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Masters of Business Administration | Northeastern University
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Public education funding for pre-K through college must be a state priority. As a college teacher for over 25 years and owner of a consulting business that helps students find their paths after high school, I have witnessed firsthand the damage from undercutting and underfunding public education.
Access to affordable healthcare and housing is critical for individuals and families to make progress toward their dreams and plans and to build successful communities. WI must expand its Medicaid funding. I will work every day to restore women’s reproductive healthcare freedoms and choices.
I will work at creating policies that support workers with safe working environments and livable, family-supporting wages. I am determined to help the next generations as we work to fix the damage from selfish and destructive policies the gerrymandered state legislature created. I fully support unions and the rights of workers to unionize.
The lack of affordable housing affects every community in Wisconsin and is directly related to the issues of living wages and the rising costs of health care and child care. For decades, Wisconsin workers' wages have not kept pace with either the cost of living or CEO salaries, yet the costs of basic life necessities keep increasing.
In speaking with the Janesville Fire Department, I learned it lifted the residency requirement for firefighters due to an utter lack of affordable housing in our community. Young families and professionals tell me they have given up thinking they will own a house anytime soon despite their best efforts at trying to save enough.
Any solution has to be multifaceted, with living wages at the forefront of the discussion, and all alternatives, such as private-public partnerships and taxpayer-supported housing programs, need to be part of the solution.
I commend Governor Evers for drawing fair maps that make it possible for either political party to gain control of the legislature or to win congressional seats, which is how they should be drawn. Wisconsin has suffered from the effects of gerrymandering for too long. Long-term, I would support a non-partisan, data-based approach to creating maps, such as the process advocated by the League’s Fair Maps Coalition.
While listening to farmers', environmentalists', and public officials' concerns, I consistently hear about the threats facing our waterways, and PFAS and nitrate levels have been recorded throughout Rock County and the state at dangerous and unhealthy levels. When elected, I will work to increase funding for municipalities to treat their drinking water effectively, as well as expand the treatment and testing of PFAs and nitrates within Wisconsin’s waterways.
In order to grow Wisconsin’s economy through tourism, we need to maintain and protect our state parks system and the Department of Natural Resources from budget cuts and politicization. Not only do these parks and landscapes provide tourists with great opportunities, but they also provide green spaces to residents, which are proven to alleviate mental health issues, improve happiness, and promote the overall economic and environmental well-being of an area.
Fixing the outdated school funding formula should be top priority, as well as allocating additional state revenue to pre-K–12 schools, technical colleges, and the UW system schools. School districts are relying on operational referenda and ARPA funds to make ends meet, and they are forced to compete with each other for grant dollars to fund services and programs that should be considered essential.
I will work every day towards the goal of a fully-funded system of public education. In my business, I often begin working with students in 8th grade, so I see the damage austere policies have caused to students at many levels.
Finally, I will work to eliminate private school vouchers. Tax dollars should not be taken away from school districts, who are required by law to provide special education services to all who need them, to private, charter, and parochial schools. I believe we need to do the most good, for the most people, with the resources we have available.
