Russ Feingold
Democratic senator candidate
Past experiences:
- 1983 to 1993 - Feingold was a Wisconsin State Senator
- 1993 to 2011 - Democratic member of the U.S. Senate
- 2010 - Feingold lost his campaign for re-election to the U.S. Senate to Republican Ron Johnson
Things he voted against:
- Banning same-sex marriage
- Banning abortion
- Increasing penalties for drug offenses
- Prohibiting lawsuits against gun manufacturers (Supports restrictions on the right to bear arms)
- Establishing reserve funds & pre-funding for Social Security
Things he voted for:
- Repealing federal speed limits
- National education standards
- Overriding veto on expansion of Medicare
- Increasing tax rate for people earning over $1 million (Supports more federal taxes & keeping marriage penalty)
- Internet sales tax moratorium (Temporary prohibition)
- Redeploying non-essential US troops out of Iraq
- Welfare block grants
- Eliminating block grants for food stamps
Current campaign goals/promises:
Fix the lack of broadband in some areas in the state
Broadband - a high-capacity transmission technique using a wide range of frequencies, which enables a large number of messages to be communicated simultaneously
“Americans who work full time deserve a living wage”
Many americans who work full and multiple jobs can not pay their bills (he wants to fix this)
Wants to help close the gender gap for wages
Wants to create greater opportunity for education
He thinks that US government is doing something good when they help make it possible to provide training facilities: two year technical colleges and universities
- He wants people be able to get trained with the skills they need become employed