Wisconsin U.S. House, District 3/Representantes de Wisconsin por el Distrito 3 Choose 1
Legislative Branch: U.S. CongressThe United States Congress consists of two bodies: the House of Representatives and the Senate. Congress is the law-making body. Congress also allocates federal spending through the budget and appropriation bills. Proposed laws (bills) can start in either the Senate or the House of Representatives. Both houses must pass a bill before sending it to the president for signature or veto. Congress can vote to override a veto.House of RepresentativesThe United States House of Representatives currently consists of 435 members. The elected members are called either representatives or congresspersons. Members of the House represent the people in a state’s congressional district. Each congressional district has roughly the same number of residents. U.S. Census information is used to create the districts. The number of districts in each state depends on the state s population. Wisconsin has 8 representatives. Voters elect representatives to serve for a two-year term. There is no term limit.___PODER LEGISLATIVO: CONGRESO DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS:El Congreso de los Estados Unidos consiste de dos cuerpos: la Cámara de Representantes y el Senado. El Congreso es el órgano legislativo. El Congreso también asigna el gasto federal a través del presupuesto y los proyectos de ley de asignación. Las leyes propuestas (proyectos de ley) pueden comenzar en el Senado o en la Cámara de Representantes. Ambas cámaras deben aprobar los proyectos de ley antes de enviarlos al presidente para su firma o veto. El Congreso puede votar para anular un veto.Cámara de RepresentantesLa Cámara de Representantes de los Estados Unidos está formada actualmente por 435 miembros. Los miembros elegidos se llaman representantes o congresistas. Los miembros de la Cámara de Representantes representan a las personas en el distrito congresal de un estado. Cada distrito del Congreso tiene aproximadamente el mismo número de residentes. Para crear los distritos se utiliza la información obtenida del Censo de los Estados Unidos. La cantidad de distritos en cada estado depende de la población del estado. Wisconsin tiene 8 representantes. Los votantes eligen representantes para servir por un período 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.
Biographical Information
Committee
Cooke for Congress
Campaign Email
info@cookeforwisconsin.com
Campaign Mailing Address
PO Box 1846
Eau Claire, WI 54702
Eau Claire, WI 54702
Website
http://cookeforwisconsin.com/
Campaign Twitter Handle
@https://x.com/RebeccaforWI
Education
University of St.Thomas, Bachelors of Arts
Personal Pronouns
she/her
Please describe your priorities for your term in office and your specific qualifications to effectively address those issues.
We need an economy that delivers for working and middle-class families in west central Wisconsin. We can get there by strengthening Wisconsin’s agricultural economy, expanding opportunity and labor protections for workers, and improving access to affordable, high-quality healthcare, particularly in rural communities.
I’m a waitress, small business owner, and nonprofit leader who has focused my career on building community and serving others. Born and raised on an Eau Claire dairy farm and appointed by Governor Tony Evers to the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, I ran my own small business, before helping 70 other women in west central Wisconsin start their own too. I understand the challenges facing the small towns and rural communities and am a fierce advocate for protecting their livelihood.
I’m running for Congress to better serve communities across Wisconsin, put people first and provide more opportunities for success, and be a relentless fighter for our way of life.
What policies, if any, would you support to promote a healthy economy and lower the cost of living for Wisconsinites?
People across west central Wisconsin are working hard, but too many families are falling behind. We need an economy that works for working people, not just large corporations. I would support measures to lower healthcare and prescription drug costs, expand affordable housing, and increase access to quality childcar so families can afford to live and work in the communities they love. We can make a difference right away by cracking down on corporate price gouging and enforcing antitrust laws when large corporations abuse their market power and costs for consumers, farmers, and small businesses. As a small business owner, I know how important vibrant Main Streets are to our communities. I want to invest in entrepreneurs and manufacturers, support first-time homebuyers, and create opportunities for second-stage business growth that creates good-paying jobs here in Wisconsin. I also support raising the minimum wage through a phased approach and strengthening workforce development.
What laws, if any, would you change or be in support of to ensure all voters have an equal opportunity to cast their ballot?
Our democracy works best when every eligible voter has the opportunity to participate. In Congress, I would work to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. I believe voting should be accessible, secure, and fair. I support protecting early voting and absentee voting, ensuring polling locations are adequately staffed, and making sure rural communities and voters with disabilities have equal access to the ballot box. At the same time, we must maintain confidence in our elections by ensuring they are administered fairly and transparently. Expanding access and protecting election integrity are not competing goals, they go hand in hand. Our democracy is strongest when everyone has a voice and when people trust that their vote matters and will be counted.
What, if anything, will you do to ensure equitable, accessible, and affordable health care services, including reproductive health care (i.e. contraception, IVF, and abortion) for Wisconsinites?
Healthcare is personal for me. When my mom suffered a heart attack and needed quadruple bypass surgery, our family saw firsthand how devastating medical costs can be. And as someone who has had to go uninsured as costs explode, I am living the same struggle so many Americans face everyday myself. I want to lower costs by improving the Affordable Care Act, expanding tax credits, and giving families more choices on the exchange. But in rural Wisconsin, we don’t just have a cost issue, we have a real access issue so I support increasing Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates so rural hospitals can continue providing care. Healthcare decisions should be made by patients and their doctors, not politicians. I support protecting access to contraception, IVF, abortion care, codifying Roe v. Wade into federal law. I also support continued federal funding for family planning services and organizations like Planned Parenthood. Everyone deserves access to affordable, high-quality healthcare.
What measures, if any, would you propose to ensure the fair and humane treatment of immigrants and refugees while maintaining national security?
America has always been strengthened by people seeking freedom and opportunity, and I believe we can uphold our values while maintaining a secure border. We need a practical approach that combines strong border security with a fair and efficient immigration system. That means investing in modern border technology, increasing funding to immigration judges to address the processing delays, and providing resources to address drug trafficking and human trafficking to ensure that immigration laws are enforced responsibly. Throughout, we should treat immigrants and refugees with dignity and humanity. Families fleeing violence and persecution deserve due process and a system that reflects our nation's historic values.
Biographical Information
Committee
Rustin Provance for Congress
Campaign Email
Rustinforcongress@gmail.com
Campaign Phone
7154020146
Campaign Mailing Address
108 3rd st
Pepin, WI 54759
Pepin, WI 54759
Education
Dakota County Technical College
Please describe your priorities for your term in office and your specific qualifications to effectively address those issues.
1. I am a CNA in the medical field, I know wages right now are not sustainable for a family.
2. I would like accountability for the Epstein files and victims. Send a criminal to catch a criminal so to speak.
3. Criminal Justice reform. Lower cost while working on how to reducing the recidivism rate in our country as well as Wisconsin.
4. Reducing congressional wages and reduce or take away congressional retirement benefits. Its supposed to be a job of servitude.
5. Securing the American people's rights again. Rights to free speech on social media, our rights to the Second Amendment. To actually uphold the oath I would take to the constitution.
6. I am putting term limits on myself. One term to do as much good as I can. 330+ Million people in America 🇺🇸 with some great ideas. One person in office on an endless agenda, surprises progress.
7. Fighting to put the gold standard back on the dollar. Also add precious metals into just the currency. Like a gold backs currently in trade.
What policies, if any, would you support to promote a healthy economy and lower the cost of living for Wisconsinites?
I would like to deregulate farmers so they have more access to sell locally. I would like to go after the seed manufactures and push a bill that we as America could meet some of the international requirements so that our farmer's have more countries to sell our products to. Its one thing to sell in house, Its another to sell outside of our boarders and bring outside money in.
What laws, if any, would you change or be in support of to ensure all voters have an equal opportunity to cast their ballot?
Addressing the Foreign Agents Registration Act and AIPAC.
What, if anything, will you do to ensure equitable, accessible, and affordable health care services, including reproductive health care (i.e. contraception, IVF, and abortion) for Wisconsinites?
Thats a big one. We have to think of Healthcare as a multi stage program.
Add young adult care to all of them.
1. The child's care and mother's care.
2. The infant care and mother care.
3. Child care and family care.
4. Teen care family care
5. family care and child care.
6. Middle age,family care.
7. Retirement age care, family care
8. Elder care, family care
To understand Healthcare, we need to think of it in full life cycles. Addressing each group's need is important. I would push a bill that would require any Healthcare facility in America wanting any funding from the federal government to provide their staff with Healthcare. Start a 3 tier government Healthcare plan. Something that covers the basic. I am currently one of the American people without health insurance because it is so expensive, I understand what we go through.
What measures, if any, would you propose to ensure the fair and humane treatment of immigrants and refugees while maintaining national security?
I would set their treatment the same way we currently treat our inmates. As a felon. I broke the law, are we saying that people that broke the rules from outside our country should get better treatment then the people that live in our country and break the rules ?
Biographical Information
Committee
Alexander Valiensi Kent for Congress
Campaign Email
alexander@voterdirectednetwork.com
Campaign Phone
608-496-9499
Campaign Mailing Address
232 3rd St North, 3rd Floor
La Crosse, WI 54601
La Crosse, WI 54601
Website
http://voterdirectednetwork.com
Education
Masters of Social Work from University of Chicago (2016), Bachelors of Science in Social Work from Viterbo University (2014)
Personal Pronouns
He/Him
Campaign Announcement
http://voterdirectednetwork.com
Please describe your priorities for your term in office and your specific qualifications to effectively address those issues.
Voter Empowerment- we believe in full Voter Empowerment, which comes down to the phrase "One Voter, One Vote on All Issues." We built Voter Directed Network (app.voterdirectednetwork.com) to modernize and evolve our practice democracy and republicanism. We can do this easily with issue-by-issue online voting. It is time to put Yes/No political power where it truly belongs in a republic- equally distributed in the hands of all voters on all issues. We also believe in Anti-Corruption. This means NO donors, lobbyists, Super PACs, or political parties using money to corrupt our political system. As a compassionate Social Worker, the author of Voter Directed Democracy, founder of Voter Directed Network and lifelong learner I believe I am ready.
What policies, if any, would you support to promote a healthy economy and lower the cost of living for Wisconsinites?
There are hundreds, if not thousands of great voter directed, voter supported ideas about how to improve our economy for voters, children, and families. We shouldn't be suffering like this. We have an authoritarian party controlled political system and economy that has caused immense human suffering in Wisconsin and the U.S. for decades. We are still forced to have primitive and elementary conversations about human survival necessities and costs of living/surviving. The real economic solution has always been the same. We must support Human Rights for all Americans. Safe shelter, nutritious food, clean water, affordable healthcare and education are all human rights we all deserve. When we protect human rights our economy will thrive.
What laws, if any, would you change or be in support of to ensure all voters have an equal opportunity to cast their ballot?
The right to vote is an essential part of democracy and our republic. We of course want to empower voters like never before with issue-by-issue online voting on VoterDirectedNetwork.com . The only way to effectively counter the rise of Techno-Authoritarianism (which is already here and will accelerate as AI strengthens and grows) is with Techno-Democratic Republicanism. We must use technology to support, protect, and evolve democracy and our republic. Or tech-savvy, tech- empowered authoritarians will continue to dominate our country socially, politically, and economically. That said, Election Day needs to be a holiday, mail-in ballots must be protected, and the Voting ID laws that have existed for decades do not need to be changed.
What, if anything, will you do to ensure equitable, accessible, and affordable health care services, including reproductive health care (i.e. contraception, IVF, and abortion) for Wisconsinites?
Healthcare is a human right. Many other countries recognize this truth and that the U.S. does not is perpetually enraging and heart breaking. We would solve so many problems and eliminate an immense amount of human suffering if our government recognized healthcare as a human right, as most voters do, and acted accordingly. Furthermore, access to informative sexual education and contraception is highly correlated to better social and economic outcomes for all. IVF creates miracles. All human life is a miracle from birth to death and should be supported accordingly. I also consider myself honestly Pro-Life and Pro-Choice. I wrote an essay explaining this, please find it here: https://www.voterdirectednetwork.com/philosophy-and-me
What measures, if any, would you propose to ensure the fair and humane treatment of immigrants and refugees while maintaining national security?
There are many really good examples of national immigration and refugee policy around the world. The system in the U.S. is insane and inhumane for various terrible reasons. However, humane, helpful, worker friendly, and safe-for-all immigration and refugee policy is definitely possible. Voters need to openly and transparently discuss all of these issues. Also, the party controlled authoritarian political system uses many types of Negative Identity Politics to divide, conquer, and control voters. As a voter directed candidate I stand against all prejudice and Negative Identity Politics. Please find my full essay on the immensely harmful effects of Negative Identity Politics here: https://www.voterdirectednetwork.com/identity-politics
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What policies, if any, would you support to promote a healthy economy and lower the cost of living for Wisconsinites?
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What laws, if any, would you change or be in support of to ensure all voters have an equal opportunity to cast their ballot?
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What, if anything, will you do to ensure equitable, accessible, and affordable health care services, including reproductive health care (i.e. contraception, IVF, and abortion) for Wisconsinites?
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What measures, if any, would you propose to ensure the fair and humane treatment of immigrants and refugees while maintaining national security?
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