Dear Senator Johnson, I am writing as your constituent in the Town of Oregon to ask you to use your chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and its Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to investigate Donald Trump Jr.'s business dealings and possible conflicts of interest. You have used this committee before to examine the business dealings of a president's family member, when you investigated Hunter Biden. Congressional oversight only has credibility if it holds every administration to the same standard. Wisconsinites deserve to know that federal power is used for the public good and not for the private gain of anyone connected to the president. I ask that you commit to holding a hearing or opening a subcommittee inquiry into these matters, and I would appreciate a reply explaining what you will do. I vote, and I am following how you use your oversight authority on this issue. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Senator Baldwin, Thank you for speaking out about possible election interference by the Trump administration, and for your work to secure federal elections. That includes your new bill to prohibit federal funds from being used to deploy Department of Homeland Security or National Guard personnel at or near polling places, and your cosponsorship of legislation to prohibit interference in federal elections. I am writing to ask you to take the next step. As a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, you are in a position to write this prohibition directly into must-pass funding. Please attach the language of your polling place bill to any spending measure that moves this fall, including a continuing resolution, and force a floor vote if leadership tries to block it. A funding condition does more to protect voters than a bill that may never get a hearing. With the election weeks away, Wisconsin voters, including my community in Dane County, need to know they can cast their ballots free from federal intimidation. Please let me know whether you will commit to offering this amendment. Constituents like me will stand behind you. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Representative Pocan, I am a constituent in the Town of Oregon. Congratulations on your primary win in August. Thank you for cosponsoring the bill to extend the ban on foreign money in our elections to domestic companies that are foreign-controlled, foreign-influenced, or foreign-owned. That bill shows you understand how money can corrupt our democracy. I have one specific request. Please lead a public sign-on letter calling for a congressional investigation into Donald Trump Jr.'s corruption and conflicts of interest, and press House Oversight to take it up. Conflicts of interest inside the president's family are the same threat your bill addresses, and they sit even closer to federal power. As a senior member of Appropriations and a founder of the Progressive Caucus, you are well placed to rally colleagues and keep public pressure on. Would you commit to leading or signing such a letter in the next two weeks? I would welcome a reply telling me what step you plan to take. Please know that your constituents support you in fighting hard on this. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Attorney General Kaul, I am writing as a constituent in the Town of Oregon to thank you for your service and to ask you to take a concrete step before the November election. I saw that you visited Wausau this month to talk about the upcoming election and privacy issues. I'm grateful you are raising these concerns in public, and I hope you will turn them into action. Specifically, I ask that you publicly commit to using the full authority of the Department of Justice to protect Wisconsin's election from federal interference. That means issuing clear legal guidance to municipal clerks before ballots go out, making it plain that the state will defend them. It also means joining or leading multistate litigation against any federal effort to seize voter data, intimidate election workers, or undermine mail voting. Your office is one of the few in Wisconsin that can actually take federal overreach to court. Please let me know whether you will commit to issuing that guidance to clerks before November. Constituents like me will stand with you if you fight harder. 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 position as Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to hold a public oversight hearing on the recent DHS whistleblower report and the latest fatal ICE shooting. Your committee and its Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations exist for exactly this kind of oversight. Whether it happens is your decision. In May you cosponsored the resolution designating National Police Week. I believe honoring law enforcement also means holding it to the law. When a whistleblower inside the department raises misconduct and a person has died, Congress should get answers under oath. An independent investigation and public testimony from DHS and ICE leadership are the minimum. Here in Dane County and across Wisconsin, immigrant families work on our farms and are part of our communities. Right now many of them are afraid. Due process protects every one of us, citizens included. I respectfully ask you to commit to scheduling this hearing and calling DHS and ICE leadership to testify. I vote in every election, and I will be following your committee's actions on this issue closely. Thank you for your attention. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Senator Baldwin, I am a constituent in the Town of Oregon, and I want to thank you for introducing your bill to stop the administration from sending ICE and the National Guard to polling places. It shows you understand how immigration enforcement is being turned against our democracy and our communities. I am writing with one request. Please lead a public oversight letter demanding Senate hearings on the recent DHS whistleblower report about ICE misconduct, and place holds on DHS nominees until those hearings are scheduled. You recently got commitments from HHS nominees to restore the Press 3 service for LGBTQ+ youth, which shows how well you can use your leverage over nominees. The latest fatal ICE shooting makes an independent investigation and real accountability urgent, and our immigrant neighbors in Dane County are watching to see whether anyone in Congress will act. Please commit to taking these steps publicly in the next two weeks, and let me know what you decide. You have strong support here at home for fighting harder 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 want to thank you for your long record of defending immigrant families. I am writing to ask you to take a concrete next step: please lead a public sign-on letter calling for oversight hearings on the DHS whistleblower report exposing ICE misconduct, and for an independent investigation into the latest fatal ICE shooting. As a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, you have real power over the department's budget. Please use that seat to make continued ICE funding depend on transparency, independent review of deaths during enforcement actions, and respect for due process. Public statements matter, but the leverage your office holds can actually produce accountability. Immigrant families in Dane County are our neighbors, and many of them are living in fear right now. Please let me know whether you will lead this letter, and please keep constituents informed about what the oversight effort turns up. Many of us will stand behind you if you push 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 service to Wisconsin. I am writing with one specific request. Please issue an executive order that bars state agencies, staff, and resources from assisting federal civil immigration enforcement unless there is a judicial warrant. Please also state publicly that Wisconsin will not help with unlawful federal actions. This month you marked 9/11 with a day of service at Kettle Moraine State Forest. That day honored the idea that Wisconsinites take care of one another, and our immigrant neighbors belong in that promise. A recent DHS whistleblower report raised serious concerns about ICE misconduct, and another fatal ICE shooting has made families in Dane County afraid to go about their daily lives. Due process and basic dignity should not depend on whether state resources are quietly used for federal enforcement. You are not seeking re-election, which gives you a rare chance to act boldly on principle, and constituents like me will stand behind you. I would be grateful to hear whether you will commit to this step and when. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Attorney General Kaul, I am writing as your constituent in the Town of Oregon, Dane County, to thank you for defending Wisconsin, most recently by joining the multistate lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service. I am asking you to take one more specific step. Please publicly commit that the Wisconsin Department of Justice will independently investigate any shooting by federal immigration agents in Wisconsin, holding them to the same standard it applies to local police. You have spoken publicly about how shootings by police should be investigated, and you have called for tighter guidelines on license plate readers. Both show you understand that enforcement power needs accountability. That principle should apply equally to federal agents. A DHS whistleblower report and recent fatal ICE shootings in other states make it clear that Wisconsin should act before a tragedy happens here, not after. Immigrant families in Dane County are our neighbors, and they deserve due process and equal protection under the law. I respectfully ask that you announce this commitment within the next 30 days, and I would appreciate a reply on whether your office will do so. Many constituents like me will support you if you take this stand. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear County Executive Agard, I am a constituent in the Town of Oregon. Thank you for your leadership, and for speaking publicly after the Madison police-involved shooting in July. I am writing to ask you to put dedicated funding for legal representation for immigrant residents facing deportation into your 2027 executive budget proposal. Immigrant families in Dane County are frightened right now. There has been another fatal ICE shooting, and a DHS whistleblower report has raised serious concerns about misconduct inside ICE. People facing removal who have a lawyer have a much better chance at a fair hearing. Due process should not depend on whether a family can afford an attorney, and families should not be separated because no one was there to defend them. Statements matter, but the county budget is the strongest tool your office has to protect our neighbors. Please commit publicly to including this funding in your proposal this fall. Residents across the county will support you in doing it, and I will follow up once the budget is released. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Sheriff Barrett, I am writing as a constituent in the Town of Oregon to respectfully ask you to publicly commit, in a written and published jail policy, that the Dane County Jail will not hold anyone on an ICE detainer or share release information with ICE unless there is a signed judicial warrant. I read your recent piece on why the Sheriff's Office needs sustained investments, and I saw that the office received new grant funding for patrols. Community safety depends on trust. When immigrant neighbors fear that any contact with a deputy could lead to deportation, they stop reporting crimes and stop cooperating as witnesses, and everyone in Dane County is less safe as a result. With national concern growing over ICE misconduct, including a recent fatal shooting and a DHS whistleblower report, Dane County residents need a clear public guarantee of due process. I would welcome a reply confirming whether you will adopt and publish this policy. 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 to thank you and to ask for one specific action. Please use your seat on the Appropriations Committee to block any funding cuts or policy riders that would push our national parks, including Yosemite, toward privatization or treat them as revenue-generating assets instead of protected public land. I was grateful to see you join colleagues in August to demand that the EPA drop its efforts to weaken PFAS drinking water protections. I was also glad to see the Education Department bill you backed advance to the full Senate. Both show you are willing to push back on harmful rollbacks. Letters and statements matter, but the decisions that protect public lands are made in spending bills. That is where your seniority on Appropriations gives you real power. This is personal for Wisconsin. The Ice Age National Scenic Trail runs through Dane County, and families across our state count on the National Park Service to protect places like the Apostle Islands. I respectfully ask that you publicly commit to opposing any Interior spending provision that cuts park funding or opens our parks to privatization, and that you share how you plan to fight for this in committee. Please know that your constituents 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 a constituent in the Town of Oregon, and I want to thank you for your recent radio address celebrating National Clean Energy Week and highlighting Wisconsin's clean energy efforts. Your leadership on this issue matters to families like mine in Dane County. I am writing with one specific request. Before your term ends, please sign an executive order directing the DNR and other state agencies to make Wisconsin's clean energy and climate commitments permanent parts of how they plan, permit, and spend. You have said there is unfinished business as your tenure winds down. With federal environmental protections being rolled back, a durable state commitment is one of the most important things you can leave behind. A strong executive action would protect our air, water, and public lands, help hold down energy costs, and support clean energy jobs here in Wisconsin. Please act boldly. Constituents will stand behind you. I would be grateful to hear whether you will commit to this step, and when. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Attorney General Kaul, Thank you for your work defending Wisconsinites against federal overreach. I am writing as a constituent in the Town of Oregon to ask you to publicly commit to joining or leading multistate lawsuits against unlawful federal rollbacks of environmental protections and public lands, including efforts to privatize national parks or treat them as revenue-generating assets instead of protected public land. Wisconsin's public lands, from the Apostle Islands and the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway to the Ice Age Trail through Dane County, belong to everyone. So do the clean air and clean water protections that keep our communities healthy. When federal agencies ignore the law, your office holds one of the most powerful tools we have to stop them, and your seat on the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands gives you direct insight into why public land must stay public. I respectfully ask that you announce, within the next month, what legal action your office will take on these rollbacks. Many of us will stand behind you if you take a bold stand. I would appreciate a reply on your plans. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Senator Johnson, I am your constituent in the Town of Oregon, and I am writing to ask you to protect SNAP funding in the Farm Bill. Please vote against any Farm Bill or spending package that cuts SNAP benefits or narrows eligibility. In Wisconsin, SNAP is known as FoodShare, and it keeps groceries on the table for working families, seniors, children, and people with disabilities. Cutting it does not make need go away. It pushes the burden onto food pantries, schools, and local governments. FoodShare dollars are also spent at Wisconsin grocers and farmers markets, which supports the farmers and rural communities the Farm Bill is meant to help. You have a vote on the Senate floor and a voice in how federal dollars are spent. I urge you to use both to keep SNAP whole, and I would appreciate a reply stating your position on SNAP funding in the upcoming Farm Bill. 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, I am writing as your constituent in the Town of Oregon to thank you for your work defending health care. I am also asking you to go further. Please publicly commit to vote against any Farm Bill or appropriations package that cuts SNAP benefits or eligibility, and use your senior seat on the Appropriations Committee to keep those cuts out of spending bills. Your recent record shows you understand what is at stake. You cosponsored legislation to expand Medicaid home and community-based services and strengthen the direct care workforce, and you backed a resolution to overturn the new CMS prior authorization rule. Food assistance deserves the same fight. In Dane County and across Wisconsin, SNAP helps working families, seniors, and people with disabilities put food on the table, and it supports local grocers and Wisconsin farmers. Please make a public commitment before the Farm Bill vote and tell constituents what steps you will take, whether through amendments, floor votes, or your Appropriations role. I would welcome a reply describing your plan. Constituents are behind you if you fight hard on this. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Representative Pocan, I am your constituent in the Town of Oregon. Thank you for your consistent support of working families. I am writing with one specific request. Please publicly commit to voting against any Farm Bill that cuts SNAP funding, and lead a sign-on letter with your colleagues making clear that protecting SNAP is non-negotiable. SNAP is one of our most effective defenses against hunger. It helps children, seniors, and people with disabilities in Dane County and across Wisconsin, and the money it brings in supports local grocers and farmers. Cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, and disability and senior benefits would hurt people who are already struggling. They would also weaken the rural and farm economies the Farm Bill is supposed to strengthen. You are a senior member of the Appropriations Committee and a co-founder of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, so you are in a strong position to organize opposition before any harmful deal moves forward. I would appreciate a reply telling me what steps you will take, and when. Please know that your constituents support you in fighting hard on this. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Governor Evers, I am a constituent in the Town of Oregon. Thank you for your steady defense of health care and food assistance for Wisconsin families. I am writing to ask you to issue an executive order that directs the Department of Health Services to protect every eligible Wisconsinite enrolled in BadgerCare and FoodShare as new federal rules take effect. These federal changes add paperwork burdens and shift costs to the states. Red tape pushes eligible people off coverage and benefits. Your administration controls how Wisconsin carries out these rules. DHS can use every available exemption, check eligibility automatically with data the state already holds, and make sure no one loses benefits without clear notice and real help. In Dane County, rural families, seniors, and people with disabilities depend on these programs, and local food pantries cannot fill the gap alone. I respectfully ask that you commit to directing DHS to release a public plan this fall to prevent avoidable coverage and benefit losses, and that you use your veto and budget authority to guard these programs. Please know that your constituents support you in fighting as hard as you can. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Governor Evers, I'm writing as a constituent in the Town of Oregon, Dane County, to thank you for your service and to ask you to take a concrete step before your term ends. Please publicly commit to making the full reauthorization and funding of the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program, along with an end to the Joint Finance Committee's anonymous holds on conservation purchases, a must-pass priority for your final months in office. Knowles-Nelson is Wisconsin's flagship conservation program. It funds the public lands, parks, trails, and habitat that families here in Dane County depend on for clean water, recreation, and a healthy local economy. Its bonding authority has been allowed to lapse and shrink, and anonymous holds let an unnamed legislator block individual purchases without any public accountability. Both problems threaten a program that Wisconsinites of every political stripe value. Your office holds real leverage: the budget, the veto pen, including Wisconsin's strong partial veto, and direction of the DNR. I urge you to use them boldly and to announce a specific plan and timeline this fall. Many constituents stand behind you on this, and I would welcome a reply on the steps you intend to take. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Attorney General Kaul, I am a constituent from the Town of Oregon in Dane County, and I want to thank you for your work defending Wisconsin against unlawful federal actions. I am writing to ask you to bring that same energy to protecting the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program. Specifically, I ask that you use the Department of Justice's authority, including a formal legal opinion, to publicly challenge the Joint Finance Committee's use of anonymous holds to block individual conservation purchases. Knowles-Nelson is Wisconsin's flagship land-conservation program. It has funded public land, parks, trails, and wildlife habitat for decades. Its bonding authority has been allowed to shrink, and anonymous objections have stopped purchases with no public accountability. As a member of the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands, you know how much Wisconsin's public land matters to future generations. Families in Dane County depend on the parks, trails, and clean water this program protects. I would be grateful to know what concrete step your office will take this fall, and I will follow up. Constituents like me will support you in taking a bold stand. Sincerely, Elizabeth Nitz 6214 Knollwood Dr, Oregon, WI 53575

Dear Secretary Godlewski, I am writing as a constituent in the Town of Oregon, Dane County, to thank you for your commitment to Wisconsin's public lands. I am also asking you to lead the fight to fully reauthorize and fund the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program, and to end the Joint Finance Committee's use of anonymous holds to block conservation purchases. Knowles-Nelson is how Wisconsin has protected parks, trails, forests, and wildlife habitat for generations. Its bonding authority has been allowed to shrink. Individual land purchases have been stopped by anonymous objections, so the public never learns who blocked them or why. That is bad conservation policy and bad government. Families in Dane County and across the state lose access to land that belongs to all of us. As a member of the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands, you hold one of the few statewide seats that directly shapes how public land is managed. I respectfully ask you to commit to a concrete, public step before the next budget cycle. For example, you could use your BCPL role and your platform to publicly back full reauthorization and to call for ending anonymous JFC holds. Please let me know what action you plan to take. I would welcome a reply so I can follow up. 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 a constituent to ask that you fully reauthorize and fund the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program and end the use of anonymous holds on conservation projects at the Joint Committee on Finance. As co-chair of that committee, you have direct power over both, and your leadership would settle the issue. For decades, Knowles-Nelson has protected public land, parks, trails, and habitat across Wisconsin, with support from both parties. Letting its bonding authority shrink or lapse threatens the outdoor places that Wisconsin families, hunters, anglers, and local economies depend on, including here in Dane County. Anonymous holds make things worse. They let a single unnamed legislator block a purchase that communities have worked for, with no public explanation and no accountability. I ask you to commit to a full reauthorization of Knowles-Nelson in the Joint Finance Committee and to ending anonymous holds, so that any objection to a project is made on the public record. I vote in your district, and I will be following your actions on this issue closely. Thank you for your time and consideration. 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