Fix Rural Healthcare
For decades more and more clinics have closed, leaving behind rural Wisconsinites searching for accessible healthcare. I will focus on fixing the rural healthcare crisis and ensure everyone has their right to affordable and accessible healthcare, starting with expanding Medicaid as 42 other states in the Union have already successfully done.
Restore Education Funding
Education is the backbone of our community and future workforce. For years, we have watched with disbelief the drastic cuts to our public schools and colleges. We need to ensure teachers are being paid a living wage, students have access to reliable and safe school infrastructure, and parents can trust in their children's learning. Republican Legislative leaders have held millions of dollars captive that would greatly benefit our educational system. We need leaders who will stand up for education and fund it fully--yielding a return on that investment for generations.
Protect Our Land and Water
Rural Wisconsin is famous for its graceful blend of productive farms and recreational assets, set in beautiful rolling landscapes, supported by smaller cities and villages. This is the basis of our economy--a unique environment and economy that in addition to highly productive farmland, is also a place of destination resorts & recreational opportunities. The 41st District is part of the Driftless Region, which enjoys a growing reputation for opportunities of all types, but growth requires attention to protection. We know the land and its water resources deserve careful treatment.
Our rural lands are essential to our economy. Our job is to preserve and improve it for generations to come.
Ensure Freedom of Choice
Just as all persons should have equal rights, a woman must have her own full rights to make her own medical decisions and manage her own life--without political interference. I will make sure to protect a woman's right to choose in her life, and to access the healthcare all women need in all stages of life.
Be Resilient & Sustainable
We all need to reach for the future, while respecting the past. We also need to, together, navigate change and the reality of climate crisis--and its impact on all of us. I believe we can face tough situations with hope and resiliency. Strategies large and small can reap big returns on the investments we make now to improve all of our futures. The time to act is now--face change head on- -doing so can help us all go forward positively.
Wisconsin WISE--Smart Investment
Under their majority Republican legislative control in Wisconsin, we have watched our tax dollars wasted on projects that haven't come to fruition, instead of invested wisely for all of us. We also have witnessed the baffling refusal of our own federal tax dollars to improve infrastructure, or help rural hospitals stay open or care for families and children in need.
Democratic leadership has a track record of stopping wasteful programs, insisting on investing in people, places, and our future.
That is the legacy --and I think we can do better than we have been able to with Republican controls.
We need to INVEST SMARTLY to reclaim the Wisconsin tradition of going FORWARD!