Final Five Voting
The Constitution wisely invested the three branches of government with the authority to keep each other focused on serving the citizens. It also invested us, the voters in each state, with the authority and responsibility to decide how best to select our Congress members. Let's use this authority/guardrail to implement "Final Five Voting" in Wisconsin, which would drive our Congress members to fulfill their Constitutional responsibility to serve state and country.

Tracy Hunter is a volunteer with Voters First Wisconsin, focusing on the initiative to bring “Final Five Voting” to Wisconsin. He will explain the “Primary Problem” that Final Five Voting addresses and why it incentivizes Congress to focus on collaboration to solve the serious problems we face like climate change, deficit, immigration reform, affordable housing, and healthcare access. The presentation will include an exercise that demonstrates how Final Five Voting works.

Biography:Tracy is a retired software developer with GE Healthcare. He received a BS and MS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin and lives with his wife in Waukesha. When he retired 3 years ago, he discovered the Final Five Voting effort in Wisconsin, which made so much sense and stimulated such a sense of hope that he decided this would be his new endeavor.

Contact: tracy@votersfirstwi.org
https://votersfirstwi.org/
262-391-1542 

Gina Newell, Homebuyers Round Table: Down Payment Assistance

Current statistics of national and local home ownership; prediction of future needs and information on the various federal, state, and local programs that offer down payment assistance

Biography:  

B.S. and M.S. from UW-Madison in Microbiology and Science Education; Graduate Certificate in School Business Management from UW-Whitewater. Former teacher and administrator. Former business manager at a residential remodeling company. Current Realtor with eXp Realty, plus a home stager. Active member of the Home Buyers Round Table, a non-profit organization that is a collaboration of housing industry representatives that promote homeownership through education and counseling to low and moderate-income families.

Contact:  gina.newell@exprealty.com                                                                                       608-345-9396

James Ferett, Ethical Trade

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Ed Weisbart, MD, PNHP: Save Our Medicare from Privatization

Medicare, our landmark health program for seniors, is rapidly moving toward privatization. And we're all paying extra for that. So-called Medicare Advantage was created with the promise of reducing the cost of the Medicare program, but it has never achieved this goal. In fact, these insurers are paid up to $140 billion per year above what the same patients would cost were they in Traditional Medicare. Despite these large subsidies, they delay access to care, frequently deny care that Medicare would have approved, and redirect care away from national Centers of Excellence.

My experiences as a practicing family physician and as a senior executive within the insurance industry have shown me that Medicare Advantage will always sacrifice the health of Americans in the service of their own profits. As board secretary of Physicians for a National Health Program, I will share tools and strategies that empower us all in the fight to protect our precious Medicare.

Biography:

After practicing family medicine for 20 years at Rush Medical Center in Chicago, Ed Weisbart MD moved to St. Louis MO in 2003 to serve as chief medical officer of Express Scripts until retiring in 2010. He volunteered as an assistant professor of clinical medicine at Washington University in St. Louis from 2004 until retiring clinically in 2021. He volunteers as the board secretary of Physicians for a National Health Program, a non-profit non-partisan group of 26,000 physicians who support universal access to high quality publicly funded health insurance free from profiteering and conflicts of interest.

Dr. Weisbart received his medical degree at the University of Illinois in Chicago in 1979 and completed his family medicine residency and a fellowship in family medicine education at Michigan State University in 1982.

Contact:  edweisbart@gmail.com   www.PNHP.org

John Bonifaz, Free Speech for People

I will focus my remarks on our campaigns to abolish super PACs and to end multinational corporate spending in our elections. The We Are the Guardrails Now theme includes the fight to end the big money dominance of our elections and our politics and to ensure that our democracy works for all.

Biography:  
John Bonifaz is a constitutional attorney and the Co-Founder and President of Free Speech For People, a national non-profit public interest organization dedicated to defending our democracy and our Constitution. Free Speech For People challenges big money in politics, fights to protect the right to vote and our elections, confronts corruption at the highest levels of our government, holds insurrectionists accountable, and works to advance a new jurisprudence grounded in the promises of political equality for all and American self-government.

Contact:  contact@freespeechforpeople.orgwww.freespeechforpeople.org                                                                                  www.impeachtrumpagain.org