Fundraiser for Dana Schultz

Time: 8:00pm-?

Location: Y-Not 3 1854 E. Kenilworth Ave. Milwaukee, WI

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This event is really exciting for us for several reasons:

I have been friends with Dana for three years. In that time I have always respected her commitment to progressive action for worker rights at UWM and in Milwaukee that are important issues to me and the MGAA.

As students and employees of this University, we in the MGAA need elected leaders who understand the struggles we face to further our own academic work - a task we accomplish while instructing 24,000 undergraduates at the 2nd largest univeristy in the state. Dana gets it. She is a former TA and union member at UWM, and understands directly the contributions graduate workers make to the status of the university.

Dana is from a small farming community in the Northwoods and went to UWM on a basketball scholarship for her undergraduate degree, going on to be a TA for Political Science as she earned her Masters.

After completing her education, she worked with 9to5 National Organziation for Working Women.  There she helped build a coaltion (which includes the MGAA) for the Milwaukee Paid Sick Day campaign, which could help thousands of working women and men who earn modest wages stay healthy and avoid contracting and spreading diseases like H1N1 to their families. Too many employees today must put their family's and the public's health at risk when they are forced to work sick. Dana's dedication to issues like this is inspiring to us and many others.

Finally, I would like to point out that Dana is running in her hometown of Athens, WI for the 87th Assmbly District. This is a rural area where the largest city (Medford) has 4,400 people. Dana understands rural issues because she works on her family farm and is extremely concerned about the pressures put on small farmers. In the last year, dairy farmers have seen their incomes drop by almost 40%. Still, she combines this with her experience in the academic workforce and her policy activism on urban issues. A legislator who has a progressive perspective on urban and rural issues is a rarity anywhere, and something we all really need in Wisconsin.

Friday's party is a sendoff for Dana. Please join us and support her campaign