Even though we had a bunch of snow Sunday (April 14 and this is the weather we get?), spring is really going to be here soon. The trees in my backyard are counting on it. And so should you!

Ah spring. That means outdoor actions are going to be pleasant again. So dress for the weather but plan to join Voces de la Frontera for a "Day Without Latinx and Immigrants" in Madison on Wednesday, May 1.

This year the organization is focusing on restoring the opportunity for undocumented immigrants and many poor citizens to obtain a Wisconsin drivers license. The Executive Director of Voces, Christine Neumann-Ortiz, has written a compelling argument supporting the ability of those populations to obtain licenses. According to Neumann-Ortiz, those who are unable to obtain a license risk "los[ing] the ability to get to jobs located far from segregated neighborhoods, locking them into poverty, unemployment and the stigma of a criminal record. This problem affects around 300,000 people, disproportionately Black and Latinx." If an undocumented immigrant is caught driving without a license, he/she risks deportation. Governor Evers's budget proposal includes "measures to restore driver licenses for immigrant Wisconsinites." In a call to action, Christine Neumann-Ortiz asks you to help in two ways:

• Call Senator Alberta Darling, Chair of the Joint Finance Committee, representing much of the North Shore, tell her that you support restoring access to driver licenses for undocumented people and low-income U.S. citizens at (608) 266-5830.
• March with us on a "Day Without Latinxs & Immigrants" on May 1st, 11am at the State Capitol in Madison.

You might also donate something to help the cause.

Read the full article on our webiste.

You should also sign up for our terrific program on housing segregation in Milwaukee, featuring Reggie Jackson, Head Griot of America's Black Holocaust Museum. Reggie will describe how we got to be so segregated and how we can work to change it. The event will take place on Sunday, May 5, at Plymouth Church (2717 N Hampshire St, Milwaukee) with the doors opening at 2:30 and the program beginning at 3:00. As is our custom, we will serve light refreshments so please RSVP. Reggie's presentations are not to be missed!

And though it's a bit of a haul and a whole day of interesting yet tedious testimony, I urge you to go to the Joint Finance Committee hearing in Green Bay on Wednesday, April 24. The hearing begins at 10am but if you want to testify — AND YOU DO — you need to get there early so that you can get a speaking slot at a reasonable time. Although there are many, many worthy issues to address to the committee, Grassroots North Shore is particularly focused on Fair Maps. You can learn more about the coalition of Wisconsin organizations that support this issue on the Fair Elections Project website. Also, it will pay to carpool. To make that easier for people, we ask that you sign up on our website so we can help coordinate. As a bonus, I will send you some ideas for your testimony and some tips for making the day as pleasant as possible.

We will also be hosting some really easy postcard writing events at our office over the next few weeks. I will post dates and times in the near future and announce them in a special email for that purpose or in the next iteration of the GRNS newsletter, whichever comes first. The postcards already have the Fair Maps message printed on them. All you need to do is add the name and addresses of the recipients. We are asking people to fill out cards to the 16 members of the Joint Finance Committee plus their own Assembly and Senate members, a total of 18 cards. We will have everything you need for this action: postcards, pens, stamps, and names and addresses. Anyway, stay tuned for specifics!

The statewide election for Supreme Court Justice was a blow to Democrats and progressives who thought the election of Dems to all five constitutional offices last November meant WI had turned a corner. But what we should learn from our defeat is rather uplifting. The Democratic Party of Wisconsin reported that there were 40,000 more votes for Lisa Neubauer this year than for Rebecca Dallet last year. And that means that we did well at turning out our base. A picture of the turnout in Milwaukee County shows that our North Shore communities also performed strongly as far as turnout went. Grassroots North Shore sent more than 1100 postcards reminding our supporters to vote for Lisa Neubauer and we supported both canvassing and phone calls in Brown Deer and Whitefish Bay. Our efforts clearly paid off.

But turnout doesn't tell all we need to know about how the election went. It appears that the split between Neubauer and Hagedorn mattered a lot. Although turnout was higher in this election than in last year's, voters in Milwaukee County voted more heavily for Hagedorn in 2019 than they had for Screnock in 2018. And that difference in percent of the vote "effectively doomed [Neubauer's] statewide chances." Apparently, the ads attacking Hagedorn's homophobia were taken as attacks on his Christian faith. And that brought religious voters out in droves. Let that be a lesson to us!

Our loss should renew our determination to win elsewhere, on other issues we care deeply about. Yet the truth is we will never win on more humane issues like reducing rates of incarceration or restoring access to drivers licenses for immigrants and low income populations unless we capture more of the legislature. A valuable first step in doing that is showing up in large numbers at the Joint Finance Committee hearings in Oak Creek on April 10 and in Green Bay on April 24 to support Governor Evers' inclusion of funds for Fair Maps. The links will take you to our RSVP pages. We can help with ideas for testimony if you want to speak at one or both hearings. But you can also serve by simply standing to support those who are testifying on the subject of Fair Maps. You can also take these steps:

• Watch a video that explains how partisan gerrymandering has played out in Wisconsin.
• Email comments to the Joint Finance Committee.
• Call your member of the State Assembly and State Senate and lobby for Fair Maps. You can look up their names and contact information online. You can find some ideas for talking about the issue of Fair Maps and the budget bill on our website.

In other noteworthy events held by Grassroots North Shore supporters, Shirley Horowitz and Martha Pincus are holding a house party from 4-5:30pm on Sunday, April 14, to benefit Voces de la Frontera and the organization's effort to restore drivers licenses to those who cannot now obtain them. You can find more information in our events list below.

Meanwhile, save the date for the next Grassroots North Shore forum on why Milwaukee has the most segregated housing in the country. Reggie Jackson, Head Griot of the Black Holocaust Museum, will talk about who perpetuates this segregation and what we can do to change it. The forum will take place on Sunday, May 5, at Plymouth Church, 2717 E. Hampshire St., Milwaukee. The event is free and open to the public. GRNS volunteers will serve light refreshments so please RSVP so they know how many to plan for.

If you're down or disgusted by the Barr interpretation of the Mueller report, the best thing to do is work with Grassroots North Shore to support Judge Lisa Neubauer and WIN the Wisconsin Supreme Court election on April 2. Early voting ends on Friday, March 29. You can find info about early voting in our North Shore communities on our site.

We need people to canvass and call potential voters and we need people to write postcards, both supporting Judge Neubauer's election and urging the Joint Finance Committee and other legislators to fund the nonpartisan redistricting proposal Governor Evers recently sent to the legislature. We believe there will be public hearings on April 5 in Janesville, on April 11 in the Milwaukee area, on April 15 in River Falls, and on April 24 in Green Bay. We will be working with the Fair Maps Coalition to attend as many of these hearings as we can, to line up people to speak to the issue, and to send postcards to make the point to the members of that committee and to our own representatives in the Assembly and the Senate. We'll have sign up sheets for the hearings soon — I will send an action item in the next few days so you can participate if possible (we will also arrange some ride sharing opportunities). So be sure to look for that.

In the meantime, we're starting with sending out postcards to legislators. You can sign up below for the first four of those opportunities. And in case you don't know, the US Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in two other gerrymandering cases today — one from Maryland (with the Republicans as the plaintiffs) and one from North Carolina (with the Democrats as the plaintiffs). Our own Whitford case will be heard again in July and will likely end up back at the US Supreme Court during the 2019-2020 term. On the two cases being heard today, we expect a decision by the end of June.

GRNS wants to pull its weight for the upcoming election and for the nonpartisan redistricting plan. But we need your help! We can't always affect what happens in our national politics, but we can have an important, even a decisive, impact on our state. Give us a couple of hours of your time, and we will help turn this state around. Here are the events we have scheduled:

• Canvassing
  • Tuesday, March 26, from 2-4pm, starting at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)
  • Wednesday, March 27, from 3:30-6pm, starting at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)
  • Saturday, March 30, from 2-5pm, starting at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)
  • Sunday, March 31, from 12-3pm, starting at Shirley Horowitz's house (4845 N Newhall St., WFB)
  • Monday, April 1, from 4:30-7:30pm, starting at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)
  • Monday April 1, from 5-7pm, starting at Shirley Horowitz's house (4845 N Newhall St., WFB)
• Phoning (please bring your own fully-charged cell phone)
  • Tuesday, March 26, from 2-4pm, starting at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)
  • Wednesday, March 27, from 3:30-6pm, starting at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)
  • Saturday, March 30, from 2-5pm, starting at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)
  • Sunday, March 31, from 12-3pm, starting at Shirley Horowitz's house (4845 N Newhall St., WFB)
  • Monday, April 1, from 4:30-7:30pm, starting at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)
  • Monday April 1, from 5-7pm, starting at Shirley Horowitz's house (4845 N Newhall St., WFB)
• Writing Postcards to Support Judge Neubauer
  • Tuesday, March 26, from 2-4pm, starting at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)
  • Wednesday, March 27, from 3:30-6pm, starting at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)
• Writing Postcards to Lobby the Joint Finance Committee
  • Tuesday, March 26, from 2-4pm, at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)
  • Wednesday, March 27, from 3:30-6pm, at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)
  • Saturday, March 30, from 2-5pm, at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)
  • Monday, April 1, from 4:30-7:30pm, at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)

Now is the time to come to the aid of the state of Wisconsin! Specifically the lowest turnout election of our various election cycles: the spring 2019 nonpartisan election featuring only one statewide race. Election Day is Tuesday, April 2. Grassroots North Shore is providing a host of opportunities to help boost turnout in the North Shore. Please sign up for at least one!

From most-needed to also helpful, here they are:

• Canvassing
  • Thursday, March 21, from 5-7pm, starting at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)
  • Sunday, March 24, from 12-3pm, starting at our Shirley Horowitz's house (4845 N Newhall St., WFB)
  • Tuesday, March 26, from 2-4pm, starting at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)
  • Saturday, March 30, from 2-5pm, starting at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)
  • Sunday, March 31, from 12-3pm, starting at our Shirley Horowitz's house (4845 N Newhall St., WFB)
  • Monday, April 1, from 4:30-7:30pm, starting at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)
  • Monday April 1, from 5-7pm, starting at our Shirley Horowitz's house (4845 N Newhall St., WFB)
• Phoning (please bring your own fully-charged cell phone)
  • Thursday, March 21, from 5-7pm, starting at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)
  • Sunday, March 24, from 12-3pm, starting at our Shirley Horowitz's house (4845 N Newhall St., WFB)
  • Tuesday, March 26, from 2-4pm, starting at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)
  • Saturday, March 30, from 2-5pm, starting at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)
  • Sunday, March 31, from 12-3pm, starting at our Shirley Horowitz's house (4845 N Newhall St., WFB)
  • Monday, April 1, from 4:30-7:30pm, starting at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)
  • Monday April 1, from 5-7pm, starting at our Shirley Horowitz's house (4845 N Newhall St., WFB)
• Writing Postcards
  • Thursday, March 21, from 5-7pm, starting at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)
  • Tuesday, March 26, from 2-4pm, starting at our Brown Deer office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116)

We have oodles of Neubauer yard signs we are giving away. So come engage in an election activity and get a free sign or two! Or just stop in when the office is staffed to get yours. All signs must go before Tuesday, April 2: Election Day! Here's when you can pick up signs from our office (5600 W Brown Deer Rd, Suite 116):

• Wednesday, March 20, 4:00 to 6:00pm
• Thursday, March 21, 11:30am to 1:30pm and 5:00 to 7:00pm
• Monday, March 25, 10:00am to 12:00 Noon
• Tuesday, March 26, 2:00 to 5:00pm
• Saturday, March 30, 2:00 to 5:00pm

Speaking of which, early voting has begun all over the state. My husband and I voted yesterday in Glendale so that we could fully participate in getting others out to the polls before and on election day. You can too — and you should. You can visit our Early Voting Information page for a link to the municipality where you live to get further information about when and where to go.

I know everything we do is important. But elections, as we should all realize by now, have pretty serious consequences. We need to make sure we elect really good people, up and down the ballot. Otherwise, we risk disappointment, if not disaster. Grassroots North Shore has endorsed Lisa Neubauer for WI Supreme Court. There are too many county, city, and school board elections in our area for our organization to be tracking all of them. But you can find out what's on your specific ballot at MyVote and read up on your local candidates before you vote. I urge you to be informed. And I urge you to vote.

Grassroots North Shore has endorsed Lisa Neubauer, Chief Judge of the Appeals Court, for a seat on the WI Supreme Court. She will be a fair, independent jurist with the kind of temperament we need on our highest state court. To learn more about her qualifications, visit our Endorsement page. The election will be held on Tuesday, April 2, and we need every supporter of Grassroots North Shore to vote! (That means YOU, dear reader.) You can vote early in person in your community. See our Early Voting page for more information.

GRNS will be having a number of canvassing, phoning, and postcard-writing events ahead of the April 2 election to help get out the vote for Neubauer. And we could use your help. Here are the dates with links for you to sign up (just tell us what you want to do when you come):

• Saturday, March 2, 2-4 pm
• Saturday, March 9, 2-4 pm
• Saturday, March 12, 6:30-8 pm at the home of Martha Pincus

We will have additional canvassing, phoning, and postcard writing events posted soon. Stay tuned.

And on a final note, I want to bring to your attention a notice being circulated by the Progressive Caucus of the Wisconsin Democratic Party. A party stalwart and state legislator has suffered a devastating blow and needs everyone's help to rebuild. Please read the call for action and give what you can.

Losing everything, is hard enough, when the weather is warm and the sun is shinning, but it is cold and Kathleen and Doug lost everything, including their IDs. They made it out with the shoes on their feet and the clothes on their back. Our DNC Rep. Andrew Werthmann, has started a fund for our Senator, to help her through this horrible ordeal. Pleas find compassion and help by donating and/or passing the word on. If you are able, I implore you to give a small dollar amount to help Kathleen, because she has always been there for us!

DONATE TO HELP KATHLEEN

YOU CAN ALSO MAIL A DONATION TO:
Andrew Werthmann
1012 Chauncey St.
Eau Claire, WI 54701

Have you heard? The Democratic National Convention in 2020 will be held in Milwaukee! I'm so excited that the 46th President will be chosen here. In our fair city. There will no doubt be oodles of opportunity for volunteers to help with the convention. So keep summer 2020 open!

Meanwhile, we have a state to run. So you'll want to come to our St. Patrick's Day program at the Ovation Sarah Chudnow facilty (10995 Market St, Mequon): Beyond the Budget: Our Wisconsin Priorites. We'll hear from Representatives Bowen, Brostoff, and Goyke. Plus Judge Lisa Neubauer, our endorsed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court, will speak and give us a chance to talk to her.

And a final reminder about the 2019 election. Early voting in most communities begins March 18. You can find more information about your community's early voting schedule on our website page. We have posted hours and locations for most of our North Shore cities, villages, and towns. Plus there's a link to each one's website so you can follow up if our information is incomplete.

Election day is Tuesday, April 2. This will be a low turnout affair. So your progressive vote can really make a difference! Lots of communities have races for school boards. Grassroots North Shore does not track all of these races (there are just too many), but YOU should. And you should vote. Every time, in every election!

For that upcoming election, Grassroots North Shore has chosen not to endorse either candidate in the race for Milwaukee Milwaukee County Circuit Court, Branch 40. Instead the Endorsements Committe has issued the following statement.

Grassroots North Shore is making great headway on informing voters about the importance of the upcoming April 2 election for Wisconsin Supreme Court. By the time the election rolls around, we will have sent out more than 1100 postcards and made hundreds of phone calls. We're gearing up to do some canvassing, too, both for this election (the weather will break sometime soon, won't it?) and to get a running start on the madness that will be the 2020 cycle of elections — when there will once again be FOUR elections! But we will need everyone's help to reach our lofty goals.

Here's what we have lined up right now:

We wil provide additional opportunities soon. So stay tuned.

You can find some (still incomplete!) early voting info on our web page devoted to that topic and our endorsement of Chief Judge Lisa Neubauer for the Wisconsin Supreme Court on our Endorsements page. You can find some information about her and her approach to the job of judge there. But you'll find more information on her web page and from this wonderful video introduction to her. I hope you'll take the time to read about her and watch her intro.

We are also hosting a not-to-be-missed program — featuring Representatives David Bowen, Jonathan Brostoff, and Evan Goyke — "Beyond the Budget: Our Wisconsin Priorities" on Sunday, March 17 from 3-5pm (doors open at 2:30) at Ovation Sarah Chudnow (10995 Market St, Mequon, WI 53092). Chief Judge Lisa Neubauer will also be on hand to say a few words and take questions about her candidacy. We hope you will come. Please RSVP.

And in our weekly peek at some national news you may have missed with all the hoopla around the Michael Cohen bombshells and the failed summit with North Korea, Pat Slutske has written up an important US Supreme Court decision for us:

Is this the winter of our discontent, or what? I don't know about your place, but ours is piled high with frozen snow wherever you look and I hear more is on the way. But bad weather doesn't stop intrepid North Shore progressives from taking action! Below you'll find a healthy list of things you can do over the next couple of weeks.

On the Grassroots North Shore agenda, we have a number of opportunities coming up. We should have Senate and Assembly bill numbers by the time Governor Evers holds his budget address (Thursday, February 28, at 6pm). That means it's time to start lobbying your representatives in Madison to hold hearings and to pass these bills. We're holding a postcard and phone banking party for just that purpose on Saturday, March 2, from 2-4 pm. Bring your cell phone and join the fun. All you need to do is RSVP and show up. We'll have everything you need: stamped postcards, a way to look up contact info for your reps, and addresses to remind left-minded North Shore voters that there's a vital election coming up on April 2 (with early voting generally starting two weeks ahead of that date — see our Early Voting Info page for more detail).

There will be more opportunities to write postcards, phone voters (and Wisconsin legislators) and canvass for Lisa Neubauer all during March. I'll have pages to RSVP for those events on our calendar.

We have also rescheduled the informational event we had to cancel on account of this crazy weather in January. We're holding our Beyond the Budget meeting with Representatives Jonathan Brostoff, David Bowen, and Evan Goyke on Sunday, March 17, from 2:30-5pm, at the Ovation Sarah Chudnow community. You can RSVP online or on our Facebook page.

Judge Lisa Neubauer will also be at this event to speak about why she is running to replace Justice Shirley Abrahamson on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Now that we have progressive Democrats in all five constitutional offices, we need a Supreme Court that will cease rubber-stamping the radical conservative agenda the Walker administration promoted. Judge Neubauer's opponent in this race is not just a hard-right judge. He has founded a school that allows the firing of teachers for being gay and the expulsion of students if they or their parents are gay. In recent years, he has received more than $3,000 for speeches to the Alliance Defending Freedom — which the Southern Poverty Law Center labels a hate group — that has supported criminalizing sodomy and sterilizing transgender people. Unlike her opponent, Judge Neubauer has a long and distinguished career as a thoughtful, fair, and impartial jurist. She has earned the endorsement of a wide range of law enforcement and legal professionals as well as an endorsement from Grassroots North Shore. I hope you will join us on March 17 to meet Judge Neubauer and hear her views.

Grassroots North Shore has endorsed Lisa Neubauer, Chief Judge of the Appeals Court, for a seat on the WI Supreme Court. She will be a fair, independent jurist with the kind of temperament we need on our highest state court. To learn more about her qualifications, visit our Endorsement page. The election will be held on Tuesday, April 2, and we need every supporter of Grassroots North Shore to vote! (That means YOU, dear reader.) You can vote early in person in your community. See our Early Voting page for more information.

GRNS will be having a number of canvassing, phoning, and postcard-writing events ahead of the April 2 election to help get out the vote for Neubauer. And we could use your help. Here are the dates with links for you to sign up (just tell us what you want to do when you come):

• Saturday, March 2, 2-4 pm
• Saturday, March 9, 2-4 pm
• Saturday, March 12, 6:30-8 pm at the home of Martha Pincus

We will have additional canvassing, phoning, and postcard writing events posted soon. Stay tuned.

And on a final note, I want to bring to your attention a notice being circulated by the Progressive Caucus of the Wisconsin Democratic Party. A party stalwart and state legislator has suffered a devastating blow and needs everyone's help to rebuild. Please read the call for action and give what you can.

Losing everything, is hard enough, when the weather is warm and the sun is shinning, but it is cold and Kathleen and Doug lost everything, including their IDs. They made it out with the shoes on their feet and the clothes on their back. Our DNC Rep. Andrew Werthmann, has started a fund for our Senator, to help her through this horrible ordeal. Pleas find compassion and help by donating and/or passing the word on. If you are able, I implore you to give a small dollar amount to help Kathleen, because she has always been there for us!

DONATE TO HELP KATHLEEN

YOU CAN ALSO MAIL A DONATION TO:
Andrew Werthmann
1012 Chauncey St.
Eau Claire, WI 54701

Just in case you hadn't heard: The Foxconn deal is expensive (about $4 billion), constantly changing, and a scam. A real con. How do we know? Just look at the news from late June 2018, when the company announced it was reneging on a plan to build a HUGE factory (fab10) to build HUGE flat screens and would instead build a less cutting-edge plant (fab6) that would manufacture much smaller flat screens for tvs and hand-held devices (see (see jsonline.com). That was the operative word for a few months. At which point the company acknowledged that "the project was being 'adjusted' in response to changing global economics" (Wisconsin State Journal). That instead of a factory, it would largely be creating an "R & D hub" that would employ mostly engineers and researchers rather than the blue-collar workers it had originally promised.

The changing stories garnered national news largely, I think, because our *resident got involved and appeared at the groundbreaking ceremony (see USA Today on June 28, 2018). But there was so much blowback that tRump had to cajole the company into reversing itself. So on February 1, Foxconn announced that "it is returning to its plan to make flat screen panels at a new plant in Wisconsin following an appeal from President Donald Trump" (CNN.com). Still a spokeswoman for the company would not or could not say whether the company was offered any additional incentives or inducements to change its mind, "how the decision affects the mix of work to be done on the site, or how many of the hired workers would be involved in manufacturing. She also could not say how many employees would be tech workers and engineers doing research and development" (CNN.com).

The whole saga is a sad tale of the sort that Foxconn has engaged in with other entities, including another US state: a prescient June 2017 article in Market Watch is headlined "Foxconn’s history of broken promises casts a shadow on Wisconsin news". An article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wonders "Wisconsin gave Foxconn a rich subsidy package. Did we overpay? Some experts say we did" (Februaury 2, 2019). Although much of the $4 billion has yet to be "earned" by the company, Racine County has already spent large amonts of largely borrowed moner acquiring property, building roads, and providing sewers ("Fact check: Taxpayers have already spent money on Foxconn"). The AP story also notes that state taxpayers could be on the hook for a major portion of the funds localities spend.

It's hard to see how Wisconsin wins through this deal and even harder, after the GOP rammed through its bills hamstringing Governor Evers in the lame-duck session, how the state extricates itself from this con.

Nevertheless Grassroots North Shore will carry on with its Mid-Winter Warmup on Sunday, February 10! Hot sandwiches will be served. You are invited to bring a side, salad or dessert. Suggestions: your Specialty Side or Salad (complementary to hot sandwiches. Please limit to servings of 8 - 12) OR Home Baked Cookies or Bars (1 - 2 dozen). (All items are to be plated and ready to serve. (If you have questions, please email [email protected]). The event is free and open to the public (though only GRNS members can vote on the slate of candidates to sit on the steering committee for the next two years). We have a lot to celebrate and a lot to do to get ready for the 2020 election. Join us. Please RSVP.