Committee
Clancy for Assembly
Campaign Phone
4146908291
Education
BA in English, Certification in Secondary Education, Beloit College 2000; MA in Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, and Peacebuilding, California State University–Dominguez Hills 2012.
Personal Pronouns
he/him
I’ll push for progressive taxation, public education, renters’ rights and solutions to our housing crisis, improving the conditions of confinement, and fundamentally changing how we provide everything from healthcare to childcare to food.
I believe that those closest to the problem are closest to the solution. I will be effective in advocating for this change because I am a long-time organizer who grounds his policy writing in expert stakeholders and community.
As a Milwaukee County Supervisor, I authored and passed the Right to Counsel for those facing eviction and that program has been wildly successful. I have written legislation to make it a statewide program. I was one of the lead offices on the Tenant Protection Package, which has everything from small technical changes to bigger swings like allowing lock out cases to be heard in small claims court. See the details of the entire package and our housing policy here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1voyA47nGkZ5RmwbetLkoT_vbOHI7NP8rTh2uBzX0dbk/edit?usp=sharing
There needs to be a process involving a third party which does not include elected officials voting on their own maps. We should be providing the criteria for which there is broad consensus, such as being equitable and contiguous. Then entrusting redistricting to non-partisan entities.
This past session, I advocated for parity with private voucher schools who get 90-100% special education reimbursement. I believe that public schools should also be reimbursed at 90%, consistent with calls from stakeholder groups like Wisconsin Public Education Network. I was very supportive of AB 1176, championed by Rep. Cruz and Rep. Phelps.
I also authored AB 1209, which would move the onus of public school funding from property taxes, which is inherently inequitable. This would now pay for schools through an income tax on the highest earners and increases the corporate tax rate.
I was an author on the data center moratorium and generally voted against any TIF/TIDS that were not involved in funding community improvement projects (housing, sidewalks, etc.) I will continue to dig into the details of any proposal that seems to put corporate interests over the needs of regular community members.
Committee
Friends of Bridget for Wisconsin
Education
M.S. Public Policy & Managment (Urban & Regional Economic Development) - Carnegie Mellon. B.A. Political Science & Economics - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Personal Pronouns
she/her
My priority is to improve the amount of operating funds and governing autonomy Milwaukee receives from state funding, especially through shared revenue and statutory authority. Milwaukee needs good coordination and additional state funds to solve its road conditions, overburdened storm water infrastructure, and to comprehensively replace lead pipes all within the next 10 years.
I've served two terms as an Alderperson, managing significant legislative approvals for complex public funding sources for municipal public works projects.
From firsthand experience: Improving access to women's health care. Ensuring reproductive health rights are enshrined in state law, expanding IVF and HRT coverage, requiring maternity crash carts in hospitals.
The availability of moderately priced housing - for both apartments and owner-occupied. (As a renter, I feel this pressure acutely.) The available supply of starter homes, townhouses, and housing that is well suited to age in place needs significant construction investment. Market-rate investors have systemically refused investment of these types of housing supply since the 2008 market crash. I support greater investment in WHEDA funds for LIHTC apartment construction funds. WHEDA should create a program to fund mortgage interest rates of 3% to first-time homebuyers and long-term homeowners looking to downsize. Zoning laws that stymie "missing middle" housing need to be rewritten to create a statewide framework for denser housing variation.
An official nonpartisan redistricting commission codified into the state constitution would go a long way to create equitable map boundaries for redistricting. They should have clear directives to focus on elements of demographics and contiguous mapping techniques that minimize electorate partisanship and gerrymandering.
First: End public dollars to non-instrumentality charter schools/private schools ($700 million). Set family income limits for voucher use. The 1993 school funding formula needs a complete overhaul to improve funding formulas, including for special needs students. Transition to using income tax funds over only property taxes to cover the bulk of public education costs. Not tying community boundaries to school funding through land value will decouple school funding from NIMBY zoning and value tendencies and will equalize per-pupil public dollar spending. It will also remove a significant portion of property tax burden from homeowners.
Increase school library and literacy budgets and connect public libraries to schools with dedicated funds.
Right now we need to pause construction approvals for additional large scale CAFOs, data centers, and warehouses until comprehensive and increased regulatory standards are approved state-wide. Utility and surrounding infrastructure costs must be fully accounted and paid for by end users. Clear incentive claw-back and environmental mitigation and remediation standards and costs should be comprehensively established. Community input processes and conflict resolution should be enshrined. NDA use by public officials should be banned. Construction impacts (light, noise, vibrations, construction times) and monitoring standards should all be heavily proscribed.
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