“ Maniaci showed great courage and deep commitment to public service during her first term, helping to move forward and improve the job-creating, union-backed Edgewater hotel redevelopment. Maniaci is accessible, disarming, and thoughtful. She’s become a key coalition builder on the council with strong advocacy for parks, bicyclists and tenants.”
– Wisconsin State Journal aldermanic endorsement (3/27/11)
Leadership Values
BRIDGET GETS RESULTS
Bridget’s an effective leader – collaboratively building allies and delivering policy results with grace, compassion, pragmatism and efficiency while holding fast to progressive values that put people and healthy communities first over profit and value extraction.
Bridget has worked for more than 20 years as a progressive community leader, building resources to support vibrant, equitable communities in tough legislative environments.
Bridget is ready to take her commitment to action and service to Madison, where she’ll be the democratic voice District 19 has been missing.
Democracy NOW! District 19 needs a Progressive democratic representative in the Wisconsin Legislature that prioritizes our safety, economic wellbeing, and access to resources, and actually gets results.
BRIDGET SERVES YOU
As your representative, you can count on Bridget to:
- Be a Great Listener – a skill honed from thousands of hours of being an elected official and owning a small community-focused store
- Show up and positively engage at community meetings, social gatherings, and wherever decisions are being made
- Fight like hell to enact socially progressive legislation around health care, gender equity, citizen privacy protection, environmental conservation and cost of living
- Pick up the phone when you call and work with local leaders to be a productive and helpful bridge to state resources on behalf of our community
- Respecting your privacy while using your input to guide her decisions
- Give you straight answers about where she stands and what she can realistically accomplish
- Always treating you with respect, whether we agree on an issue or not
- Strong constituent casework – regardless of opinion, every resident interacting with this office should expect to get a prompt phone call, email, or written response to their inquiry or concern
- Bureaucratic Field Trips to Us! – Use the power of this position to bring state decisionmakers and agency staff to engage directly with our community – hosting meetings, social events and stakeholder gatherings
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