Make Wisconsin a Leader Again

Rae’s opponent will be incumbent Herb Kohl, one of the richest of all U.S. Senators. Kohl’s Senate voting record shows his willingness to protect the wealth and privilege of the very rich and his willingness to put other people’s children in danger. In 2005, he voted to protect credit card companies by making it difficult for people to declare bankruptcy. He supported the billions of dollars given to oil companies and the nuclear industry in the energy bill. He helped pass enormous tax cuts for rich people like himself. And he continues to support the disastrous Iraq war.

Herb Kohl’s record is in sharp contrast to Wisconsin’s proud progressive tradition. It was Wisconsin Senator Bob LaFollette who decried “the selfish ambition and the cruel greed of a comparatively few men (in each government) who saw in…war an opportunity for profit and power for themselves, and who were wholly indifferent to the awful suffering they knew that war would bring to the masses.” We again need a Senator who will stand for peace and the needs of working people. Mr. Kohl won’t stand up for you, but Rae Vogeler will.

Rae is a candidate of the Wisconsin Green Party. She shares the Green Party’s basic values: grassroots democracy; social and economic justice; environmental protection and peace as the centerpiece of foreign policy.

The U.S. Senate is filled with rich men representing the corporations they own and the corporations that fund their campaigns. The parties in power refuse to raise, much less talk about, the issues that matter most to you.

Rae Vogeler, as Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, will not serve the needs of the powerful, but she will speak up for you. Help us make that happen.