Keep an Ear on Milwaukee Right Wing Media

Greetings Milwaukee County Democrats,

As of this month, the Dem Party’s Communications Committee is kicking off two media initiatives that could have a powerful effect on our success in the upcoming elections, from the local level all the way to the Governor’s office and the U.S. Senate: a Radio Monitoring Team and a Rapid Messaging Team.

The Radio Monitoring Team will be charged with listening to Mark Belling, Charlie Sykes and Jeff Wagner, the trifecta of radical right wing radio in Milwaukee. Each team member will take several listening shifts each week, and will make a brief report on each broadcast. We don’t expect you to call in to these shows. You’ll simply listen and report back so that we and our candidates can stay on top of the latest right wing talking points. Since the times of these shows range from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. weekdays, this would be an ideal activity for students, retirees, third shift workers and people who are able to make their own schedules.

The Rapid Messaging Team, on the other hand, will be charged with writing letters to the editor and posting online comments that support our Democratic values and candidates. Again, we’re not asking you to call in to radio stations — you’ll simply write a short letter or comment whenever you get an action alert from the Communications Committee. We’ll give you the topic and we’ll tell you where to submit it.

I hope you’ll consider joining one or both of these action teams. Your service in defense of Democratic values is needed and appreciated. Please email me at monitor@milwaukeedems.org if you’d like to join, or if you have any questions. Or call DPMC headquarters at 414-223-3050 and leave a message.

We had announced this on Friday and we were flattered that the beautiful minds on talk radio actually read our site and led off their three hours of sheep herding lambasting our efforts.

It is bad enough that the distortions dished out on these hatefests find their way onto the mainstream local media and become marching orders for the authoritarians who take this stuff as gospel. They have done their level best to pollute the political discourse pool.

This is your chance to listen so we can fire back. We know that ten minutes of this nonsense can be irritating. We appreciate the sacrifice.