ActBlue — WAND PAC

WAND PAC

by Women's Action for New Directions Political Action Committee

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Distributed among the recipients below

WAND PAC is a political action committee of WAND members. As a national membership organization, WAND works to increase women’s political power for the purpose of reducing violence and militarism and redirecting excessive military resources to unmet human and environmental needs.

Kay Barnes

MO-06 (Map)

In 1999, Kay Barnes was elected the first female Mayor of Kansas City, the largest city in Missouri. After eight years, she reached the two-term limit and stepped down in 2007. Barnes supports bringing troops home responsibly and redirecting the military budget to domestic priorities such as taking care of our veterans, improving our infrastructure, and providing more teachers. Barnes faces incumbent Sam Graves, who has taken thousands of dollars from the drug and oil companies while voting in their interests; he has the support of Vice President Dick Cheney and House Minority Leader John Boehner.

Tracey Brooks

NY-21 (Map)

In 2002, Tracey Brooks, as the Democratic nominee for the New York State Assembly, challenged a ten-year Republican incumbent—and came within three points of an upset victory. She represented Sen. Clinton in her work with government, political and community leaders in 15 counties in New York; she served as the Senator’s liaison to state government and statewide associations, and worked with them to help secure federal resources for upstate counties in the areas of economic development, health care, education and infrastructure.
Brooks attended Albany Law School on a fellowship, published research on alternative dispute resolution, and received the school’s inaugural Kate Stoneman award for gender equity and policy.

Darcy Burner

WA-08 (Map)

As a community leader and mother, Darcy Burner has the kind of authentic, real world experience that voters identify with. In 2006, she ran for Congress from a standing start, and won solid local and national support, to finish just short against Republican Dave Reichert. Burner is dedicated to WAND’s mission to end the war and redirect military spending to human needs; she has coordinated a realistic plan for returning Iraq to the Iraqis and benchmarks for bringing our troops home.

Joan Fitz-Gerald

CO-02 (Map)

State Sen. Fitz-Gerald is a longtime member of WiLL, and a staunch advocate for progressive values. She knows the budget process well, and understands how it reveals our national values. She supports an exit from Iraq as quickly as possible.
Rep. Mark Udall (D-CO) is retiring from his Democrat-leaning House seat in order to run for the U.S. Senate, creating an opening for Joan Fitz-Gerald, the state’s first woman Senate president, to go to Congress.

Debbie Halvorson

IL-11 (Map)

State Sen. Halvorson made her decision to run for Congress while attending the WiLL/WAND national conference in 2007. A longtime WiLL member, she added immeasurably to the energy and integrity at the conference.
Even before Rep. Jerry Weller, dogged by allegations of corruption, decided not to seek re-election, Democratic leaders were working to recruit state Senate Majority Leader Debbie Halvorson to challenge him in Illinois’s 11th congressional district. When Weller announced his retirement, this seat shot to the top of the list of prime Democratic pick-up opportunities. Halvorson cleared the field for the primary and must now focus on raising enough money to compete with the full force of a GOP determined to hold onto this seat.

Mary Jo Kilroy

OH-15 (Map)

WAND endorsed Kilroy in her run for Congress in 2006, when she nearly unseated the highest-ranking Republican woman in Congress (Deborah Pryce). Pryce outspent Kilroy by almost $2 million, but won by a margin of only 1,062 votes. Kilroy decided to keep her campaign going and run again; when Pryce decided not to seek re-election in 2008, it left this critical seat in a swing state up for grabs!
When Kilroy served as Franklin County Commissioner, the county was ranked as one of the five best-managed in the country (by Governing magazine). Kilroy willl work to restore fiscal sanity to the Federal budget, fix the Medicare prescription drug benefit, and honor our men and women in uniform and their dependents.

Marge Krupp

WI-01 (Map)

Krupp, challenging incumbent Republican Congressman Paul Ryan, says her personal experiences enable her to understand the troubles of working families and seniors. She graduated with an MBA from Northwestern University, is a senior member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and holds a Professional Engineer License in Wisconsin. She has worked for S.C. Johnson and Son, Inc. and Abbott Laboratories. She is dedicated to ending the war in Iraq, finding real solutions for America’s health care crisis, and advocating for America’s working families.

Chellie Pingree

ME-01 (Map)

When Rep. Tom Allen decided to give up his House seat to run for Senate, Pingree, a former state senator, quickly announced that she would run—and became the frontrunner in a crowded field. Pingree, who resigned her post as president of Common Cause to run, is a national leader on ethics and reform. WAND endorsed her previously, when she ran to unseat U.S. Sen. Susan Collins®. While she was outspent and attacked by the drug companies in that race, Pingree mobilized thousands of volunteers in a sophisticated grassroots campaign; she earned widespread respect for speaking out against the Iraq invasion at a time when few politicians were willing to do so.

Jeanne Shaheen

NH-Sen (Map)

The only woman elected Governor of New Hampshire, Jeanne Shaheen worked to make a difference for families. The result is a record of achievement in smart energy policies, expanding access to health care, making government more accountable, improving education, strengthening the state’s economy, preserving our environment, and protecting civil rights.
Shaheen spoke at the 2007 WAND/WiLL national conference, and gave voice to women’s perspective on taking a seat at the tables of power.

Samm Simpson

FL-10 (Map)

WAND is proud to endorse Samm Simpson’s run for Congress once again, after her effort in 2006. A peace activist and radio personality in Florida, Simpson calls herself an “Independent Thinking Democrat,” and advances far-reaching populist ideas.
She says, “the immediate answer is new national spending priorities. Do we continue to fund our empire on the backs of our grandchildren via debt owned by foreign nations? Or we begin a serious reckoning of the priorities declared in our Constitution?”

Linda Stender

NJ-07 (Map)

Assemblywoman Stender is a former mayor and county freeholder; she won a seat in the Assembly in 2001, where she led fights to expand economic development and protect the environment. Stender also led the fight to make emergency contraception available over the counter in New Jersey, to require pharmacists to fill birth control prescriptions, and to make New Jersey a leader in stem cell research.
Her top priorities in Congress are, first, to bring the troops home from Iraq as quickly as possible; second, to expand efforts in homeland security.

Victoria Wulsin

OH-02 (Map)

Dr. Vic Wulsin has dedicated her career to public health, working at the community level in Cincinnati and leading international projects around the world.
In 2006, she won more votes in Ohio’s second district than any Democrat has ever done before. She came within 2,500 votes of beating Jean Schmidt (a fiercely conservative Republican).

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