It’s been a long year in the struggle for Wisconsin and we have had many successes and lots of political set backs. I was in no way politically active before Feb2011 but have always voted and firmly believe that politics is not a spectator’s doing. It is imperative that citizens stand up to their politicians [...]
Old Glory, Washington DC, Yuri Rashkin, Yuri RaskinThe following letter was published in the Janesville Gazette on February 22, 2012: “Monday night, Feb. 13, the Janesville City Council approved $9 million worth of incentives for a company that promises to create 125 jobs in Janesville in the next three to five years. We can debate whether or not this was a good [...]
Janesville City Council, Janesville Gazette, Yuri RashkinCheck out the first in the series of short testimonials by Janesville residents in support of my candidacy for the 44th Assembly District. The first video features Burdette Erickson, 4th Ward activist, who offered to hold a fundraiser for me as soon as he heard that I was running for the Assembly. I am honored [...]
Assembly District, Burdette Erickson, Janesville City Council, Yuri Rashkin1. The right skills. I bring people together. As a business person and a leader of community organizations, I know that we succeed by working together. For too long, Madison has been a place where good ideas go to die in the partisan machinery, and it needs to stop. Whether a union or a business [...]
Assembly District, Janesville City Council, Janesville Mile, Yuri RashkinFrom Janesville Gazette, 12/28/2010 by Catherine Idzerda The envelope please… In less than two months, presenters from the United Arts Alliance will be announcing the winners of the Janesville Area Creativity awards at ArtsFest 2011, Feb. 11 and 12. Here’s an introduction to the creativity awards, which are new, and to the annual ArtsFest, which [...]
Hedberg Public Library, Janesville Area Creativity, Janesville City Council, United Arts AllianceAs some of you may know, I applied to WCLO to host their morning show, which I believe is an extremely important part of our community communication efforts. (I am a grad student in Mass Communications at UW-Whitewater and take radio, media and communications very seriously.) As we know by now, station management chose someone [...]
Dan Conry, Mass Communications, WCLO, Yuri RashkinFrom the Janesville Gazette Sunday, April 4, 2010 “We strongly urge you to vote for the three incumbents, Tom McDonald, Yuri Rashkin and Kathy Voskuil. All three earned our endorsements two years ago, and the qualities that impressed us then hold true now. While we don’t agree with every vote they make on every issue, [...]
Janesville Gazette, Janesville Gazette Sunday, Kathy Voskuil, Main StreetThe following letters of support have been published by the Gazette in the past 2 days. KUZNACIC, RASHKIN DESERVE YOUR VOTES “I would like to ask others to vote next week for two very good people whom I have the pleasure to know. I am very happy to call friends Katie Kuznacic for Rock County [...]
Janesville Gazette, Kathy Voskuil, Rock County Board, Yuri RashkinHere’s the link to my interview with Stan Milam. It starts about half way through the sound clip. Stan and I talked about the Janesville Mile, economic development and the ice arena. Campaign update: pick up “Yuri Rashkin for City Council” yard signs and campaign buttons at Codos Coffee!
City Council, Janesville Mile, Stan Milam, Talking Janesville MileThe Facebook page for the campaign is up and can be found here Yuri Rashkin for City Council. If you are using Facebook, I hope you will consider joining. Interesting how much has changed: just two years ago when I first ran, having a blog was important but Facebook didn’t seem like anything that was [...]
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