Wisconsin Senate Race

Incumbent:	Senator Herb Kohl (D)
	Herb Kohl has a lifetime AFL-CIO congressional voting record of voting right on working family issues 80 percent of the time.
	Go to Herb Kohl’s campaign website.
Challenger(s):	Robert Gerald Lorge (R)
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A Strong Voice For Working Families 

Herb Kohl Is On Our Side

A Strong Voice.
HERB KOHL has a record of fighting for Wisconsin’s working families. As our senator for nearly 18 years, Herb Kohl has worked to strengthen America’s families, making health care more affordable, creating good jobs that pay well, strengthening our schools and protecting Social Security. (www.herbkohl.com)

Protecting Our Jobs and Wages.
Herb Kohl voted against sending our jobs overseas with CAFTA and to protect federal jobs from privatization. He voted to protect our overtime pay and unemployment benefi ts and co-sponsored the Employee Free Choice Act to restore our freedom to form unions. (S. 1307, 6/30/05; H.R. 2989, 9/29/03; S. 1637, 5/4/04; S. 1805, 2/26/04; S. 842, 2005)

Advocating for Our Health Care.
Herb Kohl will work to lower health care costs by allowing the government to negotiate prices with drug companies. He voted against Medicaid cuts that would have increased the number of uninsured and against the fl awed Medicare drug program that hurts seniors while giving billions to the health care industry. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2/1/06; S. Con. Res. 18, 3/17/05; S. 1, 6/24/03)

Supporting Minimum Wage Increases.
Herb Kohl supports raising the federal and state minimum wages because “we need to give all hard-working Americans a minimum wage that allows them to support a family without sinking into poverty.” (S. 256, 3/7/05; Kohl press release, 4/5/06)

 

VOTE Nov. 7

AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE AFL-CIO
How you vote is a personal decision. Whatever you decide, please vote.

 

 

 

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