Campaign News
WisPolitics.com: Pasch Campaigning on Despite Injury
WisPolitics.com published a story about Sandy recently:
Sandy Pasch, one of 5 Democrats running in the primary for the 22nd Assembly District, says she’s done more than 1,000 doors since being sidelined for several weeks as a result of a pelvis fracture she suffered while campaigning April 27.
Since May 22, Pasch said she's had volunteers and youth in need of summer jobs help push her around the North Shore Milwaukee district in a wheelchair to visit voters' homes.
Pasch said the injury, which requires a three-month recovery period, has given her a greater understanding of the difficulties people with disabilities have in getting around and how the culture is not sensitive to their needs.
“I thought I was aware,” Pasch said. “I'm so much more aware of it now.”
Pasch, a registered nurse for more than 30 years, said reforming healthcare is her top priority and an issue she hears about frequently when she talks to voters.
Shepherd Express Reports on Sandy Pasch Back on the Campaign Trail
Lisa Kaiser writes in the Shepherd Express:
Sandy Pasch Back on the Campaign TrailSandy Pasch’s campaign slogan is “Fighting for the health of our community for over 20 years.”
And that was before Pasch, nursing instructor and mental health advocate, fractured the socket part of her hip from a fall while campaigning door to door for the 22nd Assembly District. She now has a metal plate in her hip and is in the midst of a three-month recovery process. But the Democratic candidate is still campaigning up to six hours a day, with the help of some dedicated volunteers who push her wheelchair and help her to doors on her crutches...

