Burkee and Walz provide hope for the 5th Congressional District
If you haven’t already heard, there is a historic campaign for Congress being launched in the Firth Congressional District of Wisconsin. Two professors are launching a joint campaign for Congress - to unseat the thirty year incumbent, James Sensenbrenner.
Many people have made this out to be a political or publicity stunt, but I believe it is about time people from opposing views come together to reach a common goal. Please support this amazing initiative by visiting their website, learning more and donating.
Read more:
JS Online: House candidates officially kick off unique joint campaign
Fox 6 Milwaukee: Republican, Democrat Running Together For Same Congressional Seat
New York Times - Rare Bipartisan Tag Team Takes on Wisconsin House Vetran
August 22nd, 2007 at 4:09 pm
I knew Walz was a Democrat when I had him in Poli-Sci freshman year. Ha! But it did take nearly 10 years to confirm that.
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:08 am
What I like is that he is a conservative Democrat.
I’d like to see Republican and Democrat change from being conservative and liberal on social issues and actually focus on the government style that the groups were founded upon. Instead, Republican has become synonymous with Christian and Democrat with non-Christian.
The issues that surround our nation are deeper than just religion, and we as a nation need to begin recognizing that the deeper issues, the environment, health care, immigration reform, the national debt, foreign policy…
We need to diversify the options that the American people have so it is greater than the lesser of two evils. We need at least a third and fourth party…