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Wisconsin Senate, District 29/Senado Estatal de Wisconsin, Distrito 29

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    Gillian Battino
    (Dem)

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    Cory Tomczyk
    (Rep)

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)?

Committee Gillian Battino for Wisconsin
Campaign Phone 7155513463
Campaign Mailing Address PO Box 54
Wausau, WI 54402
Education B S biology-John Caroll University, MD, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Personal Pronouns She/her
My priority is to address the cost of living by improving healthcare affordability, reducing property taxes through properly funding public schools public safety and road maintenance and by putting people over party for bipartisan results.
I believe that we need to expand Badger Care, create a public option and advocate for robust Medicare and Medicaid solutions from a federal level. I believe that healthcare, including reproductive care and access to contraception, prenatal care, abortion care, and postnatal care are part of healthcare, the same as primary care, cancer care, mental healthcare. I will protect and legislate accordingly.
I believe that public schools need to be fully funded and let the voucher system should be phased out.
We need to legislate an independent, transparent commission with clear criteria that prioritize equal population, keeping communities together, and compact, contiguous districts rather than partisan advantage. Maps should be developed through public hearings, open data, and opportunities for public input so voters choose their representatives—not the other way around.
CAFOs and data centers must meet criteria based in science and health data for the construction, operation and retirement of those facilities that hold them accountable for the well-being of our lands, environment and population. They must also pay appropriate taxes and contribute to the well-being of the community from the perspective of healthcare, education and Public Safety.
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