Dear Senator Johnson, I am a constituent from the Town of Oregon in Dane County. I am writing to ask you to vote yes on the Senate War Powers Resolution and to reassert Congress's constitutional authority over military action. Article I gives Congress, not the president, the power to declare war. When a president takes military action without Congress's approval, it weakens the separation of powers and the rule of law, whichever party holds the White House. A senator who values limited government and accountability should protect this check on executive power. Wisconsin service members, Guard members, and their families deserve a full debate and a recorded vote before they are put in harm's way. I also ask you to use your seat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to push for oversight hearings on any use of force that Congress has not authorized. I vote, and I will be watching how you vote on this resolution. Please let me know whether you will commit to voting yes. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Senator Baldwin, As your constituent in the Town of Oregon, thank you for warning Wisconsin this summer about possible election interference by the Trump administration. Thank you also for introducing legislation on September 23 to ban the use of federal funds to deploy Homeland Security or National Guard personnel at or near any location where an election is taking place. Your cosponsorship of the bill to prohibit interference in federal elections shows you understand what is at stake. I am writing with one specific request. Please use your senior seat on the Appropriations Committee to write your polling place protection ban into any Homeland Security or stopgap spending bill that moves this fall. Please also use the minority's procedural tools to force a Senate floor vote on it before the November election. Your bill needs to become law before voters go to the polls. In the Town of Oregon, my neighbors vote at our local town polling place, and none of us should have to cast a ballot in front of armed federal agents. Please commit publicly to this step and tell constituents how we can follow its progress. Wisconsin voters will support you if you fight hard on this. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Representative Pocan, As your constituent in the Town of Oregon, thank you for your work defending our democracy, and congratulations on your August primary win. I especially appreciated your cosponsorship this July of legislation to apply the ban on foreign contributions and expenditures to foreign-controlled and foreign-influenced domestic companies. Keeping our elections accountable to voters matters. I am writing with one specific request. Please lead a public sign-on letter demanding that the U.S. Postal Service formally rescind its now-blocked rule that threatens the on-time delivery of mail ballots. A temporary block is not a permanent fix. Until the rule is formally withdrawn, voters cannot be confident their ballots will arrive in time. In Wisconsin, an absentee ballot that arrives after Election Day is not counted, and many of my neighbors in Dane County rely on voting by mail. As a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, you have real leverage with the Postal Service. I respectfully ask that you commit to leading this letter within the next two weeks and making the USPS response public. Constituents here will stand behind you. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Attorney General Kaul, I am a constituent in the Town of Oregon, and I am writing first to thank you for your work defending the rule of law in Wisconsin. I saw that you visited Wausau this month to talk about the upcoming election. I have one specific request as November approaches. Before Election Day, please publicly announce a concrete plan for how the Wisconsin Department of Justice will protect voters from federal interference. That plan should include a commitment to join or lead multistate legal action so the now-blocked USPS rule that threatened timely delivery of mail ballots cannot be revived. Many voters in Dane County rely on mail ballots, and every delayed ballot risks a voter being disenfranchised. Your office can do more to block federal overreach than almost any other in the state. Please use that power publicly and early. Constituents like me will support you when you do. I would welcome a reply describing the steps your office will take. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Senator Johnson, I am writing as your constituent in the Town of Oregon to ask you to use your role as chair of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to hold a public oversight hearing on the DHS whistleblower report, and to call for the report's full public release. In May you cosponsored the resolution designating National Police Week. I share the view that law enforcement deserves respect, and I believe that respect is earned through accountability. When a whistleblower inside the Department of Homeland Security raises concerns, those concerns should be examined openly, under oath, before the Senate. Investigating federal agencies is the core purpose of the subcommittee you lead, and this is exactly the kind of oversight it was created to conduct. This matters here at home. In Dane County, immigrant families work on our farms, attend our schools, and are part of our congregations and neighborhoods. Children should be able to attend school without fear, and every person in this country deserves due process. I respectfully ask that you commit to scheduling a hearing on the DHS whistleblower report and to publicly support its release. I vote, and I will be following your response closely. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Senator Baldwin, I am writing as your constituent in the Town of Oregon to thank you for introducing legislation to keep ICE and the National Guard away from polling places, and to ask you to take the next step. Please use your senior position on the Appropriations Committee to demand public release of the DHS whistleblower report and to press for oversight hearings on its findings. You have cosponsored legislation supporting independent investigation and prosecution of deadly force by law enforcement. ICE should be held to that same standard, especially after the most recent ICE shooting and the growing concern about enforcement actions at schools. Families in Dane County, including immigrant neighbors in our own community, deserve to know that Congress is watching and that every child can attend school safely. I respectfully ask that you publicly call for the report's release, lead or join an oversight letter to DHS, and use the appropriations process to make DHS funding depend on transparency and accountability. I would appreciate a reply describing the steps you plan to take. Please know that constituents like me support you in fighting hard on this. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Representative Pocan, I am your constituent in the Town of Oregon, and I am grateful for your consistent work on behalf of working families, including your recent cosponsorship of emergency Medicaid funding for home and community based services. I am writing with one specific request: please publicly demand the release of the DHS whistleblower report, and lead or join a sign-on letter calling for oversight hearings on its findings. As a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, you have real leverage over how the Department of Homeland Security is funded and held accountable. Immigrant families in Dane County, including children who should be able to attend school without fear, deserve to know whether the agencies enforcing these policies are respecting due process and the law. Reports of ICE enforcement near schools and the latest ICE shooting make independent oversight urgent. Please use the power of your office to push for transparency, not only a statement. I would appreciate a reply confirming whether you will lead or sign such a letter in the coming weeks. Constituents like me have your back if you fight harder on this. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Governor Evers, I am a constituent in the Town of Oregon, and I want to thank you for your leadership. Marking 9/11 this month with a day of service at Kettle Moraine State Forest showed the spirit of community Wisconsin is known for. I am writing to ask you to bring that same spirit to protecting our immigrant neighbors. I respectfully ask you to issue an executive order barring state agencies and state resources from any role in federal immigration actions that deny people due process, and directing agencies to protect children's safe access to school. Advocates are raising alarms about ICE enforcement near schools, a recent ICE shooting that needs an independent investigation, and a DHS whistleblower report that has not been made public. Families here in Dane County are afraid. Your authority over state agencies gives you a direct way to make sure Wisconsin plays no part in that. You are not seeking re-election, which gives you the freedom to act boldly in your remaining months. Please make a public commitment to this order, and let me know when I can expect it. Constituents across Wisconsin will stand behind you. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Attorney General Kaul, I am a constituent in the Town of Oregon, and I am writing first to thank you, and then to ask you to use the full authority of the Department of Justice. Please issue formal guidance to Wisconsin school districts and local law enforcement that keeps immigration enforcement out of schools and limits sharing license plate reader data with federal immigration authorities. Your recent call for tighter guidelines on license plate readers is exactly the right instinct. Without clear limits, these databases can be used to track immigrant families as they go about daily life, including the drive to school. Your public attention to how police shootings are investigated also matters. That same standard of independent, transparent review should apply when federal immigration agents use force in our state. In Oregon, immigrant families are our neighbors, and their children sit in the same classrooms as ours. They deserve to know their rights and to know what their local agencies will and will not do. I ask that you commit to publishing this guidance within the next 60 days, and to join multistate legal action where federal enforcement crosses legal lines. Please know that constituents like me will stand behind you if you push harder. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear County Executive Agard, I am a constituent in the Town of Oregon, and I want to thank you for speaking publicly after the Madison police-involved shooting in July. I am writing to ask you to include dedicated funding for legal representation for immigrant residents facing deportation in your 2027 executive budget proposal. Mass deportation efforts are separating families and denying people due process, and immigrant children are growing afraid to go to school. Immigration court does not guarantee anyone a lawyer, and people who have one are far more likely to get a fair hearing. Dane County's non-cooperation policy is an important protection. A county-funded legal defense program would give it real force for our neighbors, including working families in rural towns like mine. Your office writes the county budget, so you have the power to act on this directly. Please commit publicly to including immigrant legal defense funding in your proposal this fall. Many of us in Dane County support you in taking a strong stand, and I would welcome an update on your decision. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Sheriff Barrett, I am a constituent in the Town of Oregon. I am writing to ask you to publish a written policy stating that the Dane County Jail will not hold anyone on an ICE detainer unless a judge has signed a warrant. You recently wrote that the Sheriff's Office needs sustained investment, and your office just received grant funding for more patrols. I share your goal of a safe county. Public safety depends on trust, though. When immigrant residents fear that a traffic stop or a call for help could lead to deportation, they stop reporting crimes and stop cooperating as witnesses. That weakens the work your deputies do every day. With federal immigration enforcement expanding across the country, even near schools, Dane County families need clear assurance that due process will be respected here. A public, written detainer policy, posted on the county website, would give residents that assurance. I respectfully ask you to commit to publishing it before the end of this year. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Senator Johnson, I am a constituent from Oregon, Wisconsin, writing about the future of our national parks. Advocates are raising alarm about cuts and privatization threats to Yosemite National Park, and about proposals to treat national parks as revenue-generating assets instead of protected public land. My ask is simple: please commit to opposing budget proposals that cut National Park Service funding or privatize protected lands. I read that you are prepared to take over the Senate Budget Committee. That position carries real influence over spending priorities, and it is a direct way to protect parks from the cuts now being feared. Your office can also use its appropriations and floor votes to keep public lands public. This is a Wisconsin issue as well. Families in our state rely on places like the Apostle Islands and the Ice Age Trail for recreation, tourism income, and clean water. Conservation and clean energy help keep these places healthy for the next generation. I vote in every election and am following this closely. I would appreciate a reply telling me where you stand and whether you will commit to this. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Senator Baldwin, I am writing as your constituent in the Town of Oregon to thank you for your work on the environment, including your August letter with colleagues demanding that the EPA drop its efforts to weaken PFAS drinking water protections. That kind of leadership matters to families across Dane County. I am asking you to use your senior seat on the Appropriations Committee to block any cuts to National Park Service funding. Please also block any provision in the Interior spending bill that would treat our national parks as revenue-generating assets or open them to privatization. Advocates are warning about the threats facing Yosemite, and the same pressures endanger the places Wisconsin families love: the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway, and the Ice Age National Scenic Trail, which runs through Dane County near my home. Please commit publicly to opposing these cuts and privatization provisions during the appropriations process, and lead a letter with your colleagues that puts this position on the record. I would welcome a reply telling me what steps you will take. Constituents here will support you if you fight hard on this. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Representative Pocan, I am a constituent in the Town of Oregon, and I want to thank you for cosponsoring the resolution in July that recognizes the health and safety emergency children face from the administration's push to unleash fossil fuels and suppress climate science. That stand matters, and I am grateful for it. I am writing to ask you to use your senior seat on the Appropriations Committee to protect our national parks. Advocates are warning about cuts and privatization threats at Yosemite and about efforts to turn parks into revenue-generating assets instead of protected public land. The Interior and Environment appropriations bill is where these decisions get made. Specifically, I ask that you lead a public sign-on letter or offer an amendment that fully funds the National Park Service and prohibits privatizing park lands and operations. This is personal for Wisconsin. The Ice Age National Scenic Trail runs through Dane County, and our communities rely on Park Service lands for recreation, conservation, and tourism. Please let me know whether you will commit to this step this fall. Constituents here will stand with you if you fight hard for it. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Governor Evers, I am writing as a constituent from the Town of Oregon in Dane County to thank you for your radio address celebrating National Clean Energy Week and for highlighting Wisconsin's clean energy progress. I am also writing with one specific request. Before your term ends, please issue an executive order directing the DNR and other state agencies to make Wisconsin's clean energy and conservation commitments permanent, so they do not depend on who holds your office next. With the governor's race open in 2026, the gains you described could easily stall or be undone. Federal protection for public lands is also weakening, and advocates are warning about cuts and privatization threats to national parks such as Yosemite. Because of this, Wisconsin's own commitments to clean energy and conservation carry more weight than ever. For rural Dane County households like mine, this affects our energy bills, our water, and the open land around us. You have the authority to act now, and your constituents will support you if you do. Please let me know whether you will commit to a concrete executive step this fall. I plan to follow up with your office. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Attorney General Kaul, I am a constituent in the Town of Oregon, and I am writing to thank you for your work defending Wisconsin, and to ask you to take one concrete step. Please publicly commit to joining or leading multistate lawsuits that challenge unlawful federal rollbacks of environmental and climate protections, including any attempt to cut, sell off, or privatize national public lands. Advocates across the country are raising alarms about cuts and privatization threats to national parks such as Yosemite. Wisconsin has a lot to lose too, from the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore to the clean water and open land our Dane County communities depend on. The Department of Justice is one of the most effective tools our state has to block federal overreach. As a member of the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands, you also understand why public land must stay in public hands. I would be grateful for a public statement of your commitment and an update on which actions your office plans to join. Please know that many constituents support you and want you to fight boldly on this. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Senator Johnson, I am writing as your constituent in the Town of Oregon to ask you to vote against any Farm Bill or spending package that cuts SNAP funding, tightens eligibility, or shifts food assistance costs onto the states. I also ask you to oppose cuts to Medicaid and to disability and senior benefits that working families in Wisconsin rely on. In Wisconsin, SNAP is FoodShare, and hundreds of thousands of our neighbors depend on it. Many of them are working families, children, seniors, and people with disabilities. When food assistance is cut, the need falls on food pantries, schools, and local charities that cannot fill the gap. SNAP benefits are also spent at Wisconsin grocers and farm markets, so cuts hurt our farmers and rural businesses too. You have a vote on the Farm Bill and on appropriations, and as a senior member of the Senate you have a real say in what moves forward. I ask you to commit publicly to protecting SNAP funding in the Farm Bill and to vote no on any package that cuts it. I vote, and I will be following your votes on this issue closely. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Senator Baldwin, As your constituent in the Town of Oregon, I want to thank you for your steady support of Wisconsin families. This summer you cosponsored legislation to expand Medicaid home and community-based services and strengthen the direct care workforce, and you backed a resolution disapproving a CMS rule on Medicare prior authorization. Those actions matter, and I am asking you to bring the same resolve to food assistance. I urge you to publicly commit to voting no on any Farm Bill that cuts SNAP funding. In Wisconsin, SNAP is FoodShare. It helps children, seniors, and people with disabilities afford groceries, including families here in Dane County, and it supports the local grocers and farmers who are part of our rural economy. Cutting it would put more strain on working families at a time when many are already stretched thin. As a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, you are in a strong position to protect full SNAP funding, force floor votes, and lead your colleagues in rejecting harmful cuts. Please make a clear public statement of your position and let constituents know what steps you will take. We have your back if you fight hard on this. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Representative Pocan, As your constituent in the Town of Oregon, thank you for cosponsoring the bill for an emergency increase in federal Medicaid funding for home and community-based services. Standing up for seniors and people with disabilities is exactly the kind of leadership I want from my representative. I am writing with one specific request. Please lead a public sign-on letter to House leadership stating that any Farm Bill that cuts SNAP funding is unacceptable, and commit to voting no on any Farm Bill that does. SNAP helps working families, children, and seniors in Dane County put food on the table, and cutting it would undercut the same people your Medicaid work protects. As a senior member of Appropriations and co-founder of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, you are well placed to rally colleagues and draw a firm, public line. Constituents like me will support you in that fight. I would be grateful to hear whether you will take this step. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Governor Evers, I am a constituent in the Town of Oregon, and I want to thank you for your commitment to Wisconsin's working families. I am writing to ask you to direct the Department of Health Services to publish a public plan, before the end of this year, to keep every eligible Wisconsinite enrolled in FoodShare and BadgerCare as federal cuts take effect. Congress is moving SNAP costs and administrative burdens onto the states, and new federal Medicaid requirements are on the way. Eligible people should never lose food or health coverage because of paperwork. DHS answers to your office, so you can make sure the agency uses every flexibility federal law allows, keeps renewals simple, and reaches families before benefits lapse. You can also use your budget and veto powers to reject any state proposal that would make these cuts worse. Food pantries in Dane County are already stretched, and rural households, seniors, and people with disabilities depend on these programs. Because you are not seeking re-election, you have the freedom to act boldly now, and constituents like me will support you. I would be grateful for a reply letting me know whether you will commit to this step. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Governor Evers, I am a constituent in the Town of Oregon, Dane County, and I am writing to thank you for your commitment to Wisconsin's natural resources. I am also asking you to make the full reauthorization and funding of the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program, along with an end to anonymous Joint Finance Committee holds, a top and public priority for the remainder of your term. Knowles-Nelson is one of Wisconsin's proudest bipartisan achievements. Its bonding authority has been allowed to lapse and shrink, and anonymous committee holds have blocked individual conservation purchases without any public vote or accountability. Families in Dane County rely on these parks, trails, and habitat, and development pressure in our area makes protecting open space more urgent every year. You hold real tools to move this forward: the budget, the veto pen, and direction of the DNR. I respectfully ask you to publicly call on the Legislature to pass a full reauthorization, and to direct the DNR to publish every conservation project currently held by the committee so Wisconsinites can see what is being blocked. Please let me know what steps your office will take. Many of us stand ready to support you. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Attorney General Kaul, I am a constituent in the Town of Oregon, and I am grateful for your work defending Wisconsin against unlawful federal overreach. I am writing to ask you to use the authority of your office to protect the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program. Specifically, I ask that you issue a formal legal opinion on whether the Joint Finance Committee's anonymous holds on stewardship land purchases comply with Wisconsin law. In 2024, the Wisconsin Supreme Court held in Evers v. Marklein that the committee may not use a legislative veto to block these conservation projects. Anonymous objections still allow a single legislator to delay or quietly kill public land deals, and no one has to answer for it. A formal opinion from the Department of Justice would give state agencies, land trusts, and local governments clear legal footing. It would also give the public the transparency it deserves. As a member of the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands, you know how much public land means to Wisconsin families, including mine in Dane County. Please commit to issuing this opinion this fall and to publicly supporting full reauthorization and funding of Knowles-Nelson. I would appreciate a reply letting me know what steps your office will take. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Secretary Godlewski, I am a constituent writing to thank you for your service and to ask you to take a visible lead on saving the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program. Specifically, I ask that you use your statewide platform to publicly call on the Legislature to fully reauthorize and fund Knowles-Nelson, and to end the anonymous Joint Finance Committee holds used to block individual conservation purchases. For decades, Knowles-Nelson has funded public land, parks, trails, and wildlife habitat for all Wisconsinites. Its bonding authority has been allowed to lapse and shrink, and anonymous holds let a single unnamed legislator stop a project with no public explanation. As a member of the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands, you understand how much public trust lands matter to Wisconsin's future. In Dane County, my family and neighbors depend on these parks, trails, and clean waters. I respectfully ask for a concrete, public step in the coming weeks, such as a statement, press event, or site visit making the case for reauthorization. Please know that constituents will support you if you push hard on this. I would appreciate a reply about what you plan to do. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Treasurer Leiber, I am writing as a constituent to ask you to use your position as chair of the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands to advocate for the full reauthorization and funding of the Warren Knowles-Gaylord Nelson Stewardship Program, and to speak out against the anonymous Joint Finance Committee holds that have been blocking individual conservation purchases across the state. Knowles-Nelson has been the backbone of land conservation in Wisconsin for decades, funding parks, trails, and habitat that benefit communities in every corner of the state, including here in Dane County near the Town of Oregon. Allowing its bonding authority to shrink and permitting a small number of unnamed legislators to quietly veto specific land purchases undermines both conservation and public accountability. As the official responsible for managing roughly 77,000 acres of public trust land, you are well positioned to speak to the value of this program and to press for an end to the pocket-veto practice. I would appreciate knowing whether you will commit to publicly supporting full funding for Knowles-Nelson and to calling for transparency in the JFC review process. I look forward to your response. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Senator Marklein, I am writing as your constituent to ask you to fully reauthorize and fund the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program, and to end the anonymous Joint Finance Committee holds that block individual conservation purchases. As co-chair of the Joint Finance Committee, you directly control whether this program continues and whether those holds remain in place. No one in the Legislature is better positioned to act. Knowles-Nelson has protected Wisconsin's public lands, parks, trails, and habitat for generations, and it has long had support from both parties. Letting its bonding authority shrink or lapse would put that legacy at risk for families across the 17th District who hunt, fish, hike, and enjoy the outdoors. The anonymous holds make things worse. They let a single legislator stop projects that local communities have worked toward, with no public name attached and no accountability to voters. I am asking for a clear commitment: reauthorize and fund Knowles-Nelson in full, and end anonymous JFC holds on conservation projects. I vote, and I will be watching how you use your role on this issue. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Representative Jacobson, Thank you for standing with constituents like me on conservation and environmental issues. I'm writing to ask you to take a visible, active role in fully reauthorizing and funding the Warren Knowles Gaylord Nelson Stewardship Program, and to publicly call for an end to the Joint Finance Committee's anonymous holds that have blocked individual conservation purchases. You have real tools here, as a co-sponsor, a public advocate on the Assembly floor, and as an Oregon based legislator with a growing platform heading into your Senate campaign. A public commitment from you, not just a statement of support but a concrete push for a floor vote and transparency in JFC's process, would carry real weight with voters across this district who value our parks, trails, and natural habitat. I would welcome the chance to hear how you plan to use your position to move this forward, and I hope you will name the anonymous hold practice directly and call for its end. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575