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Wisconsin Assembly, District 42/Asamblea de Wisconsin, Distrito 42

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    Maureen McCarville
    (Dem)

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    Keith F. Miller
    (Rep)

Biographical Information

Please describe your priorities for your term in office and your specific qualifications to effectively address those issues.

What do you see as the most pressing housing-related issue in Wisconsin, and what policies, if any, would you support to address the issue?

What redistricting process, if any, do you believe the legislature should put in place before the next national census to ensure fair representation for voters?

What, if anything, will you do to ensure our schools have the resources to improve outcomes for its students, including those with disabilities?

What guardrails, if any, would you support to protect our environment, health, property values, and household budgets from large projects such as hyperscale data centers and Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)?

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Committee McCarville for Assembly
Campaign Email m4assembly@gmail.com
Campaign Phone 608-576-4056
Campaign Mailing Address 513 Flambeau Pkwy
DeForest, WI 53532
Website http://McCarville4Assembly.com
Education Bachelor degree- Business Management
The number one priority mentioned by residents is affordability. Affordability is necessarily my greatest focus. The current affordability crisis is largely driven at the federal level. We need to do what we can at the state level to address the impacts on the working class. We can do that by shifting costs from local property taxes, incentivizing affordable housing and childcare and supporting small businesses. Protecting free and fair elections, providing our veterans the care and respect they have earned and assuring everyone has affordable medical care are also on my priority list. I have a proven track record of hard work and both the willingness and ability to work across the aisle to find solutions. I am always willing to listen
Inadequate housing is a function of both availability and affordability. On the availability side, we need to enhance incentive programs for the construction of affordable housing, offsetting some of the building costs in exchange for affordability commitments. Property taxes affect affordability on an ongoing basis, impacting home buyers as well as homeowners on limited incomes. We need to shift the cost of local roads to more of a user-based fee system and finance more of local school budgets through general revenue sources.
Partisan gerrymandering puts politicians above voters in priority, yet it has become a standard practice that is blatantly abused. We should establish a non-partisan committee to draw maps with a strict prohibition on any partisan considerations. That type of process has worked well in Iowa and we should evaluate a similar approach. Voters should select their representatives, not the other way around.
The number of school funding referenda we have seen, and the fact that a majority have been approved, demonstrate that 1) the current funding system is not working, and 2) taxpayers support public schools. A well-educated populus benefits the entire state, not just local communities. Continued reliance on local property taxes to fund 42% or more of school budgets is not sustainable and unfairly burdens seniors and the working class. We should be targeting at least 67% of funding from the general fund as contemplated by the Wisconsin Constitution. Cost increases due to inflation and other external forces are inevitable, and we need to install a funding mechanism that all people can afford.
Large projects vary in their environmental impacts, so there is not a one-size-fits-all answer. All projects, particularly large ones, need to be evaluated for all negative environmental effects. Water consumption, groundwater quality impacts, stormwater runoff, effluent discharges, air emissions, noise and secondary environmental impacts such as energy consumption need to be controlled and, as importantly, monitored. Impacts that cannot be avoided entirely should be minimized to the extent possible through adequate regulation, and remaining effects mitigated through other environmental benefits. Local governments need to be authorized to simply say “no” in cases where the environmental impacts will be unacceptable.
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