Voters and Supporters Gather to Kick-Off Christian Phelps for Assembly District 93 Campaign
Approximately 80 individuals gathered at the Chippewa Valley Museum on Saturday, May 4 to celebrate and kick off Christian Phelps’s campaign for Assembly District 93. Former Eau Claire Area School Board President Chris Hambuch-Boyle and Eau Claire City Council Member At-Large Kate Felton co-hosted the event. State Representative Francesca Hong of Madison also spoke at the event. All three are among the many community leaders endorsing Phelps’s candidacy for the 93rd Assembly District.
Kate Felton welcomed guests: “I personally want to say how much immense responsibility I’m feeling, not only to elect Democrats but to elect the kind of Democrats who fully understand their values, can lean into their values and the values of their district; who can start on day one,” Felton said. “That is why I’m absolutely so thrilled to be supporting Christian. … I know him to be somebody who is absolutely clear on his values and his morality, and has dedicated his life and his career to policy change and to making Wisconsin better.”
“We need leaders that understand the power of their platform and how to use it in a way that the children will feel empowered to be themselves,” said Christian Phelps. “Fantastic legislators like Francesca have been working so hard to keep us from the brink. … It is our shared responsibility to meet this moment now that we have a chance to finally start crawling back. And we have a plan to do it.”
“We deserve to choose hope,” Rep. Hong said. “We deserve to choose and have a better community for all of us and our kids. … I don’t know of a better individual, a better human, a better champion for community than Christian.”
“I’ve been working professionally at, in many cases, the legislative level,” said Christian Phelps, “to follow policy as it relates to education, but also other issues, personally. Because that story of standing up for our shared values and then meeting a brick wall of opposition in Madison is the story of many issues facing our community right now.”
Phelps was born and raised in Eau Claire and graduated from Memorial High School in 2012. He holds a master’s degree in journalism and has worked in public education, journalism, and nonprofit organizing, currently as communications director for Wisconsin Public Education Network. He also serves on the steering committee of Support Eau Claire Public Schools and is a trustee on the board of the Eau Claire Public Schools Foundation.