Wisconsin Assembly, District 70/Asamblea de Wisconsin, Distrito 70
Wisconsin Legislative BranchWisconsin’s legislature makes state laws. The legislature has two houses: the Wisconsin Senate and the Wisconsin Assembly. Proposed laws (bills) can originate from either the state senate or assembly. Both houses must approve the bill before it is passed on to the governor for signature or veto. The legislature can override a veto with a two-thirds majority vote in each house. The legislature controls the spending of state funds through appropriation.Wisconsin AssemblyThe Wisconsin Assembly has ninety-nine representatives. Voters elect representatives to represent their assembly district for a two-year term. There is no term limit.__________Poder Legislativo de Wisconsin La legislatura de Wisconsin produce las leyes estatales. La legislatura consta de dos cámaras: el Senado de Wisconsin y la Asamblea de Wisconsin. Las propuestas de ley pueden originarse tanto en el Senado estatal como en la Asamblea. Ambas cámaras deben aprobar el proyecto de ley antes de transmitirla al gobernador para su firma o veto. La legislatura puede anular un veto con un voto mayoritario de dos tercios en cada cámara. La legislatura controla el gasto de los fondos estatales a través de las leyes de asignación. Asamblea de WisconsinLa Asamblea de Wisconsin tiene noventa y nueve representantes. Los votantes eligen representantes para representar a su asamblea de distrito por un término de dos años. No hay límite de términos.Nota: Las respuestas de los candidatos que aparecen en español se tradujeron de las respuestas originales de los candidatos en inglés.
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Stephanie Stuve Bodeen
(Dem)
Nancy VanderMeer
(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)?
EducationUW-River Falls: BS Secondary Ed/Broad Field Social Studies // Spalding University: Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Personal Pronounsshe/her
Healthcare. Education. Affordability. Specific qualifications include an education degree and my years spent in public schools as a teacher and an author/presenter. Schools are the lifeblood of small communities. I will fight to fully fund them. In March, I had a front-row seat to the broken healthcare system when my father died. Affordability seeps into both of the other priorities. During the pandemic, as a contact tracer for Jackson County Public Health, I had a direct line, literally, to the everyday financial struggles of people in this area. My biggest qualification may be that I love this state and care about the people in it.
Roughly 32% of Wisconsinites rent and rents are too high. Since the state doesn’t have rent control, income needs to keep pace. Raise the minimum wage. Create a tax on the ultra-wealthy and close corporate loopholes to alleviate the middle-class tax burden. In my area, residents of mobile home parks are being evicted after private equity firms buy the land under their homes and raise the rent to unaffordable levels. I would support legislation to limit or curtail such purchases by entities that care nothing for the people of the community they’ve affected.
I support a constitutional amendment to end gerrymandered maps. But since new maps could quickly become outdated, I support the implementation of proportional representation.
Public dollars belong in public schools. End the school voucher program and fully fund public schools. Adopt AB 1176 that increases special ed. reimbursement to 60% and adds $446 million in general aid. Adopt Assembly Bill 517 that requires full-time teachers to be paid a salary no less than that of state legislators.
I support a legislative moratorium on the construction of both modular and hyperscale data centers, as well as CAFOs. I’m in a rural area and observe how the county or village leadership can be easily swayed in one direction or another, despite local residents being 100% against a certain project. Common sense regulations— including but not limited to the requirement of thorough environmental impact reviews, responsible water usage standards, labor protection agreements, and community benefit agreements— need to happen at the state level.
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