Wisconsin Citizen Action

Who We Are: Wisconsin Citizen Action is the state’s premier public interest organization, dedicated to social, economic and environmental justice for all.

What they are doing: (courtesty of the Kerry spot)

• Hundreds of public schoolchildren, some as young as 11, are taking time out of regular classes to canvass neighborhoods in Milwaukee, Madison and Racine in a get-out-the-vote effort organized by Wisconsin Citizen Action Fund - a group whose umbrella organization has endorsed John Kerry for president.

  The coalition says the effort is non-partisan, but because the group is targeting minority neighborhoods and those with historically low voter turnout - overwhelmingly Democratic areas - Republican operatives are crying foul amid the highly charged political atmosphere in the state.

Call me a McCarthyite, but I get very nervous when groups talk about "economic equality for all". To me, that means one thing. And, yes, it begins with a "C" and ends with "ommunism".