Last week Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a brief in Judge Chutkin's court, laying out in greater detail the case against Benedict Donald and his plots to overturn the 2020 presidential election, using four distinct approaches: 1) the fraudulent electors scheme, 2) the pressure on state legislators, 3) the pressure on VP Pence, and 4) the insurrection. There was substantial media coverage of the 165+ pages, mostly teasing out nuggets of new information. For example, the New York Times introduced its post of the full brief with the headline Read the Special Counsel’s Newly Unsealed Evidence Against Trump. In their analysis, Alan Feuer and Charlie Savage focus on the new evidence even while acknowledging that the purpose of the filing is to argue that Dolt 45 is not immune from prosecution for these acts. The Washington Post also focused on the new evidence in the brief:

More interesting, to me at least, is an analysis by Stanford criminal law expert David Sklansky:

Sklansky gets right to the core of the matter. The new evidence in the filing "would be shocking and explosive," except that we already knew so much similar evidence that the new pieces don't really illuminate additional legal angles. The filing is significant, he says, because of what it reveals about the special counsel's approach. Sklansky argues that the case Smith is bringing is all about fraud. "It doesn’t charge Trump with insurrection, or with instigating the assault on the Capitol. Trump is charged with trying to take advantage of the January 6 riot, but not with provoking it. But the prosecutors’ filing makes clear that they intend to prove at trial that Trump did intentionally egg on the rioters."

Legal eagles will note that a fraud case depends heavily on the prosecutor's case that the fraudster knew what he was claiming — that he won the 2020 election — was false. Hence the avalanche of evidence in the brief. Sklansky considers "the evidence of Trump’s fraudulent intent — the evidence that he knew he was lying — is vastly stronger than in most [other fraud] cases. Fraud cases usually proceed, and often are successful, with significantly less evidence of fraudulent intent than Smith and his team have outlined in this case."

The Cowardly Lyin’ and his lawyers have until November 7 to respond to this brief and to try to claim that the acts Don the Con undertook and the evidence that he knew he was lying are all protected with the ersatz immunity the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) gifted to him. It will undoubtedly be a very long time before this case makes it into a courtroom, since whatever Judge Chutkin rules on the immunity question will be appealed, perhaps more than once, to SCOTUS. Also, of course, if Adolf Twitler is elected again, the case goes away forever.

Turning now to the election here, there is some confusion about the availability of drop boxes for those of us who vote by absentee ballot. While the Wisconsin Supreme Court reinstated municipalities' ability to use them for elections, the court left it to the clerks (some 1800 of them in Wisconsin) to decide whether they would be available. Some clerks have in fact chosen not to use one. So it's best if you call your municipal clerk to ask. Note: Absentee voters in the City of Milwaukee — Drop boxes will be operational by 10:30am on Monday, October 14, 2024 through Election Day, Tuesday November 5, 2024 until 6:00pm. You'll find a list of drop box locations and early voting places and schedules on our site.

Your Do Something List

Jodi Habush Sinykin: More Postcard Bags available for pickup!!!!!!
We have 60 more postcards bags for pickup... first come first served! The bags will live on my front doorstep in cardboard box... please stop by whenever suits you from now (Tuesday, Oct 8th), through this weekend (Sunday, October 13th). Address is 400 E Daphne Road, Fox Point WI, 53217. Limit of 2 bags per person. Please text or call 414-795-1433 with any questions. If you take a bag of postcards, PLEASE CONSIDER SIGNING UP FOR A CANVASSING SHIFT AS WELL!

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Help register students at UWM during a two-hour shift. We will have a table in the library on Tuesday, October 15, and Wednesday, October 16. Indicate whether you are available in the morning or afternoon. Contact Sue Schneidler to volunteer.

WisDems
WisDems have opened an office on the corner of E. North and Vel Phillips Ave. where they are preparing for a big push in the final weeks leading up to Election Day. This will be the staging area for canvassing and other activities. I am among volunteers supporting their work, and we are looking for help. Can you help support the cause? Here is what we need.
    • Bottled water for canvassers
    • Grab-and-go snacks for volunteers, including healthy options
    • Ready-to-eat meals for staff members, either purchased (e.g., sandwiches) or homemade (e.g., crock-pot chili or soup)
    • Coffee and tea supplies
We are looking to fill specific slots of time. We're still verifying the schedule, but we know for sure we'd need items on these days:
    • Sat. Oct. 19, Sun. Oct. 20, Sat. Oct. 26, Sun. Oct. 27
    • Sat. Nov. 2, Sun. Nov. 3, Mon. Nov. 4, Tues. Nov. 5
We will ask that items be both dropped off and, if needed, picked up (such as a crock pot or chafing dish). To volunteer to help, email Diane Bacha.

WisDems Voter Protection

1. Be a WisDems Poll Observer this November!
   Want to be an incredible in-person resource for Wisconsin voters on Election Day? Join our team as a poll observer! Poll observers are the eyes and ears of our team on Election Day and are stationed at polling locations across the state, ready to help voters with any issues they might face when casting their ballot. Without observers, we simply cannot protect the ballot on Election Day. You can sign up to be an observer with our team this November 5th by filling out this form: wisdems.org/novemberpollobserver. Additionally, feel free to share that link with friends or family that you think would be interested in joining our program! Sign up to be a poll observer now!
   
   
2. UPCOMING: Help recruit Poll Observers to defend democracy!
   Our team has phonebanks four times a week through mid October to recruit volunteer poll observers for the upcoming election. These calls are fun, easy, and incredibly rewarding – as you know, every poll observer we recruit is an additional resource to voters across the state. Poll observers are our biggest asset to protect the vote! Join a Recruitment Phonebank!
   
   
3. UPCOMING: Distributed Ballot Cure Trainings!
   Join the Cure team to directly help voters get their votes counted! In ballot cure calls, we call voters whose absentee ballots are in danger of rejection, and walk them through the steps to remedy it. It’s the most tangible way to defend democracy from the comfort of your own home. Once you’re trained, you can make calls on your own time. Sign up below! Sign up for a Distributed Cure Training!

One last thing before you hit the events list with its extensive opportunities to help the campaigns. Our founding father, Keith Schmitz, has posted an article — Happy Days Are Here Again — It’s Just That the GOP Is Refusing to Tell You That — on the Grassroots North Shore site. In it, he lays out solid evidence that, unlike Orange Julius, President Biden "strategically allocated funds to improve infrastructure, nurture a burgeoning green energy sector that promotes genuine energy independence, bring manufacturing back to the U.S., and fund research into technologies that will drive future innovation, along with job training to ensure the workforce can come along for the ride with these advancements." It's worth a read to shore up your own ability to explain why Bidenomics is, in fact, working.

So there was a debate between the candidates for Vice President. Who "won"? Does it matter? These are the questions foremost on the minds of political nerds. CNN ran an instant poll. The upshot: "No clear winner in VP debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance." Here's Politico's snap poll of likely voters: Dead even: POLITICO snap poll shows stark division on debate. "There was no decisive winner in the first-and-only vice presidential debate of the 2024 election."

There was a little bit of "fact-checking" by the moderators but the structure of many questions was already predicated on facts. Both the Washington Post and NPR have undertaken more comprehensive truth-telling investigations.The Washington Post checked 21 statements, 2/3rds of which were Vance's assertions, judged to be false or disingenuous or wrong or "a whitewash of Trump’s actions." Only three of the Walz statements were ruled "false." Two were said to be exaggerated. One was judged "true."

I counted 11 fact-checked statements in the NPR analysis. Ten were statements from JD Vance. Only one, the Tiananmen Square "issue" from 1989, was about Walz. That's a reach into the distant past: Vance was a young child then! Walz of course said he misspoke about being in China in June 1989. (He was there, but not until August that year.) And he was self-deprecating about it: "I've not been perfect, and I'm a knucklehead at times ... I got there that summer and misspoke on this." Surely that's enough said on what is after all a pretty trivial example of resumé fluffing.

In breaking news, the special counsel's last filing in the January 6 case is a "bombshell," according to abcNEWS.com. The New York Times article is a bit more restrained but the headline announces a key fact: "Judge Unseals New Evidence in Federal Election Case Against Trump." The filing was originally sealed. Judge Chutkin herself made its contents public. In response to the US Supreme Court ruling that presidents enjoy absolute immunity for "official acts," the special counsel argues that the acts included in the superseding indictment were "examples of Mr. Trump pursuing electioneering activity in his private role as a candidate for office, not as protected acts taken in his official capacity as president."

To poll junkies, I want to say "just don't!" But since they're going to seek out polls every day regardless, everyone ought to know that the Marquette Law School poll, overseen by Charles Franklin, was published today. The headline tells the top-line story: Presidential choices in Wisconsin hold steady in new Marquette Law School Poll results, with Harris at 52% and Trump at 48%. The 4-point margin is the same whether the responses are from registered voters or likely voters and also whether the test is head-to-head or includes third-party candidates. The margin of error is 4.4% for both registered and likely voters. So the news for Harris is pretty good in this state, but we're always within the "margin of effort.""

The poll also looked at the race for the Senate and found Baldwin besting Hovde 53% to 46% both among registered voters and among likely voters. Notably, "enthusiasm among Democrats is slightly higher than among Republicans in this poll, with 71% of Democrats saying they are very enthusiastic and 67% of Republicans also very enthusiastic." But the spread is wider if we consider the sum of those who are very and somewhat enthusiastic about the November election: 91% for Democrats and 84% for Republicans.

The final nuggets from the Marquette poll: of the 10 presidential candidates who will be listed on the Wisconsin ballot, only Tim Walz is viewed favorably! Harris is -3, Trump -11, Vance -13. Of the also-rans, Jill Stein comes in at -17 with RFK Jr a close -15. The preponderance of Wisconsin voters — 34% — consider themselves "moderate." Of those voters, 61% intend to vote for Harris! Voters for Trump include 94% of Republicans, 39% Independents, and 1% of Democrats (really?). But 99% of registered voters who consider themselves Democrats and 61% of those who consider themselves Independent say they are voting for Harris. As Simon Rosenberg (Hopium Chronicles) says, "I'd rather be us than them."

Voting everywhere, it seems, is more complicated than it needs to be. And Wisconsin seems to rate high on the list of places where it is often confusing. We do our best to bring you accurate and timely information about aspects of Wisconsin voting rules. Absentee voting is underway. You can request an absentee ballot at MyVote.WI.gov until October 16. In some places you can use a drop box to return the voted ballot. But in other places, like Glendale, you either have to put the certification envelope with your ballot inside into the US Mails or you have to return it in person to the clerk's office in your municipality. The same site can confirm your registration status, help you re-register if necessary, tell you how to contact your municipal clerk, and give you the location of your polling place.

Early in-person voting begins on Tuesday, October 22, and in most places ends on Friday, November 1. Visit our early voting page for specific information for your municipality. The City of Milwaukee has different locations, days and times for early voting. You'll find that information here.

The rest of the Elections 2024 pages provide some fabulous ads and other video content for the Kamala Harris and Tim Walz campaign. We also have a Side-by-Side Comparison of Key Campaign Issues. There's a little information about Project 2025 for you to read. (I plan to augment the page in the next week.) Perhaps the most important information for this election, though, is the Constitutional amendment on the November 5 ballot. Here's our page explaining what it is, why it's wrong for Wisconsin, and why you need to vote no. Once you've looked at it, please spread the word to family, friends and colleagues.

Here are some of the THINGS TO DO.

• North Shore Fair Maps, Monday October 4, 7:00pm (CT): "We'll Be Ready!"
  This virtual meeting will feature Alice Herman (The Guardian), Scott Thompson (Law Forward) and Alex Dubinsky (WisDems Voter Protection). The best way to prepare for the 2024 election season is to understand it. At our final pre-election meeting we go behind the curtain to see the Trump/MAGA and Democrat ground game (what Alice Herman sees and hears from voters); learn what lawyers are doing to be ready for controversy (Law Forward is gearing up); hear how voter protection experts will insure a free and fair election (the WisDems VoPro team is hard at work); and find out what WE can to do to help. We will also get a Fair Maps update from our own Carlene Bechen. SPECIAL NOTES: THIS MEETING IS CLOSED TO THE PRESS: NO RECORDING OF THIS MEETING WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE. Register.
• Souls to the Polls.
  Souls To The Polls (STP) is planning to drop flyers at homes in the neighborhoods surrounding several early vote sites. We really need volunteers to help in this important effort. The Early vote begins Tuesday October 22 and ends Sunday November 3rd. We have set two dates for door hanging the Souls to the Polls flyers. We plan to meet at the parking lot in front of the Police Station at 2333 N 49th St Milwaukee, WI 53210 on Saturday Oct. 19th at 10 am and Sunday Oct. 20th at 1 pm. We will get the flyers and maps to the volunteers and go over the details to get people started with the distribution in that neighborhood. The flyers include a phone number to call Souls to the Polls if someone needs a ride to go vote and information about early voting. This will be putting lit in doors. No door knocking. If you can volunteer, please e-mail Leanne Wied or call her at 262-366-5356.
• Republicans for Harris/Walz Weekly Phone Banks, Every Wednesday at 6:00pm Online.
  This election is about ensuring a better future for our country. We all know what's at stake, and your voice can help elect Kamala Harris and defeat Donald Trump in November. By connecting with Republican and Independent voters, we can build bridges and bring more people into this movement for change. Whether you've volunteered before or are new to phone banking, we welcome everyone. Your participation is crucial in reaching out to voters, having meaningful conversations, and getting them ready to cast their ballots for Kamala Harris. Sign up.

The events listed below are full of canvassing opportunities. If you can canvass, please sign up for at least one shift. We're in the penumbra of the election. Some of us have already voted! And there's no time to lose. If you can't canvass, please sign up with me (Nancy Kaplan) to phone likely Democratic women who recently received a post card encouraging them to vote for Democratic candidates. These follow-up phone calls focus on the Constitutional amendment almost no one seems to know about. They also encourage people to vote early if at all possible. It's important that we beat the MAGA Republicans. But it is also important that we defeat the proposed amendment.

We are also preparing handouts for students on the UWM and MIAD campuses. We could use more volunteers to help talk to students about voting. On UWM's campas, the Zelazo Center will be open for early in-person voting. And the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center will be a polling place for people in wards 123 and 126 in Milwaukee. If you'd like to sign up to hand out flyers, contact Norma Gilson.

YARD SIGNS! While they last, of course. You can pick one up at Cheryl Maranto's: email or text (414-429-1583 ) her to make arrangements. Mark Gennis has some as well. Again, contact him by email .

Before we get to the all important opportunities for you to DO SOMETHING to elect Democrats to all the offices on your November 5 ballot, I want to start with a recently passed national election law that could mitigate the effects of, for example, the dozens of changes the Georgia Election Board has just made to election procedures, most of which are designed to gum up the works. Other states are also rushing to make changes even as the election draws near and early voting has already begun in many states. (Note: absentee ballots have already started to be mailed in Wisconsin. I voted and returned mine yesterday! You can still request yours online until October 16.) The media have been covering these new election rules with a slightly breathless and panicky air. But help is at hand.

So, a lot of pixels and ink have been devoted to divining the state of the presidential race. Poll after poll after poll keeps telling us that it's going to be a nail biter. Yet almost no reporting has looked at what happens between the day all the votes have been cast and the certification of the election on January 6, 2025. That period between early November and January 6, 2021, is where the Barbecued Brutus campaign did most of its consequential mischief after all. It is really worth our while, then, to learn about the Electoral Count Reform Act (ECRA). Knowing how much ECRA has clarified and changed the numerous activities that take place once the polls close might lower your anxiety level about what destructive activities the MAGAs could try. So here is the Campaign Legal Center's explanation of the law.

Watch the program.

Especially important, it seems to me, is the provision that any state failing to certify its results by the specified deadline will simply be subtracted from the total electoral votes cast. So, for example, if Georgia misses the deadline for certifying because, say, some county officials refuse to certify the vote in their jurisdictions, the total number of electoral votes cast will be reduced by 16, the number of electoral votes allocated to that state. As a result, the new majority number needed to win will also be reduced, from 270 to 262.

Equally important, before ECRA, challenges to Electoral College votes needed just one representative and one senator to send the House and the Senate to their respective chambers to debate the objection. ECRA now requires that challenges to Electoral College votes come from 20% of EACH house of Congress. The threshold is not, of course, insurmountable but it is much more difficult to achieve.

An article in the September 24 issue of Urban Milwaukee — Can Wisconsin Handle Election Deniers This Time? — provides a good look at the myriad conspiracy theories in Wisconsin after the 2020 election and then notes that "despite the hold that election conspiracy theories have on a subset of Wisconsin Republicans, elections experts say the state is prepared for 2024 and unlikely to see a repeat of the 2020 effort to overturn results."

So ECRA and the preventive plans already laid in place might calm some fears, but the issues in this election definitely amp them up. On September 8, Grassroots North Shore held a program to elucidate what future the MAGAites have planned for us and what we have done and can do to defeat it. In the spirit of forewarned is forearmed, you should see it: the video. Attorney General Josh Kaul, the lead-off speaker (beginning at about 6 minutes and 25), reminds us of how much Democrats and progressives have won in Wisconsin over the last seven years. He's followed by Kathleen Schluter, who lays out what White Christian nationalists are trying to achieve. The final speaker, Joe Zepecki, a seasoned political manager, pumped us all up. Please, share it widely. Also have a look at the video, Once Democracy is Gone on YouTube.

As we rush headlong into getting all of our supporters to vote, you should be aware that there is more on the ballot than the candidates. We face yet another ballot question that directly addresses our voting rights. The League of Women Voters has been a leader on the Vote No campaign to defeat the ballot question/constitutional amendment: make sure you read the Vote No November landing page and watch a recording of their recent webinar on the topic. And then talk to your family, friends, and neighbors about voting NO on this ballot question.

As a key part of Grassroots North Shore's efforts to inform voters and to get like-minded people to the polls, we are beginning to phone the women in the North Shore and in the entire 8th Senate District to whom we sent post cards. While the cards promoted voting for key candidates, the calls focus on the ballot question and on absentee and early voting. It's quite a large number for us to try to accomplish. Some of you have already volunteered to make these calls, but we need many more. If you can take a call list, please contact Nancy Kaplan, [email protected].

Now here are some of the things you could and should be doing (in addition to all the canvassing opportunities you will find in the events listing):

Coming right up: the VEEP debate on Tuesday, October 1. You won't want to miss the chance to watch seasoned Governor Tim Walz waltz all over the least popular VP pick in forever. He's no hillbilly. More like a starched shirt: wrinkle free but really unpleasant to wear. The festivities are being held at the Bavarian Bierhaus, 700 W Lexington Blvd, Glendale, from 6:30 - 10:00pm. The show is free! So Sign up.

The events list includes numerous campaign opportunities, especially canvassing, the gold standard for turnout elections like this one. Although it's happening nearly every day from now until November 5, the listings focus on weekend canvassing. I cannot stress enough how important it is to help. A lot of us, myself included, cannot manage the physical stamina it takes to walk a turf. If that describes you, then sign up to make calls instead, even if you have to move outside your comfort zone. Do not leave this work to others. It will take all of us to win.

Another election — another constitutional amendment ballot question. Unlike the two ballot questions we defeated in August, this one undermines our right to vote. On the surface it seems unusually meaningless. The current language reads: "Every United States citizen age 18 or older who is a resident of an election district in this state is a qualified elector of that district who may vote in an election for national, state, or local office or at a statewide or local referendum." The text of the ballot question reads: "Shall section 1 of article III of the constitution, which deals with suffrage, be amended to provide that only a United States citizen age 18 or older who resides in an election district may vote in an election for national, state, or local office or at a statewide or local referendum?" In other words, the amendment would change "every United States citizen" to "only a United States citizen." See Ballotpedia for the full text.

So why is this change so pernicious? For one thing, it's unnecessary. It is already illegal for non-citizens to vote. For another thing, it's vanishingly rare for someone who is not eligible to try to vote. Since 2019, only three people who were not eligible nevertheless tried to vote in Wisconsin! For a third thing, the amendment process circumvents the governor. The legislature originally passed this language as a bill but Governor Evers vetoed it.The GOP-gerrymandered legislature could not muster the votes to override the veto and so is trying to amend the constitution instead because the Governor cannot veto a proposed constitutional amendment.

More importantly, the change opens the door to unwarranted challenges to voter registration and participation by allowing election officials, poll observers, and others to challenge voters to prove their citizenship with a birth certificate, naturalization papers, or a passport, documents to which as many as one in 10 Americans lack easy access. So we urge you to VOTE NO and to encourage your family and friends to so the same. In the section of the newsletter with details about how you can DO SOMETHING, you can sign up to write postcards about this amendment to other Wisconsin voters.

On the state of the presidential race since the debate, Simon Rosenberg has some cheery news for us in yesterday's Hopium Chronicles. All the polls cited can be found on 538. Here's a sampling:

• Harris 51-43 (+8) Big Village (new this am, +4 pts from before debate)
• Harris 51-45 (+6) Morning Consult (new this am, +3 since last Monday)
• Harris 52-46 (+6) Ipsos/ABC
• Harris 49-44 (+5) Monmouth
• Harris 47-42 (+5) Ipsos/Reuters
• Harris 51-47 (+4) RMG
• Harris 50-46 (+4) Data For Progress

The latest Marquette Law School Poll, in the field before the debate but after the Democratic National Convention, showed that Harris has a 4 point lead over the Butternut Berlusconi, still within the 4.6 margin of error but 3 points better than the previous poll. You can find a discussion of the results on Marquette University Law School website. The poll includes results for the US Senate race between Tammy Baldwin and Eric Hovde. It is also the subject of WisEye's Rewind. The conversation is full of caveats. And I'll add mine: polls have not been our best friends in the last two presidential elections. Best not to put too much weight on them. Instead, remember that we are always inside the margin of effort.

In RFK Jr news, a district court has ruled that his name must remain on the Wisconsin ballot. For a nerdy legal treat, you can view Judge Ehlke eviscerating Kennedy's case. Kennedy has now appealed. Whether his name remains on the ballot matters because in the latest Marquette poll, he stands at 6%. If he were pulling more votes away from the Harris/Walz ticket, he would want to remain on the ballot. The fact that he is trying so hard to be removed speaks volumes about who his campaign (or Adolf Twitler's) thinks voters for him would be harming.

In fact, ballots have already been sent to Americans abroad and will soon be mailed to those who have already requested absentee ballots. In its filing for the 2nd District Court of Appeals, the Wisconsin Department of Justice writes that "what Petitioner cannot do is require his name to be removed from the ballot: Wis. Stat. § 8.35(1) prohibits candidates from withdrawing once they have qualified." The brief goes on to note that at this late date, removing Kennedy's name from the ballot would force "county and municipal elections officials to miss state and federal deadlines for providing ballots to absentee voters, including military and overseas voters. The timing barrier here is just as acute as in Hawkins, where the Wisconsin Supreme Court held it was too late for a change to the general election ballot. That harm far outweighs Petitioner’s desire to convey to voters his support for another candidate through his absence from Wisconsin ballots."

As part of his argument for removing his name from the ballot, Kennedy's lawyers apparently proposed placing a sticker on every one of the millions of ballots needed for the presidential election. The task would be "herculean." Plus, stickers might actually gum up the works. "The voting equipment to be used for the upcoming election has not been tested with stickers applied to ballots. The stickers could peel off, get jammed or stuck in the voting tabulator, or stick to and rip other ballots, to name a few possible likelihoods." Anyway, the filing states, "placing stickers on ballots is not legal."

This drama serves to remind us of just how harmful third party candidates can be in elections that are as close as those in Wisconsin have typically been. The Marquette poll cited above has the total of all third party votes at 10% of likely voters. Emilee Fannon on Rewind reports that Charles Franklin, the director of the poll, apparently expects the third party vote to dwindle by Election Day. It was about 3% in the 2020 election. But even that smaller proportion of the votes could affect the outcome here.

In a brief discussion, JR Ross, editor of Rewind, drills down on the race between Baldwin and Hovde to note that a major Republican super pac is not buying ad time in Wisconsin, possibly because Hovde is so wealthy that he may not need their funds but also possibly because Baldwin has just been so strong, winning by nearly 11% when she was last re-elected in 2018. Also notable is that the poll finds her with 52% of the vote. For those of us who are math-challenged that means more than half the respondents chose Baldwin in the most recent poll.

Before I turn you loose on the things you can be doing in the next couple of weeks, I want to make a case for voting early, either by absentee ballot or in-person. Voting early "banks" your vote, leaving you free on Election Day to do good work by driving people to the polls (sign up with Souls to the Polls), by doing some last minute canvassing to turn out the last votes, by being a poll observer (volunteer with the Wisconsin Democratic Party), or even by volunteering with your local municipal clerk to be an election inspector (i.e., a poll worker). Elections run on the labor of ordinary citizens as well as with paid election administrators. So working to make our elections free and fair is a wonderful way to be a proud participant on Election Day. Also, as Yogi Berra once said, “It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” You never know when you will be ill or called out of town or have a car accident that prevents you from voting on November 5!

Absentee ballots are a little fiddly — because the certification envelope needs the signature and address of a witness — but they are secure and not, as some would have it, rife with corruption. They can now be returned three ways: in the US Mail, in a drop box, or in your municipal clerk's office. The ballots already requested will start to be mailed to you tomorrow. So you'll have plenty of time to look up key positions of the candidates: you can start by visiting our web page for the November 5 election. And you can have your ballot right next to the device you're using to do your research! You can get a sample of the ballot for your area at MyVote.WI.gov and you can also use that site to request an absentee ballot.

Voting early in person is actually just a different method for voting with an absentee ballot. The main difference is that you do it live and in person, typically in your municipal clerk's office. You can find out when and where to use this method on our Early Voting Information page for the North Shore and Ozaukee communities and on our page for the City of Milwaukee. Of course, you won't have the convenience of leisurely research as you would with an absentee ballot. So you'll need to use a smart phone to look up information about candidates as you vote in person. As you will, of course, if you vote on Election Day.

Now here are some SOMETHINGS you can DO:

• Write postcards for Jodi Habush Sinykin. The Jodi team has been assembling postcard bags — each bag has 60 postcards, 60 stamps, 60 addresses, and a Directions Sheet. The campaign has 100 bags ready to go. You can pick up a Postcard Baggie on Sunday, September 22, from 2:00pm to 5:00pm at 400 E Daphne Road, Milwaukee, WI 53217. Call or text Talia at 414-795-1433 with any questions.
  
  
• Write postcards for the VOTE NO campaign to defeat the Wisconsin Constitutional Amendment on the November 5 ballot. Part of the message reads: "This amendment addresses a problem that doesn't exist and lays the groundwork to assault the voting rights of eligible voters (e.g., elderly, students, women) who might have trouble proving citizenship at the voting booth." You can request the postcards in lots of 50.

I trust everyone watched the debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and that shambolic former president last night. If you didn't here's a spoiler alert: she crushed, humiliated, and shamed him all night long. It's not just me saying it. Here's Steve Schmidt, former Republican operative: "Trump looked like a schlub for most of the debate. His shoulders were crumpled into a position of loserdom and weakness. His eyes were lowered and his head down because that is the position of subordination, defeat and humiliation. He was disemboweled by Kamala Harris, who destroyed him by becoming the first American in a decade to stand toe-to-toe with him, and call him out with eloquence, precision and devastating examples. [She] did what none of the men Trump rolled over could do. She emasculated him, shamed him, humiliated him, held him to account, expressed contempt, dismay and wonderment, while dismissing him with a look that was worth ten million words."

I could round up dozens of similar takes, but I don't have to because a diarist at Daily Kos has already done the work. He cites a wide variety of media outlets with links. So give yourself a little treat and cruise through the list. Of course if you have the time, you might want to watch the whole thing. Maybe even again! It was that thrilling. If you have less time, you might want to watch the Washington Post's ‘I’m talking now’: Most memorable lines from the Trump-Harris debate (about 10 minutes).

The New York Times has published a long article — 2024 Presidential Election Calendar — that details the dates for absentee balloting and early in person voting in pretty much every state. Though, oddly, Wisconsin does not make the list of states with voting by mail options, it does list October 31 for the last date to request an absentee ballot. If you want to vote by mail in this state, you should know that absentee ballots begin to be mailed on September 19. And you probably should request one at My Vote now. The article is a reminder that Election Day starts NOW and ENDS on November 5!

The Brennan Center has a great piece on How Voting Laws Have Changed in Battleground States Since 2020, including in Wisconsin. Here's their account: "Lawmakers in Wisconsin have made multiple attempts over the past few years to enact restrictive legislation. They would have succeeded but for Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who vetoed at least seven restrictive bills that the Republican-controlled legislature passed. Four would have restricted the mail voting process, making it harder to apply for, or have a mail ballot counted. The fifth would have made it more difficult to join and remain on the state’s permanent mail voting list. The sixth and seventh would have mandated the Wisconsin Elections Commission to verify with the Division of Motor Vehicles that registered voters are citizens. Motor vehicle data is often outdated, meaning that people who have become naturalized citizens may be wrongfully purged."

One of those last two, verifying the citizenship of voters, is going to appear on your November 5 ballot as a potential Wisconsin Constitutional Amendment. It is already illegal for non-citizens to vote and the instances of such voting are vanishingly rare. So from the jump, the amendment is unnecessary. If passed, it would change the current language — "Every United States citizen age 18 or older who is a resident of an election district" is a qualified voter — to say "Only a United States citizen age 18 or older who is a resident of an election district is a qualified voter." The League of Women Voters explains why this apparently meaningless change is nevertheless "harmful and can diminish our voting rights." The League will hold a webinar on the topic on Tuesday, September 17 at 7pm Central Time. You can register here.

Also the League has now published its Voter Guide — VOTE411.org — with essential information for Wisconsin voters ahead of the November 5 election. It has also published a podcast — This is What Democracy Sounds Like — with Carlene Bechen discussing the new maps.

The Milwaukee Chapter of the League is providing Voter Registration Training on Thursday, September 12, from 3:00 - 4:00pm at No Studios, 1037 W McKinley Ave. You will learn how to register people to vote using MyVote.WI.gov, including what is acceptable photo ID. Registration is required. You can also use the online tutorial, both in a text version and in a video version.

Three additional ways to DO SOMETHING have come to my attention this week:

1. The Jodi Habush Sinykin campaign is seeking places to put large Jodi signs. So, do you have a high-visibility yard, or a friend who does? We want to put the 8' x 4' and 4' x 4' signs all over the district!! Please reach out to [email protected] for sign requests.
   
   
2. Become part of the DPW Voter Protection program. It's critical, and there are many opportunities to help, including observing, manning phones, etc. Sign up for training. The highest priority for the VoPro team is recruiting poll observers. They are the eyes and ears around the state. Sign up to be a poll observer. And here is a document with all their volunteer opportunities.
   
   
3. Apartment and condo buildings are hard to reach when canvassing. We are looking to have a Democrat in every building in Shorewood to be the point of contact. You will be a given a list of building tenants and a script to reach the Democrats in these residences and invite them to be a part of this innovative program. To be a recruiter, contact Keith Schmitz.

And as usual, there's a copious list of events you can participate in over the next few weeks.

Michele Obama exhorts us to DO SOMETHING!! OK, but what can each of us do? Here's what:

• Volunteer for a canvass, taking place pretty much every Saturday and Sunday from now until November 5:
      Fox Point / Bayside
      Glendale
      Lakefront
      Shorewood
      Whitefish Bay
      Mequon
      Grafton and Cedarburg
      Jodi Habush Sinykin campaign
  
  If you are physically unable to canvass but would volunteer to drive canvassers through their turfs, send email to Nancy Kaplan. If you can, include the dates you would be available. Shifts run at 9am, 12noon, and 3pm.
  
  
• Volunteer to write postcards: We're targeting likely Democratic women with a goal of informing them of key candidates and to encourage them to vote. Grassroots North Shore will provide the postcards, names/addresses, stamps, and easy instructions. Send email to Norma Gilson.
  
  
• Volunteer to make phone calls: We will be following up our initial postcard mailing with phone calls to women voters who lean toward Democratic candidates. We've expanded our mailing target to just under 9,000 voters. Grassroots North Shore will provide names, phone numbers, scripts to use, and brief instructions. To reach such a large number of voters, we will REALLY NEED YOUR HELP. Send email to Nancy Kaplan.
  
  
• Volunteer to handout voter information at UWM, MIAD, and possibly other colleges and universities in the area. Grassroots North Shore will provide you with flyers and schedule specific days and times with you. Send email to Norma Gilson.
  
  
• Volunteer to write letters to those Republican women who probably voted for Nikki Haley in our April 2 presidential primary. Grassroots North Shore will provide a printed letter with a space for a hand-written note and a signature line, names and address, envelopes, and stamps. Send email to Nancy Kaplan.
  
  
• If you can't volunteer for some reason or just because you hate knocking on doors or calling/texting strangers, you can help Grassroots North Shore's efforts to elect Democrats and Progressives by donating to our fund for stamps, postcards, envelopes, printing, and the data that allows us to target our efforts.

Finally, though more in the semi-distant future, WAVE is holding a statewide Emergency Gun Violence Summit at the Baird Center (400 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee) on Thursday, October 10. Register for Wisconsin's largest gun violence prevention event, organized by Forward Latino and the 80% Coalition, a group of nearly 40 advocacy, business, faith-based, and service organizations! WAVE has generously offered supporters of Grassroots North Shore an opportunity to attend the event, including the luncheon, free of charge!

Now to the news: In case you missed Tuesday's ballot access news, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has you covered. In addition to Vice President Harris and the Butternut Berlusconi, the also-rans will include RFK Jr, Jill Stein, Cornel West, and one or two others. According to the MJS article, "the latest Marquette University Law School poll released in early August and before Kennedy dropped out, Vice President Kamala Harris had a two-point lead over Trump when third-party candidates were factored in. Polling for Kennedy has declined to 8% from double digits earlier in the year, and other third-party candidates are polling at 1% or less in Wisconsin."

Third party candidates, frankly, never succeed. But they can cause mischief. In The Guardian, David Daley articulates a solution that respects what third parties represent but also drains the mischief from their effects: "We need a modern fix that recognizes that third parties are here to stay, but also that a nation with a guiding principle of majority rule deserves winners who earn more than 50% of their fellow Americans’ votes. The best solution to the urgent 'spoiler' problem – which we’ve been exhaustingly debating since Ross Perot’s run in 1992 – is ranked-choice voting (RCV)."

Of course there are other, perhaps more reliable, ways of causing electoral mischief. The news from Georgia's Election Board is, for example, concerning since it seems as if it's just the most visible of widespread efforts to delay certifying vote counts in several states in an effort to stymy Congressional certification on January 6, 2025. Here's how Ian Millhiser explains the situation on Vox.com. "The Georgia State Elections Board recently enacted two new rules that seem designed to allow local election officials to sabotage the state’s vote-counting process.... The rules seek to alter the role of local election officials known as superintendents, whose job is to gather the vote tallies from the polling places within their jurisdiction, add up the tallies, and report those numbers to Georgia’s secretary of state. For at least a century, the Georgia Supreme Court has held that this duty is 'purely ministerial' and that these superintendents 'have no right to adjudicate upon the subject of irregularity or fraud' in an election."

Rick Hasen (Gary T. Schwartz Endowed Chair in Law and Professor of Political Science in the UCLA School of Law) will be publishing an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on August 31 titled Why It Will Be Harder for Trump to Challenge This Year’s Election. He's put part of the essay on Election Law Blog, which he curates.

His full text will be behind the Journal's paywall, but even his excerpt is well worth a read.

Perhaps, like me, you were unaware that the Electoral Count Reform Act basically removes the threat of the so-called "contingent election," a process which would almost certainly anoint Benedict Don-Old. So it is important to know that the Act is "a strong bipartisan bill and major victory for voters’ ability to make their voices heard in future presidential elections" (Campaign Legal Center, February 15, 2024).

And then there's the joy that cometh in the morning! The New York Times opinion section offers Joy Can Do More Than Beat Trump by David French: "After nine years of confronting Donald Trump and facing a MAGA movement that has remade the Republican Party I once belonged to, I believe that fear may be sufficient to beat Trump, but only joy can push MAGA back to the periphery of American life." He goes on to wonder "if we’re leaving the era of the nasty snarl in favor of the broad smile. And it’s not just the Harris surge that’s made me wonder about this." The link above should get you past the paywall and the opinion is also worth a full read.

And on those hopeful signs of a nascent sanity in our political stew, how about a little Randy Rainbow to sing us out: The Lawyer or the Conman.

What a wonderful convention the Democrats are putting on! I was unable to hear many of the early speeches because I was in Fiserv Forum for the Harris/Walz rally. We did see part of the roll call, though, with our own Jason Rae presiding. Each state had its own "walk-on music." Ours, of course, was Jump Around. And we had our own DJ! The place was truly rockin'. But because of the hours I spent there — from roughly 3:30 to about 9:30pm — I have also been unable to gather as much newsy information as usual for this edition of this newsletter. So short shrift today, I fear.

I don't usually include photos or graphics in these communications because they sometimes make accessing the emails more difficult. But I'm sending you this joyful one of Vice President Kamala Harris bringing the house down in Milwaukee last night:

For those of you who missed some or all of the great presentations last night, here are links to some of the best:

• Representative Jamie Raskin's charming and forceful presentation, about 7.5 minutes
• Representative Jasmine Crockett skewering the MAGAites with a big grin, about 10 minutes
• Michelle Obama who is decidedly like no other, 20 minutes
• the inimitable President Barack Obama, 35 minutes

There were a lot of newsworthy presentations but I also want to commend to you the brief remarks by Mesa, Arizona, Mayor John Giles, a self-confessed lifelong Republican. It's only a few seconds longer than two minutes.

Governor Tim Walz was a convention night's version of Where's Waldo. He was in Chicago one minute and in Milwaukee the next. Or so it seemed. His speech was nearly drowned out by the jubilent crowd a good deal of the time, but I did clearly here him say: "They [the GOP] left here riding high. Well, trust me, a hell of a lot can change in four weeks. You run a campaign based on fear, you’re going run into a little trouble when you run into a campaign that’s based on joy." You can find his entire talk at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's YouTube channel (12 minutes).

Every journalist and podcaster has a take on the Michelle and Barack show but one of the best that I have seen is David Kurtz's on Talking Points Memo. Kurtz includes a clip of President Obama's physical gestures that accompany his take-down of the Groper-in-Chief. It's not enough to read the words. You've got to see it!

Michelle Obama's speech was nothing short of superb but one line really stood out to me: Kamala Harris "understands that most of us will never be afforded the grace of failing forward. We will never benefit from the affirmative action of generational wealth." You can watch a brief clip of that central moment here.

Tonight, Governor Tim Walz will accept his nomination to be the next Vice President of the United States. Former President Bill Clinton, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg are also scheduled to speak Wednesday. Then the grande finale tomorrow night: Kamala Harris will accept the Democratic Party's nomination to be the next President of the United States. You can join other Milwaukee County Democrats at a watch party to close the momentous Democratic National Convention.

I'm going to end this paean to the Democratic Party and the Harris/Walz campaign with a a note about resources in the month since our great President Biden stepped back from the race and endorsed his Vice President as his successor. The sour grapes crowd is calling this change a coup. Absolute balderdash! We're calling it a switch. And since Harris began her sprint, the campaign has really switched on the fund-raising gas, apparently amassing about half a BILLION dollars: "U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris' election effort has raised around $500 million since she became the Democratic presidential candidate, sources told Reuters, an unprecedented money haul that reflects donor enthusiasm going into the Nov. 5 election" (Reuters, August 20, 2024).

We may have the big MO (momentum as some folks call it). But we still need to follow Michelle Obama's exhortation: DO SOMETHING! This coming weekend, August 24 and 25, is a vital Weekend of Action. You will find links to the closest canvass locations in the list below. Even if you can't do the walk and knock thing, you could drive people who can. So let's go win this thing!

So the primary election for partisan offices except for president (which was included in the April 2 election) is tomorrow, Tuesday, August 13. If you have not voted yet, or even if you have, please contact your network of family, friends, and co-workers to turn them out to vote. Usually this kind of summer primary is not well attended, but this year the August election features TWO constitutional amendments that if passed will cripple this state's government in its response to emergencies, slow the budgeting process, and promote gridlock and a standoff between the legislative and the executive branches of government.

Learn more about these ballot questions at our website or the more extensive page from the League of Women Voters. You can see a sample ballot for your specific location at MyVote.WI.gov. That site will also tell you what your polling place is. Since we have new maps, it would be wise to check as your voting districts and your polling place may have changed.

Make a plan to vote! Make a plan to VOTE NO on both ballot questions!! They can be easily overlooked since they are on the back side of the ballot at the very bottom.

This missive is not a substitute for a real newsletter, but it will have to do until Thursday, a day later than usual. I'll be able to bring you the results of the voting on the ballot questions in our North Shore and Ozaukee communities as well as other news in our local, state, and federal elections.

Meanwhile rejoice for a moment or two: the latest polls in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin show the Harris-Walz ticket ahead by 4 in each of those states. It's early days yet, so don't sit back thinking we have this thing in the bag. We don't. We'll need EVERYONE to play a part in electing Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

You can start by planning to attend Glenna Cose Brin's Political Engagement Party on Tuesday, August 20, and/or the Milwaukee County Democratic Party's Acceptance Speech Watch Party on Thursday, August 22, when Vice President Kamala Harris will take up the presidential candidate mantle and propel us on the way to victory. I hope that by the time I write this week's real newsletter, I will have more information and links to sign up for these two events. Until then, though, pencil them in your calendar.

And while you're making a note of some near-future events, add the in-person Grassroots North Shore event, What Future Do We Want? It's up to us!, on Sunday, September 8, at Maslowski Park, 2200 W Bender Rd, Glendale. News of the speakers and other information about the event will be coming soon.

For an uplifting piece, read Reed Galen's substack "Irrational" Exuberance. The subhead for the piece is "Happiness is a Good and Necessary Thing in Politics." Give yourself a five-minute treat. Then go to our 2024 Election Volunteer page to figure out how you can best help the cause.

It's Governor Tim Walz for Vice President! The news outlets are filled to overflowing with the announcement and with details about the man and his life story. Here's how Talking Points Memo's David Kurtz succinctly summed up the choice: "A former teacher and coach and longtime National Guardsman, Walz has not been a prominent figure on the national Democratic stage. He was not known to have presidential ambitions. But in the weeks since President Biden ended his re-election bid, Walz’s solid record as a progressive governor, his perceived appeal in the critical Blue Wall states, and his direct, folksy manner had catapulted him into the top rank of vice presidential contenders for Harris."

Here's the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel approach: "after Harris' announcement [Wisconsin Democrats] pointed to Walz's working-class background as a former high school teacher, his military service and his six terms in Congress as experience that could appeal to voters in a key swing state like Wisconsin."

A lot of other news has been relegated to the virtual back pages by the sudden burst of excitement surrounding the presidential campaign. So here's a short list of stories you might find newsworthy. In the Arizona fraudulent electors case, former Orange Julius attorney Jenna Ellis is now cooperating with prosecutors. You can see coverage and a video of her statement at Politico.

In a sign of how potentially violent and intimidating our elections seem to have become, Arizona's Maricopa County "public school district isn’t opening its schools to voters as polling sites." It's not clear from the article in the Washington Post (gifted to you) exactly how widespread this phenomenon is: "Heightened school safety protocols and sustained attacks on voting systems and the people who run them — largely by Trump and his supporters — have prompted school leaders across America in both red and blue states to close their doors to the democratic process, according to interviews with nearly 20 school district leaders, county officials, school safety officials and election experts."

Don the Con is scheduled to be sentenced on September 18. Roger Parloff, Senior Editor of Lawfare, has taken A Close Look at Trump’s Immunity Objections to His N.Y. Convictions. "With the filing of Donald Trump’s reply memorandum on Aug. 1, briefing is now complete on whether the former president’s 34 felony convictions, handed down by a Manhattan jury on May 30, can survive the U.S. Supreme Court’s July 1 presidential immunity ruling. New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan has pledged to rule on that question by Sept. 6 and, if he rules for the People, to then proceed to Trump’s sentencing on Sept. 18." Parloff recognizes just how fraught the territory Judge Merchan must cover and foresees the case traversing the trial and appellate courts in New York only to land yet again at the Supreme Court of the United States.

Before turning to more immediate and proximate matters, let's take a minute or two to poke the bear! The one RFK Jr. dumped in Central Park a decade ago. Unfortunately he posted his strange confession video on X(Twitter). But you really should hold your nose and go see it. He's telling this story to Roseanne Barr and some unnamed and unseen others, and they're all laughing it up. But it should not be funny. RFK recounts how he saw coverage of the bizarre events on the news, with "a mile of yellow tape, 20 cop cars and helicopters flying over it." So, the dead bear discovery involved an extensive public safety response. Ha ha?

The euphoria around our new Democratic ticket cannot blind us to the work we need to do in our own backyards. So here are some immediate ways for you to engage: On Saturday, August 10, and Sunday, August 11, we are volunteering with the Democratic Party to Get Out the Vote for next Tuesday's election. Even if you don't have a lot of contested races on your ballot, it is imperative that we all vote and VOTE NO on the two ballot questions you will find at the bottom of the second side or your ballot. In addition, we are knocking on as many doors as we can. So please pitch in. In general, you can find events near you by going to Mobilize, but here are some happening in the North Shore:

If you can't canvass, show up for a shift and offer to navigate and drive for a canvasser. It will make a huge difference.

As you know, Jodi Habush Sinykin is running to represent state Senate District 8. The district encompasses Assembly Districts 22, 23, and 24. And Democrats have candidates running in all three of those districts, too. Jodi's campaign is already up and running and she needs our support for the five canvasses she has scheduled in August. (These are in addition to canvasses organized by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.)

• August 7th @ 5:30 - Germantown
• August 9th @ 4:30 - Menomonee Falls
• August 14th @ 5:30 - Port Washington
• August 20th @ 5:30 - Menomonee Falls
• August 26th @ 5:30 - Mequon

If you have not seen Vice President Kamala Harris's first ad for her campaign for president, give yourself a brief treat, complements of The Guardian. The spot is called "We Choose Freedom." Beyoncé's song "Freedom" provides the musical accompaniment as Kamala Harris frames the election: "the freedom to get ahead; the freedom to be safe from gun violence; the freedom to make decisions about your own body." She defines herself as a prosecutor versus a felon. Most importantly, she is looking toward a hopeful, joyous future as opposed to the MAGA agenda taking us back to an age of illegal abortions and an era of manifest inequality before the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act became law. As she exclaimed in her speech in Indianapolis last week, “These extremists want to take us backward, but we are not going back.”

Here's another great Harris ad. Our fearless VP and presidential candidate calls Benedict Donald out for nixing the bipartisan border bill this past spring. Although she's only 10 days into this project, her campaign team is apparently in full swing. I don't usually recommend this but keep your eyes open for more of her campaign ads!

So, have you heard about "weird" as an epithet for The Big Lie-bowski and his Mini-Me JD? What do you think? Here's what Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo thinks. And here's a whole blog post (kinda crude) documenting just how weird the MAGA set are. It's a surprising way to define your opponents in a political race, but it seems to be catching on and, more to the point, working. An AP story explains how it came about and why it seems to work.

On the local scene, early in-person voting began yesterday, July 30. Generally, early voting takes place in your town, village, or city hall. If you have not requested an absentee ballot already, you should consider early in-person voting. Voting by absentee ballot or early in person has a significant upside: they're much more flexible ways to vote than planning to vote on Election Day. To see the early voting information for your community, visit our page Early Voting Information for August 13 Primary. You might also want to prepare for voting in this election by viewing a sample ballot and by reading up on the candidates. Our Elections 2024 provides the names of candidates and links to their online sites. And if you live in Glendale, Shorewood, or the part of the city in Senate District 4, you might want to review information about the two candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for SD4.

As those of us in Glendale and Shorewood know, Dora Drake has now been elected to Senate District 4 to fill out the term for that senate seat, vacant since February when Lena Taylor became a Milwaukee County Judge. Now as the incumbent, she is running in the August 13 primary to be the Democratic nominee for Senate District 4 on the November 5 ballot. You can find election information about Senator Drake and her opponent Representative LaKeshia Myers as well as other candidates on the August 13 ballot. Those of us in Assembly District 10 should also know that Grassroots North Shore enthusiastically endorses Senator Drake. So if you live in Glendale or Shorewood — or in Assembly Districts 10, 11, or 12 — you can vote for her again!

The 10 days or so since Vice President Harris became the presumptive nominee for president have been amazing and joyous. Filled with energy and enthusiasm. In the next week or so, we can carry her message of freedom and opportunity throughout our area. Here are some of the canvasses and other volunteer events you should really sign up for:

• High Traffic Canvassing in Glendale, Thursday August 1, 6:00 - 7:30pm. Stone Creek Coffe, 6969 N Port Washington Rd, Glendale
  
  
• Fox Point Volunteer Recruitment Phonebank, Thursday August 1, 7:00 - 8:30pm (repeats Thursday August 8) Address provided on sign-up.
  
  
• Weekday Canvassing in Fox Point Thursday August 1, 4:30 - 7:30pm (repeats on Friday August 2, Monday August 5, Tuesday August 6, and August 7 - 13 )
  
  
• Fox Point Canvass, Saturday August 3, 9:00am - 12:00pm and 12:00 - 3:00pm (repeats Sunday August 4, Saturday August 10 and Sunday August 11) Address provided on sign-up.
  
  
• Shorewood Canvassing, Saturday August 3, 9:00am - 12:00pm and 12:00 - 3:00pm, 94516 N Newhall St. (repeats Saturday August 10)
  
  
• Glendale Canvassing, Sunday August 4, 9:00am - 12:00pm and 12:00 - 3:00pm (repeats Saturday August 10 and Sunday August 11)
  
  
• Social / Relational Organizing Glendale & Fox Point, Tuesday, August 6, 6:00 - 7:30pm
  
  
• John Zarbano Meet and Greet, Tuesday August 6, 6:00 - 7:00pm, Cedarburg Library Community Room
  
  
• Get Out the Vote in Grafton and Cedarburg, Saturday August 10, 9:00am - 12:00pm and 12:00 - 3:00pm (repeats Sunday August 11), address upon sign-up
  
  
• Get Out the Vote in Port Washington, Saturday August 10, 9:00am - 12:00pm and 12:00 - 3:00pm (repeats Sunday August 11), address upon sign-up

As you know, Jodi Habush Sinykin is running to represent state Senate District 8. The district encompasses Assembly Districts 22, 23, and 24. And Democrats have candidates running in all three of those districts. Jodi's campaign is already up and running and she needs our support for the five canvasses she has scheduled in August. (These are in addition to canvasses organized by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.)

• August 7th @ 5:30 - Germantown
• August 9th @ 4:30 - Menomonee Falls
• August 14th @ 5:30 - Port Washington
• August 20th @ 5:30 - Menomonee Falls
• August 26th @ 5:30 - Mequon

It's great if you can canvass. But if you can't, you can really assist a canvasser by volunteering to drive the canvasser through the route. Because her district includes a large chunk of Ozaukee County — some of it very difficult to walk without a driver/navigator — and chunks of Washington and Waukesha counties — areas with which most of our canvassers are unfamiliar — having a driver and navigator makes knocking on doors more efficient. So please sign up for one or more of the Habush Sinykin events above.

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