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Wisconsin Assembly, District 52/Asamblea de Wisconsin, Distrito 52

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    Reive Pullen
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    Lee Snodgrass
    (Dem)

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 Snodgrass for Assembly
Campaign Email lee@snodgrassforassembly.com
Campaign Phone 9202772635
Campaign Mailing Address 415 S Olde Oneida St
Apt 204
Appleton, WI 54911
Website http://votesnodgrass.com
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/SnodgrassforWI/
Instagram http://www.instagram.com/snodgrassforwi/
Education Bachelor of Arts from University of Wisconsin-Madison
Personal Pronouns she/her
I’ve spent my six years in office building relationships both in the Capitol and with allied organizations to improve the lives of everyday Wisconsinites. This experience has made me a trusted and effective advocate for the people in the district. I've a strong understanding of the issues and how to implement solutions. My focus will continue to be building a Wisconsin where everybody has equal opportunity to thrive. This means security, affordability, safety and opportunity for all. I’ll continue to introduce legislation ensuring we have strong public education, access to quality affordable healthcare, affordable housing options, a state supported child care industry, protecting our shared natural resources and family supporting wages.
While we've seen an increase in housing, it is not housing that is affordable for new graduates and those making under $100K a year. We need to increase the variety of affordable housing options from lower rate apartments, duplexes/quadplexes and true “starter” homes for young families or retired couples. We do this by passing renter friendly policies that cap rent increases, provide developer and builder incentives to contain costs, and work with municipalities on updating codes that will allow smaller lot sizes and reduce prohibitive regulations such as parking and accessory dwelling requirements--even reconfiguring retail properties as residence areas. This all provides a strong start to thinking outside the box on what is possible.
While independent, non-partisan redistricting processes are popular and ideal, we have seen these advisory commissions disband, are deadlocked or become irrelevant as they are advisory and not legislative. Whatever the solution, we must ensure that what can be done by one party can not be immediately be undone by the other outside of the census years. I believe ultimately then that redistricting reform must happen on a national level to prevent the temptation of abuse of power through political gerrymandering. If one party is not playing by the rules and the other is, what do we do? We have to insure that we are not letting political gerrymandering steal the voice of the voter but must also be free to respond to attacks on our democracy.
The state must update the funding formula for public schools to remove caps set in 1993 that no longer meet funding needs. We must counter this to keep property taxes low with state investment in students through increasing special education reimbursement to 69% minimum, increase the general aid funding, and per pupil funding. We can fund this by stopping the diversion of public tax dollars to private businesses in the form of for profit private schools. Public tax money should be used exclusively for public schools not unaccountable, private voucher schools. While there has been a decline in the population impacting enrollment, the needs of our students are increasing at a rapid rate. Our children need more support, not less.
We have to ensure that both costs and environmental impacts are addressed before authorizing large scale projects such as these. Working with local municipalities, the state can provide guidelines that make sure 100% of the energy costs are paid by the data centers and not passed to households, we can require environmental impact mitigation plans be included in their builds, and we can make sure there are penalties to any lack of transparency or adherence to the guardrails set. The reality is that nearly everyone uses AI daily and we are still a nation of meat eaters. Making personal choices that impact these industries makesnmicro-level steps but the state will have to step in with solutions to protect workers, households, and resources.
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