Committee
Christopher Dean For Wisconsin
Campaign Phone
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It is the duty of Government to provide the environment for its citizens to be prosperous. We must be good stewards of tax funds to provide the people that environment. By cutting waste and focusing those reclaimed funds we can properly fund our schools, update a failing infrastructure, provide long overdue training and equipment to emergency services, and protect our natural resources. Redirecting funding into local communities will also make large and potentially harmful industrial developments less attractive to local Governments as there will not be a need for the funding those developments may bring.
No one in Wisconsin should ever feel as if they do not have access to the best health care. It is my goal to ensure that every region of our State has fair and equal access to all forms of health care. By supporting local health clinics and mobile clinics we can ensure that under serviced communities have access to the best quality of care. We need to make it a priority for Government to ensure our health providers to have every tool at their disposal to provide preventative health, reproductive health, and health education services to all corners of our State.
Public School funding per student in Wisconsin is well below the national average. Our schools have been forced to ask for operating funds through referendum to make up the difference in what the State provides and what is actually needed. This shortfall in funding and the change in education has forced our Educators to do more with less for too long. It is my goal to see that our public schools are properly funded. We can do this by redirecting funds from wasteful spending into our public school system and by ensuring that funds earmarked for public education stays in the public system.
Fair districts can only be put in place when partisan politics are removed from the process. I believe the only way to achieve fair redistricting is to create a bipartisan committee with equal representation from all parties. I also believe that every redistricting must be voted on by the People of Wisconsin.
It is my belief that we must do everything in our power to protect Wisconsin's natural beauty, environment, and people. We have to be very well informed when navigating the current landscape of large and potentially harmful developments. While on the surface guardrail legislation seems effective at protecting the People of Wisconsin by putting restrictions on developers, I believe that kind of legislation can also work as a guideline that developers can easily follow to ensure they can be successful in putting these facilities in our neighborhoods. My goal is to ensure that developers of projects such as hyperscale data centers find Wisconsin so restrictive that they choose to look outside our State for their future sites.
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Committee
Friends of Mark Spreitzer
Education
B.A. in Political Science from Beloit College
Personal Pronouns
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I have a proven track record of fighting for the priorities of the 15th District, providing excellent constituent services, and showing up to public events to meet people where they are. I’m running for re-election because there is more work to be done. I am already a legislative leader on many of the most pressing issues facing our district, including housing, AI and data center regulation, supporting our family farms, and reducing the burden of property taxes. I serve as the Senate Democratic Caucus Chair and am in a position to play a lead role in a Democratic majority. We must lower the cost of everyday needs, healthcare, childcare, and housing while supporting public schools and providing tax relief to seniors and working people.
I would establish a state health care exchange under the Affordable Care Act, create an option to buy in to BadgerCare for people who make a little too much to qualify, and allow a broader public buy-in option either through BadgerCare or the state health plan to cover the gaps left by Medicare, Medicaid, or employer-provided insurance. I would limit insurance prior authorizations and crack down on both AI-driven denials and on pharmaceutical companies that hike up drug prices. I would cap the price of insulin and inhalers and eliminate the sales tax on over-the-counter medications. I would pass laws to affirm that abortion, contraception, and IVF are legal and put the right to privacy and reproductive rights into our state constitution.
I would do much more to increase state reimbursement to school districts for special education costs, and make that funding sum sufficient so schools are reimbursed at a guaranteed percentage of their actual costs. I would also ensure that schools receive at least enough new overall state funding each year to keep up with inflation and not have to constantly raise property taxes or go to referendum. I would provide additional funding to meet the needs of kids coming from poverty, learning English as a second language, or facing other barriers to help them succeed alongside their peers. I would support evidence-based interventions to improve student achievement and give our teachers the resources they need to do their best work.
Wisconsin should create an Independent Redistricting Commission made up of ordinary people with the budget and authority to draw maps and hire experts on behalf of the people of Wisconsin. Both partisan and racial gerrymandering should be banned. Partisan voter data should not be used to draw the maps, but partisan fairness should be an important consideration in selecting a final map. In a purple state like Wisconsin, both parties should have a real chance of winning majorities in the legislature. We should ultimately pass a constitutional amendment to ban partisan gerrymandering, ensure the Independent Redistricting Commission cannot be overridden in the future, and take politicians out of the redistricting process entirely.
We must protect people from the negative effects of hyperscale data centers. I’ve supported bills to ban data center NDAs, make data centers, not rate-payers, pay for new power, and provide regulations around water, clean energy, labor protections, and more. We need to let people decide if they want data centers in their community, to stop data centers from getting power from new fossil fuel plants, and to have data centers pay the same taxes as other businesses. I’ve supported programs to help small-scale farmers partner on water quality and conservation measures. I would increase DNR staffing so they can properly monitor our air and water and adequately regulate data centers, power plants, CAFOs, and other large-scale projects.
