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Wisconsin Senate, District 13/Senado Estatal de Wisconsin, Distrito 13

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 SenateThe Wisconsin Senate has thirty-three senators. Voters elect state senators to represent their senate district for a four-year term. Each senate district includes three assembly districts. There is no term limit.___PODER LEGISLATIVO DE WISCONSINLa 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.Senado de WisconsinEl senado de Wisconsin consta de treinta y tres senadores. Los votantes eligen senadores estatales para representar a su distrito senatorial por un período de cuatro años. Cada distrito senatorial incluye tres asambleas de distrito. No hay límite de término.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 Jagler
    (Rep)

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    Sasha Ripley
    (Dem)

Biographical Information

Please describe your priorities for your term in office and your specific qualifications to effectively address those issues.

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?

What, if anything, will you do to ensure our schools have the resources to improve outcomes for its students, including those with disabilities?

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 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 Sasha Ripley for Wisconsin
Campaign Email sasha@ripleyforwisconsin.com
Campaign Mailing Address PO Box 113
Montello, WI 53949
Website http://ripleyforwisconsin.com
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586601663176
Education Bachelor of Arts UW Stevens Point in Education, Social Sciences, and History, Graduate Certificate in Alternative Education from Marian College, Medical Coding Degree from Madison College
Personal Pronouns She/her
Campaign Announcement http://urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/marquette-county-educator-sasha-ripley-announces-campaign-for-wisconsins-13th-state-senate-district/#google_vignette
I’ll be a representative who shows up and fights for working and middle-class Wisconsin residents. I want to build an economy that works for everyone, not just the wealthy and big corporations. My priorities include lowering property taxes, while also fully funding public schools and stopping the use of taxpayer money to fund private school vouchers. I’m focused on making housing affordable for average Wisconsinites, lowering utility bills, bringing better jobs to rural communities, ensuring affordable healthcare and prescription drug prices, protecting worker’s and women’s rights, and supporting unions. I want a pause in the construction of new data centers and strict regulations on existing data centers.
I support enforcing caps on the price of many necessary and lifesaving medications such as insulin and asthma inhalers, hospital price transparency, and prohibiting medical debt from being sent to collections or affecting credit scores. We should eliminate prior authorizations and investigate companies with high rates of claim denials. I support the BadgerCare Public Option Plan which would allow state residents and small businesses to buy into the state’s BadgerCare program with sliding scale premium subsidies and support Medicaid expansion to include more Wisconsinites. I will work to ensure Wisconsin women always have the right to choose what they do with their own bodies and control their own reproductive health.
I support fully funding our public schools and paying our teachers a competitive wage while reducing property taxes so we can have the great public schools our kids need and deserve and not tax our retired Wisconsin residents out of their homes. We should use money set aside for schools that we were already taxed on to pay for public schools instead of allowing it to sit unused in Madison. We could implement a 1% tax on the highest income earners in Wisconsin, create a progressive estate tax on properties valued over 5 million dollars, excluding farmland, use tax revenue from legalizing marijuana, and eliminate taxpayer funded private school vouchers. These additional policies could dramatically reduce property taxes for everyone.
I support having fair legislative maps. Voters should be choosing their representatives. By allowing the legislature to draw gerrymandered maps, we have allowed the party in the majority to choose their voters. That is not how democracy works. I support ending partisan gerrymandering by establishing a nonpartisan, independent redistricting commission.
I support a pause on building data centers until we have adequate regulations. They must pay their fair share of taxes from the beginning and throughout the project and pay 100% of the costs to build, maintain, and use the facilities and for environmental protection. Wisconsin residents should not foot the bill for building new infrastructure, upgrading the electrical grid, or increasing gas, water, and electric rates. Workers hired to build data centers should be paid union wages and should be local whenever possible. We should require quarterly reporting by energy utilities on data center energy consumption and prohibit nondisclosure agreements and hiding behind shell companies. The community residents must have a part in the decision.
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