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Fred Clark: “This has been a very Republican leaning district since the…”

Featuring: Fred Clark, Democratic | Former Member, Wisconsin State Assembly

Fred Clark | Wisconsin 7th Congressional District Candidate | DrydenWire

Published January 27, 2026 | Video Starts at 17:18

This was not an easy choice. But I sat with that question for about three months and finally decided that I had something to offer here. And knowing that This has been a very Republican leaning district since the lines were redrawn in 2010. is it an uphill battle for a Democrat? Yeah, I'm ready to have that battle. And what is that strategy for a path to victory in, as you just said, the seventh Congressional is a quote unquote red or Republican or conservative district. (17:18–17:25)

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“Minnesota has something like 0.9% of the undocumented immigrants in this country.”
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“There's almost a trillion dollars cut out of Medicaid nationally. That's going to mean thousands of people are going to lose coverage or…”
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“All to make tax breaks for billionaires and add $4 trillion to our deficit.”
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“I served three terms in the state assembly representing parts of Sauk, Columbia, Marquette counties.”
Fred Clark | Wisconsin 7th Congressional District Candidate | DrydenWire | Uploaded January 27, 2026 | 05:33-05:40
“I was elected in 2008.”
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“The party in power basically controls the legislative agenda.”
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“Act 10... forced everybody to pick a side.”
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“Republicans cemented that majority with their redistricting in 2010.”
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“I co-authored a piece of legislation on venture capital, having the state help tee up better access to venture capital for startup…”
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“I was also appointed by Governor Walker to the Wisconsin Council on Forestry and to the Transportation Projects Commission.”
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“In Wisconsin, we have a statewide body called the Council on Forestry that statutorily constructed and advises the governor and the…”
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“There are a Republican and a Democrat of the Senate and the assembly that are on that [Council on Forestry].”
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“In 2008, we had a devastating series of floods in south central Wisconsin.”
Fred Clark | Wisconsin 7th Congressional District Candidate | DrydenWire | Uploaded January 27, 2026 | 14:13-14:17
“One of them wiped out an earthen dam that basically was the head of Buffalo Lake that was right on the edge of the city of Montello.”
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“Scott Walker came to town and I came to town with him. And both of us committed to advocate for funding in the budget to rebuild that dam…”
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“The impacts of [the Trump administration's] cuts to health care, which are going to affect all of us in one way or another.”
Fred Clark | Wisconsin 7th Congressional District Candidate | DrydenWire | Uploaded January 27, 2026 | 16:50-16:59
“The crazy tariff war and the firing of federal employees who manage our national forests and our national parks.”
Fred Clark | Wisconsin 7th Congressional District Candidate | DrydenWire | Uploaded January 27, 2026 | 16:59-17:06
“Every one of [my four Republican opponents] has basically said that they'll support our president no matter what.”
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“ICE as an agency, that was their mission and they did that very effectively under Republican and Democratic presidents.”
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“What's happening right now has very little to do with law enforcement and that legitimate mission.”
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“The violation of our constitutional rights is so blatant right now that you just can't ignore it.”
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“Our dairy industry in this state, there's not a large dairy in this region, or very few, I would say, that don't rely to some degree on…”
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“What we have right now is a broken system that doesn't allow those people to be here legally, even though those are jobs that immigrants are…”
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“We need a secure border. There's no question that immigrants who commit crimes need to be found and deported and charged.”
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“What we have right now is basically a force of federal people who are poorly trained.”
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“Greg Bovino, who was the commander, whatever that title is supposed to mean, who was running around being the sort of visible presence of…”
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“They're going to put this guy, Tom Holman in charge of what's going on in Minneapolis.”
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“It appears that the president has finally had a real conversation with Governor Walz and Mayor Fry in Minneapolis that maybe was productive.”
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“It appears that [welfare fraud] was a massive fraud that defrauded taxpayers of, I don't know, hundreds of millions of dollars.”
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“My representative, Tiffany, who's of course now running for governor, said this morning, apparently that, well, he hadn't seen the video…”
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“Putting 3,000 mostly poorly trained federal agents on the streets without a clear mission is a recipe for chaos.”
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“Those 3,000 agents don't have a thing to do with rooting out fraud in welfare programs.”
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“The level of gun violence and gun death in this country is off the charts compared to any other developed nation.”
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“We need an investment in the kind of programs that will allow us to do that so that we're not just taking guns away from law abiding…”
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