TDWS: Interviewing Political Candidates with Walter Rhein & Emily Berge
How Substack can create a political revolution, one progressive candidate at a time.
Today on The Daily Whatever Show, we welcomed back our very first guest ever, Walter Rhein of I’d Rather Be Writing, and his district’s congressional candidate, Emily Berge, running for Wisconsin’s 3rd District.
Emily is a therapist, eight-year Eau Claire City Council president, and the kind of candidate who actually picks up the phone when a scared constituent calls. Walter told the story of panicking when ICE arrived in his area — his wife is an immigrant, his kids are biracial — and Emily called him back personally and talked him down. That’s the moral argument for her candidacy right there, and she’s got the experience and smarts to back up her empathy.
She’s running in a primary against the DCCC-backed Rebecca Cook, with local endorsements throughout the district and a ground game built on showing up.
If you’re in Wisconsin’s 3rd, vote for her.
If you’re not, consider making a donation. $5 still matters — ask AOC how she won.
Thank you NeuroDivergent Hodgepodge, LeftieProf, Honey Badger, Acejonesz, Maura, and many others for tuning in, and to Karen Salmansohn and Yanni Hamburger for moderating.
We love you all, mean it!
Dana DuBois
The memoirist
Dana DuBois is a memoirist and Gen X word nerd based in the Pacific Northwest. She founded I Write Out Loud, her Substack publication, where she writes across a range of subjects; parenting, music and pop culture, relationships, and feminism are her favorites. She co-hosts The Daily Whatever Show. Em dashes, Oxford commas, and well-placed semicolons make her heart happy. All stories by Dana
Lawrence Winnerman
The science fiction writer
Lawrence Winnerman is a science fiction writer in Fort Wayne, Indiana. After twenty-five years leading technology programs at Amazon and Microsoft, he was chief operating officer of Blue Amp Media. In his Substack publication, The Hinge & The Near Field, he writes about AI and democracy and is serializing his novel Light Shines Through. He co-hosts The Daily Whatever Show. All stories by Lawrence
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