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Wisconsin Assembly, District 98/Asamblea de Wisconsin, Distrito 98

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    Matt Philibert
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    Jim Piwowarczyk
    (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)?

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Committee Matt Philibert for State Assembly
Campaign Email Matt.philibert@gmail.com
Campaign Phone 2398510101
Campaign Mailing Address W212N10334 Oak Ln
Germantown, WI 53017
Website http://MattPhilibert.com
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61587742286869
Education Bachelors of Science - Cybersecurity
Personal Pronouns He/Him
My priorities are to propose and pass policies that will put the people back in the driver's seat instead of large corporations. As a stay at home dad with four kids, I completely understand the strain that working class households are in right now. Grocery and gas prices have skyrocketed. Costs to buy or rent homes have continued to rise. With two of my kids under 5, it would most likely be a net loss to return to work once factoring in childcare costs. I am qualified to help dig us out of this mess because I am not wealthy and I am not a politician. I am just a regular guy that has had enough of this nonsense and nobody looking out for us.
I am 36 years old, my generation has always commented that we will likely not be able to retire and social security will certainly not still be around by the time its our turn. The generation after mine, Gen Z, jokes that they will probably never own a home. That is a bleak and very real outlook for many young people and first-time home buyers in Wisconsin. Fixing the housing crisis would require multiple pieces of legislation that can help increase the availability and production of new housing while creating assistance programs, tax breaks, or other incentives for first-time home buyers and other working class families.
"Fair representation" is a dead concept until we are able to pass a national ban on gerrymandering. Until such time, we should move to counter the aggressive gerrymandering tactics that have been abused by the Republican party in other states.

This may not be a politically savvy answer, but we are dealing with opposition that wants to put as many obstacles between citizens and their right to vote as possible. Trying to "play fair" against a party that wants to repeal birthright citizenship and enact a "one vote per household" policy to strip women of their right to vote would be giving away the country.
I want to sunset the school voucher program so we can keep public money in public schools where it belongs. When we keep public money in public spaces, we can lower property taxes and create our own destination schools with great programs that can rival and surpass the quality of private education that parents are seeking. We can make our education system something to be proud of again.

I do not partake, but I also want to legalize marijuana so we have additional tax revenues to use towards increasing teacher pay, school budgets, and free breakfast and lunch for all public school children in Wisconsin.
I want to ban the construction of any additional data centers in Wisconsin. Our land is for us, not for billionaires and big tech to use for these eyesores that drain our energy, pollute our water, and create burdens for those unfortunate enough to live near one.

Any already existing data centers and those already underway must use their own closed-cycle water system, their own energy grid, get no tax breaks, utilize solar panels to reduce their power consumption, and install the highest possible sound-proofing to reduce noise pollution.

The people do not need AI or big data. We need farms, parks, libraries, affordable houses, and health insurance that works for us.
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