Wisconsin Assembly, District 86/Asamblea de Wisconsin, Distrito 86
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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John Spiros
(Rep)
Andy Wuethrich
(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)?
EducationBachelor of Science in Wildlife Management from UWSP
Personal PronounsHe/Him
My priorities center on raising the tax rate on the top 1% of earners in our state and using those funds to expand Badgercare, fix our roads, and restore the people's voice to politics. As a person that's owned a small business and worked as a tradesman for over 30 years, I've had a front row seat to the changes that cutting the tax rate on the upper class and increasing the load on the middle class has had on our state. We need to make the people that benefit most from our roads and the education our schools provide pay their fair share of the costs for those services.
As an Electrical Contractor I can tell you that the costs to build, remodel or repair homes in this state have reached a point where the average citizen struggles to afford maintaining or building a home. Costs are nearly impossible to lower, the more useful solution is to create a Wealth Inequality tax that charges the overpaid CEO's of corporations based on the wage gap between their pay and the average employee's wages. Doing this would buoy the middle class and begin to create a middle class that can afford a decent home like previous generations could.
We need to explore the idea of codifying the process by which district maps are created in the future. Gerrymandering hurts the average citizen and leads to one party having outsized influence and in my opinion that's immoral and we need to create a process by which fair maps are created in perpetuity.
I believe raising the corporate tax rate and tax rates on the top 1% of earners in our state is a necessary step to be able to better fund our schools. We also need to eliminate the voucher program, no public funding should ever go to a private school, especially a school that teaches a religion to it's students. Separation of Church and State is one of the most important tenets of our constitution, and public funding for religious education is an affront to that very idea.
As a person with a natural resources degree I am very concerned with both the use and abuse of the resources of this state. I believe that every project, either large or small, must be reviewed to ensure that the natural environment that makes our state such a great place to live is protected. We as a society need data centers, and CAFO's to maintain our standard of living, but we can approach these projects with conservation and protection in mind. A well designed and thoughtful project can both perform the necessary function for society and protect our resources for future generations, and it's those types of projects we need to be building.
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