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Ben Wikler: “At the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, we started paying for…”

Featuring: Ben Wikler, Democratic | Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin

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Ben Wikler With Bradley Whitford: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy

Published | Video Starts at 1:04:11

If you can become a monthly donor, even if it's five bucks a month, but great, if you can add some zeros to that, it means that a party organization, a grassroots organization can hire year round staff. And you know, At the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, we started paying for everyone's health insurance and then we paid for health insurance for family members. It meant that people, it meant that people could actually do this for years at a time. Most people who work in these jobs, they are like six month, maybe nine month jobs at the outside. (1:04:11–1:04:17)

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Asserts that the Democratic Party of Wisconsin provides health insurance for staff and their families.

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