All right,
first give me an update, how are
things rolling?
Oh yeah!
Yeah, but I'm still looking at you,
right? Cool.
So how are things been going?
We haven't touched base since
December. We're a couple months in.
How does it feel?
The campaign trail has been
wonderful, but there are a lot
of scary things happening right now,
so it's been good
to have conversations with folks,
but also really difficult to hear
some of the stories and the fears.
So as you're going along,
it's interesting here at this kind
of event because how much of what
your campaign has kind of dubbed it
with a lot of the things happening
around the world.
Yes, we know that
community keeps communities safe.
And to see neighbors taking care of
neighbors, organizing, happening
neighbor by neighbor, block by
block, we are
an organizing and community-powered
campaign.
So events like this, community
actions with support for
mutual aid efforts,
this is what I hope more politicians
will start doing.
It doesn't seem like a focus-driven
type, you know, paid analysis
type, but that's not what they're
going to be telling you to do,
right? No-
No, I'm not great with
talking points.
I would really like to be more on
the ground, learning from people
who are taking care of their
communities, discussing
strategies, and figuring out
how best to use the platform that
we've grown with the campaign to
help folks with their mutual aid
actions.
So in the stark reality of the
campaign, does that mean you may fly
under the radar of some people in
the speaking talking class, the
talking head class?
Maybe, but for
me, seeing how so many
people have been great ambassadors
for our campaign, whether they
are bringing their parents to our
events, or yesterday we had
a high schooler from Clear Lake
join us in
River Falls to talk about
how he's trying to talk to his
parents.
I mean, I think being
a grassroots campaign means
that I'm on the ground with the
people.
Whether, if that means I'm flying
under the radar of some of the Dem
establishment, okay.
But I think they're also starting to
realize that our campaign
is growing.
Talk to me a little bit about the
goal of this event here.
We are raising funds for
driftless mutual aid.
We're collecting non-perishables,
toiletries,
diapers, baby formula to make
sure they get out to local pantries
or to organizers
who are bringing supplies directly
to folks who may be struggling
or scared to leave their homes right
now.
And one of the things that I'm
wondering about is the Supreme Court
race that's going on right now.
Is there a crossover?
Like, do people talk to you about
Chris Taylor, about the race coming
up? Or is that something you bring
up? Or how does that happen?
Honestly, I think what's going
on in Minnesota, what might
be going on with AI data centers,
some of the big things that are
impacting community are more top
of mind.
We are starting to see canvassers
going out for Chris Taylor, which is
great, but especially
here in the western part of the
state, as I've talked to folks,
it's what's happening in our
neighbor state that
a lot more people are concerned
about.
When you talk about canvassers that
it's interesting is one of the
questions I have about is whether
The Supreme Court race will be kind
of a test ground for get out the
boat or you know You can do two
things at once and we're going out
like hey Yeah, I'm
running for governor first.
We have this like do those kind of
naturally work together
Oh absolutely, that it's
so important to get Chris
Taylor elected and to
start thinking about competitive
state legislative races.
I always remind folks that the
action item has to be look
at some of these districts that are
going to be competitive.
If you got friends, families,
foes or even exes who are in those
areas, get them out to pay attention
to the down-ballot races.
It's never too early to start
thinking about that.
Not at all. We're going to have some
great candidates come out to
help us win back the trifecta.
Well, that would be key to getting
what you want to have fast, because
that's not going to happen with
Robert Voss running the assembly.
A trifecta will certainly help us
move our agenda forward and
make sure that we are building
permanent affordability for all
Wisconsinites.
Regardless of what happens in
the end of November here,
we're ready to work for working
class people.
Whoever is willing to work with us,
you are as welcome.
And as far as Showman
dropping out of the race and Tiffany
being the lone Republican left,
does that change anything or is that
kind of just clarifies
whatever most people thought?
It doesn't change the fact that
we're going to rally and
unite around the candidate who
is the nominee, and
we look forward to defeating
Tom Tiffany in November.
Anything else you want to add?
I encourage everyone to
take action in your local
community that when
things feel very overwhelming
at the federal level.
Wee.
That we reinvest in
what we can do to help our neighbors
and take care of them.
Thank you
Totally
So, we keep the mic on you for just
a little bit.
It's all packed up.
We're going to put some of the loose
bags into the boxes.
What if they have
SVTs and they see someone?
Oh, there have been multiple first
aid kits.
Yeah, there's been a lot.
That's awesome!
I'm gonna do a paper bag, because
that one is...
This one is I'm
gonna and wait
Yeah, we, because then we can put
some of the loose bags into the
boxes so that it's easier to take.
Yeah, if we do,
oh this one's a little clear.
Are there any bags of fuel?
Can we do, this one's very
heavy.
Thank you.
Oh, that's a great one.
For the last couple of days.
I think that's, I think
that's great.
I think we're good.
Emily, what do you have going on
today?
And then, Larry has
that event, if someone needs to
address any questions, please
feel free to do so.
I have to talk to Larry.
Yeah, yeah
About I think he I
didn't talk to him soon enough
I know. Now Larry does that.
Yeah.
He'll- I think yeah.
Yeah.
See you next time.
You should talk to him.
Yeah,
yeah, you know.
This.
This might have a bottom.
Yep, yep.
She's not going to last.
Bye.
It's a lot of like paper goods and
stuff, so it's not super heavy.
Okay.
Because I think folks left these,
which is great, are those.
Let's put it with that stuff,
because that is what parents can
load them with.
Perfect, yeah.
Thank you.
Do we have any extra, we
want to put those plastic, but I
don't know if they're going to be
used.
Perfect.
Oh, I put it in the...
And this one is set aside.
Yes, here we are.
This one back here.
That one is for future events
like this. Just stuff to have on
hand. Yeah.
The first day in church, yeah.
Dual?
Yeah. If you want that or not,
if that works. I mean, he
would do that, I'm sure.
He's done that before.
I'll check in.
No, can you send it to me?
Or even start a group chat.
Which hits on Billionaire Union
Buster. Hong, plus five points.
Did you want a mic up, or are you
writing?
What's up? Do you want to mic up?
No?
Well, he's just getting bigger now,
so we'll keep that tethered on you
for now.
I forget, yeah, you just reminded
me I've got a hot mic, so.
Okay
They were too...
Okay.
Thank you very much.
Cool.
I'm gonna, hello.
Is there somebody I was supposed to
talk to?
I'm a sophomore this year, so it's
my second year, so I
like it here, it's pretty good.
It's like definitely, I'm from a
small town, so it was like Rio.
It's right by Madison, kinda.
It's a thousand people.
It's pronounced Ryo?
Did you think it was Rio?
Let me go meet her.
I have to.
Are you Korean?
Yeah, so I told my mom about it.
We were talking. She's the Korean
one. And then I was just like, oh my
god. This is so cool, Mom.
Look at this.
Look.
Well, as a mama
of a biracial
Korean kid, I have to
say that, you know,
y'all are the cutest.
I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name.
Keaton. Keaton, very nice to meet
you.
Sophomore as well?
Yeah. On campus.
But I go to Western Tech, so it's my
last year at lacrosse.
It's like the Associates program
instead of the bachelor's.
So it's like, the tech school right
by UW.
How can I? No, I'm serious, like,
I would love to go to bingo.
How would I get in contact with you
for that?
Either through This Is Renee,
my amazing campaign manager,
or you can send me a message
on Instagram.
The bar restaurant we went
to around the corner.
Oh, um...
I know.
It's lit.
We got bars at least
every couple of blocks,
same with Madison, we're the college
town as well.
I was I was just down there last
week, but there's there's measles
like there's that one measles
No, no, it's fine.
What's the question?
No, now I gotta know.
No, no, it's fine.
Oh, now you're embarrassed.
I didn't want to just ask you about
marijuana.
Oh no, we have a weed for speed
policy.
Actually, I'm like, well
if you actually look at it
Yeah
where there are a lot
more folks.
I was very pleasantly
surprised when I was in smaller,
I was actually in Oshkosh and
Whitewater where
there were
older folks who asked
me about what is my
policy on like,
what's my, about criminal
legal reform.
And so that's,
they know about these numbers.
How harmful it is for the entire
state if we have more folks who are
incarcerated having to go through.
I'm very scared for
herself because she has the accent
and everything and then for her mom
who came here from the Dominican
Republic, legally obviously she's
legal but that doesn't seem to be
really mattering.
No, I mean, at
this point, for a while, I thought
of La Crosse and Eau Claire, and
that's why events like this are
really important.
There's a network of folks who are
building community care.
Do you have any advice
for people
moving forward or what
more we can do?
Keep each other safe.
Yeah, keep each other safe.
Well, it definitely keeps it to be
very vocal to call out
on your federal
legislators.
So that, for this area,
is Derek Van Orden.
And let folks know
about investing in mutual
aid and that, you
know, volunteering and
donating to pantries
or even having gatherings, right,
where folks can talk about
knowing your rights training.
There's a lot of resources being
built across the state.
We have to stay really vigilant.
Something that you could do if you
wanted to talk more about that is
there's an organization on campus.
Their website has a lot,
like everything from
tool kits with graphics to
slide decks that you can share.
I mean, you can have a gathering and
go through it.
It was a PowerPoint presentation
and looked really fancy.
Awesome.
Yeah it was so nice to meet you
both. Do let me know about bingo.
Definitely. Yeah.
Definitely. Final question.
Who's winning the Super Bowl?
I guess the Seahawks, I don't know.
It's a good.
I don't like either of them,
so I'm just like, I'm here for
Bad Bunny's halftime show.
That's what I'm saying!
Are you talking over?
We're having like, you already know
Rihanna's getting down to bed.
Yeah, I don't know where I'll be,
but I'll be at Super Bowl.
Yep.
Okay.
I hope that,
you know, I'm anticipating
some pretty epic messages
that are going to come out and,
um.
He's got a tough act to follow after
Kendrick's, but I
think he'll manage.
Well, this should be the most
streamed Super Bowl of all time.
Oh, for sure.
Even all the old racist white people
are going to watch it.
Oh my god, look
at this guy.
Oh my God, he's wearing a dress.
He doesn't speak English.
Where's the English words?
Well, that's where I think it'll
actually be more epic is that
Hilsing in Spanish.
Yeah, that's what we wrote.
You should reach a bigger audience
this year.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, he's, you know,
a worldwide phenomenon.
If you're calling it a bad thing,
don't do it. It is.
Cool.
Yeah, it is.
It is a bad bunny concert.
When they have, who do they have no
two?
Listen to Nirvana and Green Day.
You probably were then.
You must have been like six.
It's mostly like being
sad in my friend's basement or
playing or playing GoldenEye
like I don't know how yeah
Joella was trying to she
missed Brennan and
Yes.
Thank you. Yeah, for sure.
Give those out.
We've got even more red cards.
Bring that to the Valentine's
Day party. Absolutely.
Yeah.
Red cards and then there's
like when you come here, Beth
stocks up on so many amazing
like just actions
that are happening and
resources.
They're gonna have a red hat
knitting party.
Yeah, I think that's not
this Saturday, but.
To what?
Sadie's been knitting.
Oh really? We're doing a red knit.
Oh yeah.
The 21st, I think.
Where's Nick?
But yeah, that's going to be cool.
That's here, too.
And then.
Twenty-four?
Yeah.
Okay.
Where are the whistles at?
Oh, yes.
Let's find the whistles.
Renee did you know do you know where
the whistles are where
they're more somewhere whistles
stitch no
stitch and bitch oh the
red
Yes.
Motherfucker, I thought you were...
Twenty-first, right?
Yes, so every
third Sunday of the month,
Rootnote hosts Stitchin'
Bitch.
It is for fiber
artists of all sorts, any crafting
that you want to do at all really.
But if you are interested in
learning how to knit or crochet
or do needlework,
like there are people that will
teach you there and
there are multiple folks who are
working on making the
ice out.
Red hats and making extras
for folks.
So I know that's a little ways out.
That's the 22nd then, I think
that's the 3rd Sunday.
I'm sorry, 20 seconds.
That is not a...
That is not a little ways out.
That's coming up pretty quick here.
We're talking about two weeks.
But if you want a hat, like
tomorrow,
that's a bit of
a wait.
Thank you.
Abby is working on pins
on little versions of the hats
so I think she's gonna drop
some off at root note so I would
check for those like
late next week you can get a pin
and then you can learn how to make
your own hat so yes
Bring some friends,
DM me about the bingo party.
I'll see you, bro.
This is how we're going to get the
students from the tech school.
We're going infiltrate their bingo
party.
Hell yeah, love that.
She's going to sneak in.
And then the next
And then the next one I'll bring the
Emily Berge is running for Congress,
and I'm just going to keep bringing
in
So yeah, I don't do either
of you do any fibroids right
now.
Are you what?
Like knit or crochet or anything
like that right now.
I did back in middle school.
I could crochet a good chain.
Hell yeah.
Love that.
My roommate, my roommate does both.
My sister's like a master, she does
like blankets and...
Bring them both.
Bring them, both.
Yes. And.
Double-checking it,
but folks have brought extra
supplies, both yarn and
needles and stuff for
beginners.
It's because there will be a lot
that folks...
You can just say it.
I learned today that
it is Rio, Wisconsin,
not Rio, Wisconsin,
the town.
It's in Dane County, right?
Put that on the news.
It's RIO.
Rio, Wisconsin.
I just learned that today.
Headline.
The new weather guy
is always challenged on rile,
wha-pawn, oka-ka-wawn.
Yeah.
A kind of a walk.
Yeah, I mean it
is, it's spelled how it.
Yeah. That's right.
The one that you can't
mess up too.
Like the other one that's tricky is
Shano.
Sean? Yes.
It reads it, yeah,
Shawano is what, how it's spelled.
There are more, I feel like there
are more in Michigan that have,
like, very, they
are not pronounced how they are
spelled, like at all.
The Midwest is just weird.
Oh, the other one is shawam again.
Mm-hmm.
Not quite.
I don't even know what that is.
Up north, it's very pretty up there.
The Mackinac Bridge, like, why
is that how that is pronounced?
Like, should not be
at all.
This is what Abby is working on for
me right now.
Oh
too.
But like it looks even better like
in person but...
You should have that be like a
background. Look how pretty that is.
Right?
Screenshot.
Did you say Watiesha?
That's how that that's how GPS says
yes.
Yeah, my name is in route to watch
What does your series say?
Yeah, my sweetest me I am.
That's not even close.
It's not.
My sister's name is Elena,
L-A-Y-N-A, and it goes,
La-hee-na.
Yeah
Mm-hmm.
My sister's name is Aaliyah, but
it's A-L-E-I-G-H,
so it's just Alay,
inspired.
I'm still thinking about Waqisha and
Mike.
So, yeah.
I think you should go around in
Waukesha and say Waukeesha.
We should try to gaslight
people into thinking it's actually
Wakisha. People that don't know the
name, it's pronounced Wakisha, not
Waukesha.
Because then you have both the town
and you can say Waukesha County.
Mm-hmm. Yep.
And get folks to say that.
And then hop over to Pewaukee and do
village, city, and township of
Pewaukee or something like that.
Kawaoke into a steam bun.
My mom, my mom freezes little
bags of Gobi for me so that I can
just cook it up in my house and it's
just ready to go for me.
Ask her to phrase CAR B2.
Okay, I will do that.
Because that too is like you can
actually put them marinated and
freeze it.
Yeah. See, we're learning all sorts
of stuff here.
I told you this would be worth our
while.
Very, very happy you came.
Thank you for coming out and
for staying engaged.
Thank you very much.
But yeah, I'll let you know the next
time I'm at UWL,
we're going to try to get folks out
from Black Student Union too.
And it'll just be like a Q&A,
y'all can grill me on
all things.
How are you getting back to campus?
I'm driving.
OK.
Okay, cool.
Thank goodness.
If it was like nighttime, I'd be
like, you have to text me when you
talk.
No it should be okay.
I think I can handle myself.
I don't know about him but I
can throw it around. It's all good.
Do you have a license?
Yeah.
No, he can't drive.
I've driven with him. It's really
scary.
As somebody who knows
that if I'm not on
the roads, everybody is safer.
Well, at least she admits it.
I would never admit to that.
I think what's worse is when I'll
tell people it's a stereotype.
You're right, Maya.
Okay, you got me.
You got me now.
DM for bingo, let
us know if there's anything more we
can do and then...
Hannah and Brennan with College Dems
will keep updating, but we'll have
it up on our, try to keep
it updated, the events.
Yeah, try to give everyone more lead
time.
Good work. Thank you so much.
You're so welcome.
Have a good rest of your weekend.
I'm going to try to get a book while
I'm at it.
Thank you.
Oh
There's like a description
Oh, and then you
won't know until you're just
going to open up these
up for a bit.