Help Dick Skare WIN!
1st District Wisconsin Assembly
Blog
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Thought for the week
Posted Aug 04 at 5 PM
We cannot document where this actually came from so with trepitude we think the quote from President Obama's speach to the disabled veterans group on Tuesday was something like "If you want to go forward, you put your car in D. If you want to go backwards, you put your car in R."
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Money Really Matters!
Posted Aug 04 at 5 PM
Over and over, voter after voter, call after call, we are finding that when people feel they know Dick, they will vote for him. So... the campaign is contacting voters in every way possible with more than 65 active volunteers supporting Dick's personal efforts.
Each of us has a part to play in the campaign and for many of us, the most we are able to do is write a check to support everyone else's hard work. So far 248 people have contributed to help Dick win. Every single dollar helps! Some people are able to give the maximum $500, others only $5. Contribute a roll of stamps ($44), a printer cartridge ($24), food for volunteers ($30), a gas card, another phone line ($75), office rent for a month ($100)... it all helps.
Can you support the work of our volunteers and Dick himself with a contribution of $10? $25? $100? $250? or $500? On our website you can donate by clicking on the blue "CONTRIBUTE" button or you can send a check to PO Box 106, Sturgeon Bay or you can come into the office at 62 S. Third Ave.
We promise you a genuine, hand written "THANK YOU" note.
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Dick completes first round of doors in Sturgeon Bay
Posted Jul 28 at 2 PM
Dick has now knocked on doors in every Sturgeon Bay ward/ neighborhood. Not everyone was home; not everyone would answer their door; not everyone was supportive but Dick is fulfilling his commitment to take his common sense campaign to every neighborhood and township in the First Assembly District.
Campaign volunteers are helping by making phone calls, knocking on doors, mailing literature and entering information into the voter tracking data base.
All the work is targeted to making sure we have , at least, 50%+1 person voting for Dick on election day, Tuesday, November 2.
We are asking everyone who can help on election day to 1) vote by absentee ballot so you ensure that you vote and 2) let us know that you are available so we can beghin to build ellection day teams in every ward.
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A Huge THANK YOU to the Lawtons
Posted Jul 17 at 4 PM
We want to, in this way, publically thank Lt.Gov. Barbara and Cal Lawton for the wonderful dinner party they hosted last weekend. It could not have been more perfect thanks to their hospitality and the hard working staff of the Cookery including Disk's family of Carol, Courtney and Karin. Camryn and Allin made up the rest of the staff.
The hosts were welcoming, the weather gorgeous, the setting delightful, the conversation engaging, the food scrumptous and the candidate confident.... and we raised $3,850 for the campaign!
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We hope this continues....
Posted Jul 17 at 3 PM
Among frequent voters who know both Garey Bies and Dick, support for Dick is running 2 to 1.
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Dick's Camapign is growing every day
Posted Jul 17 at 3 PM
Achievements this past week: 1- We are on the ballot !!!!!! 2- We are one of the top producing campaign in NE Wisconsin in terms of volunteers and voters contacted 3- Ashley has 12 volunteers going door-to-door contacting voters (our most effective way of growing support) 4- 5 great volunteers are working on data entry to record responses from voters contacted at their door and by phone and 5- Coffess are scheduled in Sturgeon Bay, Little Sturgeon, Pierce Township and Kewaunee City.
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Welcome Ashley
Posted Jul 12 at 1 PM
There's a new staff person working on the Skare for Assembly campaign. Thanks to support from the Wisconsin Democratic Party and the Assembly Campaign, Ashley Viste, is worknig full time on field work and voter contact parts of the campaign.
Ashley grew up in Southern Door and then went on to UW-Madison where she graduated in June with a degree in political science. She's already hard and work and making sure we do everything possible to WIN!
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Dick on his way to Madison
Posted Jul 12 at 12 PM
We are told we have 208 "good" signatures already in Madison AND Dick is on his way there tomorrow with 156 more... OUTSTANDING! We made it! He will be on the ballot!
Thanks to lots of hard work by everyone in the office who made calls and signed people up and to field volunteers: Ryan, Dan, Sherri, Ron, Linda, Eileen, Glen, Francha, and Bryan.
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200+ 150 - that's our goal
Posted Jun 27 at 2 PM
We continue to get signatures on Dick's nomination papers... we've reached our minimum goal of 200 and now are pushing hard to get the other 150 we want to turn in to ensure the signatures will not get challenged.
Come to the office to sign and think about taking a sheet or two snf having your friends sign up to help Dick get on the ballot... and win!
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Parades and more parades + Dairy B'fast
Posted Jun 27 at 2 PM
It's the parade and event season. This week and next you can find Dick in Ellison Bay, Little Sturgeon, Sevastopol, Egg Harbor and Baileys Harbor.
Every where he goes he neds people with him collecting signatures and handing out stickers.
If you can help, please let us know!
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You CAN Make A Difference
Posted Jun 22 at 3 PM
People in every First District neighborhood are telling Dick that the First District needs new leadership in Madison! The Bies record has not helped (our Steering Committee said it stronger "has been an obstacle to") solve the problems our families, businesses and communities are facing. As much as Bies would like to, he cannot avoid responsibility for his record during Republican and Democratic administrations.
Just saying "No" does not create jobs, solve the funding crisis for our schools, guarantee basic health care for working people or keep special interest groups from "owning" the legislative process.
Please help send Dick to Madison to work in a positive way on these critical issues:
1- Come into the office (62 S. Third Ave., Sturgeon Bay) and sign his nominating papers to get him on the ballot.
2- Help him reach $25,000 in contributions by the June 30 reporting deadline by clicking on the "CONTRIBUTE" button on the Home Page." Any amount would be greatl appreciated...
Thank you!
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Petition Drive kicks off
Posted May 31 at 3 PM
WE NEED YOU! to stop by the Sturgeon Bay office (62 S. Third Ave.) and help us reach our goal of 350 signatures to officially get Dick on the November 2 ballot. While there, consider signing the Nomination Papers of each of the 8 Democratic candidates running for election. Their candidacies make you proud to be a Democrat! The signature period runs from June 1 - July 13.
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Lt.Gov. Lawton to host dinner benefit in her Door County home
Posted May 31 at 2 PM
With great thanks to LT. Gov. Barbara Lawton and her husband Cal, we are pleased to invite you to be one of 20 guests for dinner at their Door County home. Catered with locally grown specialties prepared by the Cookery Restaurant, the event is a benefit for the Skare for Assembly campaign to be held Saturday, July 10. Tickets are $200 per person. To R.S.V.P. please call campaign manager, Allin Walker at 920-493-2912.
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The Wisconsin Way
Posted May 11 at 5 PM
Dick continues to be impressed by the work done by The Wisconsin Way group and by their Blueprint for Change 2010. It seems to have gotten far less publicity than it deserves.
In general, it feels like exactly the broadbased kind of effort Dick would support and look to for ideas although it is pretty "grim" reading.
We would welcome a group of people willing to read it through, digest it and help shape its recommendations into campaign strategy.
Call Allin if you're interested 920-493-2912.
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Brain Trust to meet
Posted May 11 at 4 PM
Dick has an informal group of advisors that meets periodically to debate campaign strategy and tactics. They are scheduled to meet again in the next couple of weeks to share thoughts about the tone and direction of the campaign. Bies is taking credit for everything and blame for nothing so the conversation should be lively.
Interested in being invited? Call Allin to sign-up 920-493-2912.
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1,052 and counting
Posted Apr 26 at 12 PM
Thanks to the data entry work of Jim, Dick and Faith, the total number of peole who have contacted the campaign and now receive updates is 1,052 and growing.
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Can You Help in Brown County?
Posted Apr 12 at 6 PM
We are looking for help in our Brown County townships of Green Bay, Scott and Humboldt (East of UW-GB).
Please call Allin at 920-493-2912 if you live in that area or know someone who does who might be willing to help by holding a coffee or going door-to-door with Dick in their neighborhood..
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Will Democrats Stand Up and Be Counted?
Posted Mar 25 at 11 AM
The tv is fully covering the enthusiastic health care reform nay-sayers. What they are against is usually not even what has been passed, but they are enthusiastic and their enthusiasm has Democrats worried. The new health care legislation is far from perfect AND it accomplishes much of what we elected Obama and the Democratic majorities to do.
Polls continue to show general public suport for the reform legislation. Democratic fund raising around the country is ahead of projections. Local candidates like Dick are talking at people's front doors about how the legislation will concretely help families in the First District:
- closing the "donut hole" in prescription medication coverage
- making sure insurance is available for those that need it the most (people who are sick)
- covering preventive care that can help keep people well and out of the doctor's office or, especially, the emergency room
- making insurance available for most of the currently uninsured
Now the question is: Will middle class, main street Democrats continue working to support the candidates that are fighting for creating new job opportunities, growing the economy, cutting taxes for the middle-class, and protecting health care reform?
