What is LeaderEthics-Wisconsin?

 LeaderEthics –Wisconsin is a non-partisan/non-profit organization dedicated to promoting integrity in the American  Democracy through ethical leadership practices among elected officials. Ethical leaders are:

1. Truthful.
2. Transparent with public information.
3. Unifiers rather than dividers, and
4. Willing to represent the collective interests of their constituency.

     Pay It Forward in Politics?

 "We don't know whether elected officials (or anyone else for that matter) will use these examples as a reason to do   the right thing for someone else. Yet, over time, the practice  of paying it forward does have a measurable positive impact."

                               published in the La Crosse Tribune 12-26-21, Link: La Crosse Tribune, Pay It Forward

 "Gerrymandered districts when coupled with a climate of hyper-partisanship is a deadly combination for the    integrity of the American democracy."

  published in the La Crosse Tribune 11-28-21 Link: The Gerrymander Dance

 The Third Congressional District Race Should Get The Third Degree...an  editorial in the La Crosse Tribune, 10-24-21

 "If we are committed to demanding ethical leadership in the 3rd Congressional District, the third  degree is warranted in the 2020 election"  

Link: The Third Degree

Common Ground Is Higher Ground...an editorial in the La Crosse Tribune, 9-26-2021

 "Think about how much more powerful this could have been if Congressional members could work  together on behalf of the people of Wisconsin and the country in doing what they were elected to  do."      

  Link: Common Ground Is Higher Ground

 Final-Five Voting in Wisconsin...an Open Dialogue

 Available via live-stream on the Facebook pages of LeaderEthics-Wisconsin, Democracy  Found and the Chippewa Herald.

 Preview: Final-Five Voting in Wisconsin

 Hyper-partisanship Must End for the Good of the Country

 "How can we expect good results using a playbook with half the pages missing?"

  An editorial on WIZM Radio. Link: As I See It

 Chipping Away at the Wall

 "Bipartisanship isn’t pretty. It is built on trust. It can be hard to sustain because trust is fragile."  

                                     La Crosse Tribune 8/1/21 link: Chipping Away at the Wall

 Is Ethical Leadership Possible?

 "If we, as citizens, value these characteristics and strive to conduct ourselves accordingly we  can  expect the same from our elected leaders. Leaders who attempt to demonstrate these characteristics  deserve our vote."

                              link: Is Ethical Leadership Possible?

 Final-Five Voting in Wisconsin

 Journalist, Tom Milbourn, led a conversation with panelists Sara Eskrich, Austin  Ramirez and  Rep. Joel Kitchens regarding the Final-Five Voting legislation being  considered in Wisconsin.

 link: WXOW Final-Five Voting

Representative or Partisan

"As voters, are we able to support the concept of a representative government as the American founders intended. Are we satisfied (or dissatisfied) with the outcomes of government? And do we vote accordingly for our elected representatives? Or are we caught up in the partisan conflict and surrender our vote to political party leaders? Do we expected elected officials to represent us...or handpicked        political party leaders? The question remains, as citizens and voters, what do we expect?"

Editorial published in the La crosse Tribune, June 6, 2021 Link: Representative or Partisan

Debating the Facets of Hell

 "If leaders contribute to the structural conflict, or fail to take steps to address the  conflict, the  conflict  will grow, often uncontrollably. In other words, all hell breaks  loose. And in the resulting  debate, we  can find ourselves arguing over the symptoms of the conflict, essentially 'debating  the facets of hell'. There may be little dialog about how we got here and, more importantly, how we move out of this  dynamic."  Lee Rasch

Editorial published in the La Crosse Tribune, May 2, 2021 La Crosse Tribune, May 2, 2021

 Our Electoral Process...a Vicious Cycle

 "While in a vicious cycle, we are not protecting the status quo...rather we are protecting the  worsening  of the situation".

 Published in the La Crosse Tribune, April 11, 2021 link to article

 Rep. Steve Doyle and former Rep. Lee Nerison selected as the  2021 LeaderEthics Award recipients

  WKBT -  LeaderEthics Award Recipients

The La Crosse Tribune Endorses Final Five Voting in Wisconsin

LeaderEthics-Wisconsin is pleased to see support for Democracy Found and the bipartisan-sponsored bill...Final Five Voting. As stated in the editorial by Lee Rasch, "We believe this is a serious effort designed to curtail the hyper-partisanship we are seeing in politics today."

March 21, 2010  Final Five Voting Deserves Support

 Caught in the Vortex of Misinformation

 Many believe we are in an infodemic, as misinformation on social  media becomes  a greater  influence. Published in the March 7, 2021  issue of the La Crosse  Tribune. 

Caught in the Vortex of Misinformation

Change Starts With Our Expectations

In the January 31, 2021 issue of the La Crosse Tribune, Lee Rasch discusses the importance of establishing expectations for ethical leadership.

Change Starts With Our Expectations

Becoming a Candidate on an Ethical Leadership Platform

 "We need to expect ethical leadership from elected officials. It's as applicable in politics as it  is in business, education, healthcare or any other area."...Lee Rasch        

                                            WKBT News 8000 video, ethical leadership 

 Local candidates asked to show ethical leadership

 LeaderEthics-Wisconsin announces the release of the video, "Becoming a  Candidate on an  Ethical Leadership Platform"

WXOW ethical leadership video

 It's Never Too Late to Recognize the Right Thing

 In this La Crosse Tribune editorial, the focus is on recognizing ethical leadership in practice  as a way of  encouraging elected officials to consider "doing the right thing".

 Inspired Minds Podcast: LeaderEthics-Wisconsin

 Lee Rasch is engaged in a conversation with Sam Scinta, President and Founder of IM  Education, and Rick  Kyte, Director of the DB Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership at  Viterbo University.

Inspired Minds Podcast

 Disinformation on Social Media

 Lee Rasch is interviewed by Tyler Job of WKBT regarding concerns about disinformation    in social media  in advance of the November 3rd election.  Link:Disinformation on Social Media

Bipartisanship is more than just splitting the difference

Lee Rasch provided a guest editorial in the La Crosse Tribune.

Link: La Crosse Tribune Editorial

 Bipartisan Ethics

 The release of the 2020 Citizen's Guide 2.0 is announced. WXOW October 6, 2020, link: bipartisan    message

 Resources to Fight Misinformation

  WKBT News8000 October 6, 2020, link: helpful resources

 The Cap Times Max Witynski & Jessica Christoffer - Wisconsin Watch

 "One Answer is to avoid liking or sharing suspicious or inflammatory content, according to Lee Rasch, the  executive director of LeaderEthics-Wisconsin, a La Crosse, Wisconsin-based nonprofit that promotes  integrity in American democracy."  Wisconsin Watch - Cap Times 

Ethical Leadership Podcast - LeaderEthics-Wisconsin

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/25850600

 A Big Breath of Fresh Air

 A guest editorial was written by Lee Rasch supporting the announcement of the SafeVote  Wisconsin  Coalition...a bipartisan effort to promote safe opportunities to vote in Wisconsin  elections during the  pandemic. - La Crosse Tribune 7/26/20 A Big Breath of Fresh Air

 An Ethical Approach to Leadership

  "Leadership" and "Ethics." Putting those words together in the same sentence may seem  like an oxymoron or a contradiction in terms given today's political climate.

 http://www.leaderethicswi.org/Presentations/Articles/

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