This year is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reset Wisconsin’s State Legislature, flip a chamber, and open a path to a blue trifecta—because, after years of struggle, democracy defeated the gerrymander. Here’s Maddow on that win.
Today in the WisDems Starting Lineup, let’s hear it for Assembly District 91 representative Jodi Emerson!
Jodi is a veteran Assemblymember—she has served the 91st with distinction since 2019. Under new maps, her seat’s competitive. Let’s reelect her.
Assembly District 91 contains eastern Eau Claire County and part of Chippewa County. The redrawn maps expanded the geographical area of this district, turning it from solid D to leaning D—just 54.8% Democratic. So it’s crucial that we re-elect Jodi Emerson to the 91st.
Jodi’s roots in the Chippewa Valley run deep. Her grandfather was a local farmer and her father worked at the Uniroyal tire plant until it closed. She and her husband raised their two kids there and still live in the first house they bought in 1996. Read more about Jodi Emerson here.
Among Jodi’s top priorities: reproductive freedom, accessible health care, affordable housing & child care, restoring funding for public education, giving tax relief to small businesses, & protecting our environment. To help Jodi’s campaign, chip in here.
If Rep. Emerson wins re-election, the chance for a Democratic assembly majority this year leaps up—and so too does the path to a statewide law protecting the reproductive freedom of Wisconsinites.
Jodi takes on GOP members of the State Legislature when they harm Wisconsinites. Outside a closed Eau Claire hospital, she called out Republicans in the Joint Finance Committee for sitting on federal funds earmarked for keeping rural hospitals open.
Jodi Emerson is a member of the Governor’s Council on Migrant Labor, Wisconsin Anti-Human Trafficking Consortium, a board member for the WI Women’s Council, and serves on a host of committees. Read more on Jodi’s official Assemblymember page.
Jodi’s opponent, Republican Michele Magadance Skinner, announced her candidacy after a different GOP candidate dropped out to run in another district. If Skinner wins, that’s another seat in GOP hands, and one less chance to remove Robin Vos as Assembly speaker.
With a slightly redder 91st after redrawn maps, Jodi Emerson will need every Democratic vote to keep the seat. Let’s help reelect Jodi Emerson to Assembly District 91. Chip in here.
In Wisconsin this year, we’ve got Dems in 97 out of the 99 Assembly races and all 16 of the Senate races. We support them all. The GOP? Just 84/99 and 11/16.
Our Starting Lineup races are the closest. Wins would end the GOP Assembly majority & break the Senate supermajority.
You can read about the full Starting Lineup here.
