Throughout most of Wisconsin’s history, residents have depended on counties, cities, villages and towns to deliver important services. We trusted locally elected representatives to make good decisions on our behalf.

Supreme Court Justice candidate Kelly has been clear that women’s reproductive health care should be controlled by politicians rather than by women with the advice of their doctors. Chris Walloch, executive director of A Better Wisconsin Together, has said “Dan Kelly has a long documented history of extremism on abortion.”

I’m sure you all know by now that Judge Janet Protasiewicz came out on top of the February 21 primary for the Supreme Court, exceeding almost every expectation. Right here in St.Croix County, the combined votes for the two progressive candidates won almost 51% of the vote compared to the conservative candidates with 49%. That’s the first time St. Croix County has gone blue since the 1990s.

How do we win elections? We do it one vote at a time! Not everyone pays attention to politics like some of us, especially in non-presidential elections like the Supreme Court race just ahead with a primary on February 21 followed by the general election on April 4.