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Wisconsin Assembly, District 47/Asamblea de Wisconsin, Distrito 47

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    Sandy Bakk
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    Randy Udell
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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 Committee to Elect Randy Udell
Campaign Email contact@udellforassembly.com
Campaign Phone 608-332-6261
Campaign Mailing Address 2905 Walnut Wood Ct
Fitchburg, WI 53711-5106
Website http://www.udellforassembly.com
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/udellforassembly/
Instagram http://www.instagram.com/udellforassembly/
Education Bachelor's degree, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Janesville Craig High School.
Personal Pronouns he/him
My top priorities are cost of living and affordability, public education, expanding broadband access, and roads and infrastructure. I worked for 30 years at AT&T and have put my professional experience to work to benefit our state. That's why I serve on the Governor's Broadband Task Force. It's a major economic development, affordability, and quality of life issue even in districts like mine. As the incumbent legislator, I can get to work right away advocating for reviewing the state's school funding formula and pushing for legislation to cap insulin costs and negotiate prescription drug prices. Finally, I am the only candidate who has served as a local elected official in our district, so I have a strong understanding of local issues.
The shortage and sheer cost of housing are the main issues at hand. The state, through the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA), to expand workforce and affordable housing tax credit and grant programs. I'd like to see more incentives to construct barrier-free condos that meet ADA standards. Red tape can also delay crucial housing development. We need to review state statutes to find unnecessary barriers to development, as well as push cities and villages to update outdated zoning codes like statutes require for Comprehensive Plans every ten years. Outdated zoning codes increase staff time and resources needed to review a project, plus they are more challenging to interpret as a developer or member of the public.
I would like to see the legislature create an independent redistricting commission before the 2030 census. I support what Governor Evers sought to do with the special session this year by putting a constitutional amendment for that on the ballot. Politicians should not be drawing legislative and congressional district maps.
I strongly support increasing the special education base reimbursement rate for public schools to 60% instead of the current 37.5%, which is long overdue. In addition, the Legislature needs to look at the outdated school funding formula and find ways to both improve it and better fund our public schools.
Data center developers should pay for the utility and infrastructure costs and not push higher utility bills on existing ratepayers. CAFOs need to protect the quality of nearby groundwater and surface water through environmental standards (and associated accountability and enforcement) as well as making permitting decisions based on scientific data. Impacts of large projects should be transparent to both local governing bodies and the public. It is important to ensure local governments and their constituents do have a voice in decision making, while also having consistent and predictable state policies to back up and help inform those decisions.
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