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Representative Robyn Vining is a pastor, community leader, and longtime Moms Demand Action volunteer running for Senate District 05. Vining grew up in Ohio, Texas, and Virginia before making Wisconsin her home, giving her decades of experience in reaching across the aisle to find common ground with neighbors. As a sitting assemblymember, Vining prioritizes bipartisan collaboration, community safety, and gun violence prevention. A member of the Wisconsin Gun Safety Coalition, electing Robyn Vining would position the legislature to pass fundamental gun violence prevention legislation to protect children, families, schools, and communities across the state.

Vining is in her fourth term as an Assembly representative. A fighter on issues like health care, public education and small business, she is the right candidate to represent Senate District 5.

One of those people is State Rep. Robyn Vining. Vining was the first Democrat to flip a seat under gerrymandered maps when she won an extremely close race in 2018, and she’s now won re-election three more times since then, and is now running to be the next state senator to represent District 5, located in Milwaukee’s western suburbs.

Vining is a terrific candidate and wonderful person, and has been a fighter on issues like health care, public education and small business in her time in the Assembly. With a win on Nov. 3, she could help flip the Senate for Democrats for the first time in 16 years. Robyn Vining would be a outstanding state senator and has our endorsement.

(spouse of an Illinois Federation of Teachers member)