MADISON, Wis. — Today, Rep. Kristina Shelton, Social Security recipients Kim Javns and Karen Hayward, and Women’s Rights Green Bay activist Adrianna Pokela held a press conference in Green Bay, condemning Tim Michels and Ron Johnson for aligning themselves with Ron DeSantis, a radical MAGA activist who has sold out Floridians at every opportunity.
Speakers slammed Johnson and Michels for their attacks on Wisconsinites’ reproductive freedoms and called out Johnson for threatening to put Social Security on the chopping block – a move that would put the livelihoods of tens of thousands of Wisconsin seniors at risk.
Watch the full event here and see what the speakers had to say, in part, below.
Rep. Kristina Shelton: “Tim Michels is too extreme for Wisconsin. Since the beginning of his campaign, Michels has expressed support for our archaic 1849 abortion ban from 1849. And to put that in perspective, that is one year after the California gold rush. That is how old this law is. Now, this law would ban abortion and doesn’t include exceptions for rape or incest, and Michels has gone as far as to calling this an “exact mirror” of his position. Michels has confirmed that he supports restricting the rights of LGBTQ+ folks in Wisconsin. He’s called continuing to fund education the “definition of insanity,” and I will tell you as a mother with two kids in the public schools, I find that statement to be insane in and of itself, and he has refused…
