Progressive Dane

Progressive Dane
AbbreviationProDane or PD
Co-ChairBrenda Konkel
TreasurerMartha Kemble
Founded1992; 32 years ago (1992)
Preceded byNew Party
IdeologyProgressivism
Political positionLeft
Madison Common Council[1]
7 / 20
Dane County Board of Supervisors[1]
5 / 37
Madison School Board[1]
0 / 7
Website
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Progressive Dane (ProDane or PD) is a progressive political party in Dane County, Wisconsin. ProDane formed in fall 1992, as a chapter of the New Party, which dissolved in 1998.

ProDane focuses near-exclusively on local elections. ProDane routinely wins seats on the Dane County Board of Supervisors, the Madison Common Council, the Mayor of Madison the Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education, and the Fitchburg Common Council.

All of these entities have non-partisan elections, with no party primaries and no party names on ballots. Thus, while Progressive Dane organizes itself as a political party, and attempts to elect ProDane candidates, its candidates can also be endorsed by the Democrats and/or Greens.[2] In some elections, ProDane has worked with Democrats[2] and with Greens.[3] This is similar to the electoral fusion strategy of the New Party[2] and the Richmond Progressive Alliance.

ProDane holds regular Progressive Caucus meetings with its elected officials.[2]

Notable electeds include mayor Dave Cieslewicz and mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway.

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