08/24/2009 Lt. Governor Lawton galvanizes health care advocates to push for health insurance reform
8/28/2009
Monday, August 24, 2009 Lt. Governor Lawton discusses critical role for arts organizations in economic downturns at the Arts in Crisis Symposium
Lt. Governor Lawton spoke Monday at the Overture Center’s Arts in Crisis Symposium, a program sponsored by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts that engaged
participants in identifying strategies to sustain arts organizations during this economic crisis.
Left) Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser, Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton and Overture Center President Tom Carto.
As chair of the Wisconsin Arts Board, Lt. Governor Lawton spoke to the program’s 300 attendees about the importance of including arts in the definition of “infrastructure” in a 21st century global economy. Lawton noted that the arts and culture industry is both green and a key to sustainability – sustaining our culture and renewing our capacity for creativity when it is needed more than ever to drive entrepreneurship and imagining and designing a green future.
“Arts organization will define the way that communities bounce back from this economic downturn,” Lawton said.
“We must find ways to make them stronger and better able to support themselves by imagining unprecedented partnerships.”
Lt. Governor Lawton welcomed Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser to Wisconsin, one stop on his 50-state tour. Kaiser discussed the challenges that arts organizations face in a climate of reduced philanthropy and offered best practices for fundraising, budgeting and marketing.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Lt. Governor Lawton galvanizes Door County health care advocates to push for health insurance reform
Lt. Governor Lawton encouraged patients and health care advocates to push for better health care Wednesday evening at the “Northeast Wisconsin Women Speak Out for Health Care Reform” event in Sturgeon Bay. The event was sponsored by the Wellness Center of Door County, a non-profit family planning organization serving Door and 
Kewaunee Counties.
Pictured left) Wellness Center of Door County Director Michele Geiger-Bronsky, Lt. Governor Lawton, and Wellness Center Medical Director and OB/GYN Kimberly Winburn.
The event provided a forum for Door County women to share their personal struggles with the health care system. Although women make the majority of their family’s medical decisions, they often suffer the severest gaps in care. She noted that a recent World Health Organization study ranked the United States 37th out of 130 countries for women’s health and survival.
Lt. Governor Lawton described how the current health care system is failing America’s families and asked the women in attendance to rally around comprehensive health insurance reform that includes universal access to affordable care and cost 
cutting measures for Wisconsin families and small businesses. She urged audience members to take action by contacting their member of Congress to demand an overhaul of the health care system.
Left) Lt. Governor Lawton and Sara Finger, President of the Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health.
