By Milwaukee Courier Staff This week, Democratic candidate for US Senate Alex Lasry spent an afternoon touring Black and Latino-owned small businesses in Kenosha, following up on recent tours of Black-owned businesses in Milwaukee and Racine. Lasry took the opportunity to talk to the small business owners about their successful businesses, the challenges they face […]
Alex Lasry Lines Up Support from Key Black Leaders Ahead of Primary
By Milwaukee Courier Staff With the Democratic Primary for U.S. Senate quickly approaching, voters are making their final decision on who they will choose to challenge incumbent Republican Senator Ron Johnson this fall. As the race comes into its final stretch, candidates are releasing their slates of endorsements and making their case to voters across […]
Lasry Campaign Internal Poll Shows Primary Voters Believe Lasry Is Best Democrat To Beat Ron Johnson
By Milwaukee Courier Staff This week, Alex Lasry’s campaign for U.S. Senate released a new poll showing that a majority of primary voters in the 2022 Democratic Primary believe that Lasry is the best option to beat Ron Johnson in November. In a memo released by the campaign, the poll shows that 36% of primary […]
Ron Johnson Tried to Overthrow Our Democracy
By Alex Lasry This week, it was revealed that Wisconsin US Senator Ron Johnson committed his most egregious offense yet – he attempted to overthrow the government by delivering fake electoral information to the Vice President of the United States on January 6, 2021. This startling revelation was made by the United States House Select […]
It’s Time to Celebrate Juneteenth, No Thanks to Senator Ron Johnson
By Alex Lasry Americans across the country will be celebrating Juneteenth this year for the second year as an official federal holiday. The establishment of Juneteenth as a national holiday last year was a bright spot and the culmination of a long effort to get this done. But if it were up to Wisconsin Senator […]
Working Wisconsinites Deserve the Breaks that Ron Johnson Gives Corporations
By Alex Lasry Like many other Wisconsinites, I’m tired of seeing self-serving Ron Johnson give breaks to the wealthy few or massive corporations while he ignores the needs of working Wisconsinites. Johnson is actively trying to ship jobs out of Wisconsin and then blaming unions for the problems that he has helped create. The working […]
Ron Johnson and Republicans Want to Push an Extreme Agenda
By Alex Lasry This week we saw how dangerous the Republican agenda is for the future of our country. After years of warnings that reproductive rights were under assault due to Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell’s packing of the United States Supreme Court with ultra-conservative judicial activists, the leaked draft decision overturning Roe v. Wade […]
Why New Unionization Efforts Matter
By Alex Lasry The last 20 years have been tough for unions in Wisconsin. Almost every state saw a decline in unionized workforce over that time frame, but no state saw a bigger decline than Wisconsin. Wisconsin went from 17.8% of unionized workers in 2000, to 7.9% in 2021. Wisconsin’s drop was the largest in […]
Congratulations Mayor Cavalier Johnson
By Alex Lasry Milwaukee made history last Tuesday night by electing Cavalier Johnson mayor in a landslide victory, earning an impressive 72% of the vote. Being in the room at his victory party, I was struck by the broad coalition of support from all parts of the city that were present. The crowd was electric […]
It’s Time to Take Action to Lower Gas Prices and End our Reliance on Big Oil
By Alex Lasry We have all seen gas prices rise as a result of Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine. Because of Putin’s actions, there is less oil getting into the market and prices have risen as a result. The simple truth is that right now, the actions of a dictator on the other […]
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