Chairman’s Report, 2025

By Andrew Zuelke

Chairman, Constitution Party of Wisconsin

 

 

Constitution Party of Wisconsin – Help Us Grow!

Here are ways you can help the party grow in 2026. Follow along on your lists and you can take the list with you. I marked in bold print what you can do in your homes. In no order

1) Pray for us. Though God doesn’t need political parties, pray for our officers and members that we can bring others to our cause of constitutional restrictions and restoring the Moral Order, and field more candidates.

2) Visit our website at least once a week. We have new articles posted each week, and it helps to show increased traffic on our site.

3) Tell family and friends they can request a free, no obligation information packet. Assure them that after they receive the packet, we will not bombard them with calls or pressure to join. It is no obligation. But let them know we urge them to contact us at 608-561-7996 or chairman@constitutionpartyofwisconsin.com with any questions they may have.

4) Keep in touch with the party. This is for members and non-members. Find out from us about upcoming party events, when your membership is up for renewal and renew promptly, who to contact. In your part of the state, how to get flyers and other party literature to give out to those interested in the party.

5) Become a member or an associate. Full members can serve in offices and on committees in the party and vote on party issues. Being an associate or a Friend of the Party is for those who want to get their feet wet, so to speak, before committing to membership. To be an associate is basically a one-time, annual $20 donation to the party. I always encourage people to read our platform, do their own research, and learn more about us.

6) Attend our events. Members and non-members are welcome. Not just the convention, but other party events. Not all events involve a registration fee, and we will be hosting more events around Wisconsin next year. Get to know each other.

7) The Local Initiative. This one will involve going out of the house and attending meetings. This is great for retirees or those who work first shift. The Local Initiative involves people getting on non-elected boards and committees. In their local areas. For example, Board of Zoning Appeals, Parks commissions, Cable TV committees, community appearance teams, Board of Planning for cities, villages and counties, in some cases even school boards. You don’t have to be a party member to do this.

These boards have real power, and some even have their own budgets. Democrats get their people on these local boards and committees to influence local and regional politics. We need to do the same.

Here is the beauty of these boards and committees. They are not elected offices, so you don’t need to “mount a campaign” and go door to door or print up flyers and put ads in the paper. Many times, you will find there are people who want to step off these boards, but there’s no one to replace them.

What you do is go to your alderman, county or township supervisor and say, “I’m looking to do more in the community. Are there any openings on boards or committees?” They will take your name to the next city council or other meeting and vote you in.

If you are looking to run for office, being appointed to these boards or committees is a good way to pad a campaign resume and show voters that you have some political experience at meetings and that you want to be involved. You can find out more about Agenda 21 and smart growth in your area and what’s being done to violate private property rights and local control.

8) Run for local offices.  December is coming up, and for City Council, Township boards, county and school boards, December is often the month where signature collection happens.  Many times, depending on the size of the district you are running for, you may only need 25 to 50 signatures.  The elected clerk can tell you what papers you will need and how to fill them out, and we can also offer you advice.  There are times some offices have no candidate take up papers and that respective board sends out calls for people to “apply” for the vacant office and does interviews to “hire” a board member.  Other times, there are local offices where the current candidate is unopposed.

9) Write letters to the editor.  Make sure to follow that paper’s guidelines and word limits and keep your letter as short as possible, and double-check for typos.  This does make publication more likely.  Try and get your letters published in papers which own other papers where they may run your letter in all the papers they own.  Even in this day and age, there are still some papers which, even if they have a website, they don’t have social media posts, so you don’t have to worry about multiple ignorant people who hate your views negatively commenting on your letter.  So, unless they write an actual letter to the editor, your letter will go “unopposed.”  Try to get published there.

10) Write a letter to the editor for candidate endorsements.  Do these things:

1. Contact the candidate to send you some “talking points” you can use in your article, even if you change the wording a little differently.
2. Remember there is early voting, so make sure you send your letter to the paper weeks before the early voting period.
3. Papers have deadlines like “two weeks before” or “one week before” the election, after which they don’t publish campaign editorials.

11) Members, send us article ideas or write up an article for the papers to publish.

12) Become a monthly or annual donor to the Constitution Party of Wisconsin.  You can donate on our website with a credit card under the tab TAKE ACTION.  If you want to donate, say $5, but don’t want to go to our website or write a check each month, make a one-time annual donation of $60 with the note “monthly donations” in the comments or on your check memo.  Thank you.

13) Let us know of meeting places in your area of Wisconsin.  Send us a list.  You know your backyard best and the State Committee members don’t.  Contact us about:

1. Restaurants, libraries, church parish halls, places which have meeting rooms in your town or county.
2. The names, addresses, and a contact person we can talk to
3. What they charge for the meeting room or if the room is free.
4. Whether they charge or not, how long can you have the room for.
5. What is the capacity of each room?

Hint: restaurants often charge a fee but will waive the fee if everyone coming to your event orders from the restaurant’s menu.

The purpose of this idea is we want our party to become more visible locally, so we want to know of as many meeting places as possible.

14) Help us set up county affiliates.  The state party leaders cannot do everything or be everywhere.  Like the Democrats and Republicans, we want to have party extensions at the local levels.  We want to set up more county affiliates like we used to have.  They don’t have to meet each month, but at minimum every other month, but we would suggest they not meet in December.  We can help you set up your affiliate, give you templates of local bylaws, and get you names of those who live in your county to attend meetings.  The CPoW has the ability in our bylaws to establish county clusters, which are two or more counties “going in together” like the Dodge/Fond du Lac county cluster.

Local affiliates can find and cultivate their own candidates and host their own events, have floats in local parades, which our state party will help promote.

If you are a member and live in these areas but don’t want to be an officer, can you attend the meetings regularly and volunteer as needed?

15) Let us know about elected seat vacancies and even local unelected board and committee vacancies in your area.  Contact the CPoW and let us know if there is a vacancy coming up for an assembly, state senate, school board seat, even a city council or county board seat due to the current officeholder being promoted to the governor’s cabinet, moving out of his/her district, retiring and/or not running again, etc.  Then, if we have a member in that district, we can run a candidate in the special election for that seat.

16) Let us know of local constitutional groups, patriot groups, conservative/Christian groups in your area.  We may not know about them and let us know a) when they meet b) who to talk to about meeting details, a contact person.

17) Cultivate the core of younger members, NEXT GEN Constitutionalists.  Like a republic form of government, we need to train the next generation of leaders to be ready to step in and replace the current older leaders of our party.  The older members will be around to be a resource for the newer leaders to offer them advice, but at the end of the day, we need a fresh infusion of young people trained to be party officers and county chairmen.  To that end, I want to call on us to create the NEXT GEN Constitutionalists.  This will be for party members who are between 18 and 30 (or 35) who will have their own State Committee approved group within the party.

18) Volunteers needed.  Contact us if you have an interest in being appointed by the Chairman to a) fill a vacancy on the State Committee, b) serve. On the standing committee, c) donate auction items or d) help with an event.

These are just some of the ideas we want to present to you to help us grow our party so you have a constitutional alternative to turn to when both parties fail you and go south on the issues we care about, including constitutional defense.

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