I sent the following email to Mayor Dave’s campaign staff yesterday regarding the Soglin attendance at Saturday’s Zombie Walk and the pledge Soglin made toward better integration of the Differently Animated in the City of Madison:

To the Campaign of Mayor Dave Cieslewicz:

As you are no doubt aware, yesterday a heavily publicized ‘Zombie Walk Against Governor Walker’ was held in downtown Madison, and the Zombie Community came out in force to support collective bargaining rights and in opposition to the divisive agenda of Governor Walker. (For more information on the Walk, you can see our writeup at http://zombierightscampaign.org/blog/?p=2016)

Your rival candidate in the upcoming mayoral election, Paul Soglin, attended the Zombie Walk and spent considerable time conversing with his Zombie fellow citizens and addressing their concerns. Spontaneously he also announced his support for adding the Undead in general and Zombies in particular to the city’s Equal Opportunities ordinance, calling for a long-overdue revision of existing policy. You can see our coverage of these remarks as well as video of Soglin’s commitment on the record at: http://zombierightscampaign.org/blog/?p=2019

Our question, as representatives of the Undead Community, is two-fold.

One: Would Mayor Dave support this same or similar measures to aid the Zombie population of Madison and protect their civil rights?

Two: What policies or positions does Mayor Dave bring to the table that might convince a Madisonian Zombie to cast their ballot for Mayor Dave over former Mayor Soglin?

We eagerly anticipate your response to this weighty topic.

Sincerely,

John J Sears
President of The Zombie Rights Campaign

About us: The Zombie Rights Campaign is the world’s premiere advocacy organization focused on the concerns of the ‘Differently Animated’, more commonly known as Zombies, Mummies, Liches, the Reanimated Dead, etc. Based out of Madison, Wisconsin, we work tirelessly on behalf of our Differently Animated clients to advance toward a day when people are judged on the content of their character and not the presence of a heartbeat or aerobic respiration

Well, today we got a response from the campaign!

Granted, it’s not a concrete set of policy proposals, but the campaign staff for Mayor Dave did send us photographic proof that he was, in fact, at the Zombie Walk:

It’s understandable that we missed him. It was a huge event and lots of people were around at all times. We apologize for not knowing that he was in attendance; to be fair, however, the Isthmus also failed to note that Mayor Dave was at the rally.

Might I suggest next time both major candidates in an election such as this give short stump speeches on the issue of Zombie Rights? Even just fielding a question or two would be very useful. And the ZRC is always willing to sit down and present a few questions, or even arrange a quick photo opportunity, for any politician willing to dialogue about Zombie Rights.

We will continue to press both candidates in the limited time remaining for further details of their plans to work toward the benefit of with peaceable Differently Animated of Madison. Remember, however, that the election is tomorrow, and no matter who you prefer, Mayor Soglin or Mayor Dave, that both candidates were willing, at a minimum, to publicly appear at a Zombie event here in Madison and spend quality time with their Undead constituents.

In other words, we’ve got two Zombie Tolerant, hopefully even Zombie Friendly people running for office. The only way to lose is not to cast a ballot at all.

Tags: Madison Protests

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