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Chris Larson: “This is the seat that will determine if the state Senate has…”

Featuring: Chris Larson, Democratic | Wisconsin State Senate, District 7

Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson

Published February 16, 2026 | Video Starts at 42:50

We've done it before in the 10th and this is one we absolutely can win with people's health. We can win it and help Tony, help protect his vetoes. So. Right. Right. Yeah. Right. Now this, this is a, This is the seat that will determine if the state Senate has a veto-proof majority. or if it's, if it's one where it's going to be a little bit closer. Right. (42:50–43:02)

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“We would have to increase the per pupil funds across the board by $3,000 [to keep pace with inflation since the first recession].”
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“Last time they expanded [school choice] was over 72% of the kids that were getting a taxpayer funded voucher...were already setting their…”
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“This last election, I believe it was over 90 different referendums were on the ballot for a total of 2.2 billion.”
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“85% of those [referendums] pass.”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 17:30-17:32
“Back in 2020 in the April cycle, there's 57 school referendums totaling 1.73 billion, 91% of those passed.”
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“Republicans used that and passed a historic double zero, which was $0 per pupil increase in the first fiscal year and then $0 per pupil…”
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“The last election cycle, 85 courts across the country said they don't have a case.”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 43:46-43:53
“There's been a steady decline in what the rich have paid, which is why you have these monstrous discrepancies in what the rich have and what…”
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“After 9/11, they did the Bush tax cuts that benefited the rich long term.”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 09:25-09:35
“In 2011 here in Wisconsin, they did Act 10, which ended up costing working class folks across our state.”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 09:38-09:45
“They did something called the manufacturing and agriculture tax credit, which basically wiped away the liability of most big manufacturing…”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 09:53-10:06
“In 2013, they did an income tax cut by reducing the brackets.”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 10:16-10:21
“The only big thing that Donald Trump did, the only signature piece of legislation he ever passed was the Trump tax cuts that benefited the…”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 10:24-10:37
“Poverty is continuing to climb.”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 11:45-11:48
“If we actually kept pace with inflation, per pupil across the board would be $3,000 per pupil more.”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 14:08-14:16
“When the collection of income tax first started in the state, they said, well, the state will collect income tax to prevent local…”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 22:02-22:10
“Back when this first started, 90% flowed through and went back to the local communities.”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 22:23-22:30
“It really shifted 12 years ago when Scott Walker became governor and the Republicans took over.”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 22:41-23:18
“Communities can only raise revenue to the point of new growth or inflation, and that was it.”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 23:22-23:30
“Referendums increase across the state by local communities trying to make it up just to have operating funds.”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 23:43-23:50
“There is a movement afoot to try and figure out local revenue or to be able to get something right.”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 24:01-24:16
“It would basically pretty close to double the amount of revenue that they're getting in shared revenue.”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 24:18-24:25
“Republicans have very much gerrymandered themselves being into power regardless of how voters feel about them.”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 24:33-24:40
“Republicans are going around beating their chest and saying, look at all this huge surplus.”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 27:01-27:06
“Local communities are saying, wait, you've been telling us to tighten our belts and have been lording over us for a decade plus.”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 27:07-27:18
“Communities are struggling, right. They're seeing it in shrinking class sizes, they're seeing it in shrinking populations, they're seeing it…”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 28:04-28:13
“More of our dairy farms continuing to shut down in the state, Republicans refusing to do anything about it.”
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“We're about a month out from when the budget's going to come out.”
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“We've got state of the State, which is happening in just two weeks on the 24th.”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 29:37-29:42
“The day after Valentine's Day, we'll have the budget address and the governor will come out with his proposal.”
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“Rebecca Clayfish and those around her who are trying to say, ah, let's, let's go after our schools and talk about things that weren't even…”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 32:21-32:38
“There's a recognition that the courts overstepped their bounds last summer.”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 33:36-33:41
“A fundamental right that we had assumed was not going to be stripped away was pulled out from underneath people after 49 years because of…”
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“We are a 50, 50 state. Closest U.S. senate election in the history of U.S. senator elections in our state.”
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“The governor's race coming down to the wire again, although Evers won by a larger margin than he did four years ago.”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 38:12-38:20
“The state Supreme Court is the, that intervened and accepted [the Republicans' map drawing strategy].”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 38:47-38:55
“There's nothing like [the Republicans' map drawing strategy] in the state. There's nothing like that in the country.”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 39:05-39:09
“This is a district that has trended further and further.”
Looking Ahead with State Senator Chris Larson | Uploaded February 16, 2026 | 41:31-41:35
“There's three justices on this court who said that it was all right that Donald Trump continue to try and push his wild conspiracies.”
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