Dear Friend,

Welcome to my campaign’s website. Thank you for visiting to learn more about my positions, accomplishments, and commitments to you. I appreciate your interest in the issues and the ongoing input that I have received from tens-of-thousands of constituents I have had the honor to represent in the State Senate.

When I was elected to the State Senate in 2001, Wisconsin needed reform due to state scandal and fiscal management. Additionally, Wisconsin was one of the highest taxed states in the nation and Senate leadership was criminally indicted in a sweeping pay-to-play scandal. It took your involvement to change Madison.

Together, we have had big accomplishments. Whether it was the enactment of the Crackdown on Meth Act, enabling the creation of Health Care Cooperatives, or banning the infamous Frankenstein Veto, your trust to bring about these changes was instrumental to our success. The Crackdown on Meth Act has reversed the growth in meth labs in our communities; health care cooperatives are poised to help provide families and small employers more affordable health care choices; and the ban of the Frankenstein Veto restored some tax-and-spend accountability to our state government.

But there is more work to do. Wisconsin working families are jeopardized by a slowing national economy. Yet, our opposition continues to push plans that would double our tax burden, limit health care choices, and impose new government programs our economy cannot afford. By working together, we can bring about a government we can afford that puts working families first.

Once again, thank you for your involvement. Please check out the issues pages – the most exhaustive of any candidate running for Senate – so you can see specifically where I stand on the issues that matter to you. Email me if you have any questions and feel free to join our campaign, either as a volunteer or contributor, as we work to reform Wisconsin to make it work for us.

Sincerely,

Sheila Harsdorf