?

How about tax breaks for the rich and favors to his billionaire mega-donors?

When our congressman supported Trump on everything from 2020 election denial to cutting the health insurance for millions of Americans, and received among the highest scores from the ultra-right Heritage Foundation, you’ve got to vote, “NO THANK YOU, Tom Tiffany!”

10/16/2026

We cannot put our elections in the hands of an election denier. Jay Schroeder calls himself a “MAGA aligned candidate on election integrity.” On his website Schroeder calls the BIPARTISAN Wisconsin elections commission, created by the state legislature in 2016, “corrupt” and “a disaster.” The WEC has been under constant attack by MAGA election deniers since Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in 2020.

Schroeder has run for Sec. of State twice before. He was rejected by voters both times. We must reject this election denier again.

On November 3rd, vote for JoCasta Zamarripa, a second-term alder and former five-term member of the state Assembly. Make sure you have a plan to protect our elections on November 3rd.

10/16/2026

By Gail Seitz, Salem WI
In October, we think about Halloween displays, costumes, scary movies. There were two adaptations of "Nightmare Alley" and many versions of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" with the creepy character, Freddy Krueger.

Every day and every night, we are witnessing the making of "A Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue" with scenes shot throughout the world. National and international audiences are horrified by the script:

Another war, another small boat blown out of the water, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents kidnapping and killing citizens on the streets of America, selling off our national parks, threatening to take over allied countries, trying to steal our rights to vote, and refusing to regulate artificial intelligence with its risk to our existence.

It’s time to wake up from this nightmare. Time to tell the backers of this production that their money can't buy our votes.

Let’s fire the producers on Nov. 3 and begin working on the remake!