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Wisconsin Assembly, District 62/Asamblea de Wisconsin, Distrito 62

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    Mike Bellagio
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    Angelina M. Cruz
    (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 Friends of Angelina Cruz
Campaign Email cruz4wi@gmail.com
Campaign Mailing Address PO Box 141
Racine, WI 53401
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/Cruz4AD62
Instagram http://www.instagram.com/cruz4wi/
Education St. Catherine’s High School 1997; attended University of Wisconsin–Madison 1997–99; BA in Sociology and teacher certification, University of Wisconsin–Parkside 2002; MS in Educational Policy, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee 2010.
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My core priorities for my term in office will continue to center on workers' rights, fully funded public schools, living wages, immigrant defense, and climate action. My qualifications are directly relevant to several of these: I am a 20+ year public school teacher veteran, served ten years as president of the local educators’ union – Racine Educators United, and the incumbent Assembly District 62 representative first elected in 2024. I have already authored legislation to raise Wisconsin's minimum wage to $20/hour and to address issues exacerbated by the broken school funding formula. My union leadership background gives me direct, practical experience with labor organizing and contract campaigns.
Wisconsin's housing affordability crisis hits everyone: working families priced out of homeownership, renters whose costs outpace their wages, and rural communities that cannot attract or retain workers because there is nowhere for them to live. On the supply side, I support allowing accessory dwelling units and missing middle housing. On the affordability side, I support inclusionary zoning so new development includes units accessible to low- and moderate-income families, and the development of social housing that reduces our dependence on the private market to meet a basic human need. I also support just cause eviction protections, rent stabilization and guaranteed legal representation for tenants facing eviction.
Wisconsin's redistricting process is fundamentally broken. I support legislation to establish an Independent Redistricting Commission that puts mapmaking in the hands of citizen commissioners. An IRC would apply to Wisconsin's state senate, state assembly, and congressional maps, ensuring that district boundaries reflect communities rather than entrench partisan advantage. Fair maps are the foundation of a functioning democracy. When districts are drawn to predetermine election outcomes, voters lose their voice and legislators lose their accountability. An IRC is the structural reform that makes genuine representation possible.
The decades-long trend of disinvestment and privatization of our public school system must end and the state must fulfill its constitutional obligation to fully and equitably fund public schools. Districts should be properly staffed with full-time social workers, counselors, psychologists, nurses, librarians, and specialists in every school. I support requiring charter schools to accept students with disabilities and English language learners under the same accountability standards as public schools, and oppose voucher programs that divert public dollars away from public education. Special education reimbursement rates must be promised at a sum sufficient rate and increased to proper levels to meet the needs of our most vulnerable children.
Wisconsin needs an immediate pause on data center development until proper safeguards are in place. My primary concerns on this issue are protecting residential ratepayers, communities, and the environment from unchecked expansion of an industry that currently operates with no state regulatory framework. Data centers need to be prohibited from shifting their enormous energy and water costs onto regular utility customers and require voter approval by local referendum before any can be built. The existing sales tax exemption that has already attracted a wave of proposals across the state must be eliminated and a mandate that data centers run on 100% newly built renewable energy should be instated.
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