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Greta Neubauer: “We had Republican legislators who were really soft on…”

Featuring: Greta Neubauer, Democratic | Minority Leader, Wisconsin State Assembly, District 66

WisPolitics Luncheon with Minority Leader Greta Neubauer

Published June 13, 2025 | Video Starts at 36:28

A couple of years ago, before I was on the Joint Finance Committee, I worked with colleagues to try to push forward the Badger Care expansion. And We had Republican legislators who were really soft on [Badger Care expansion]. that issue. Right. Who frankly wanted to support the Badger Care expansion because it was really tough for them to go home and explain to their constituents why we were leaving those federal dollars on the table. (36:28–36:33)

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Asserts that some Republican legislators were initially supportive of Badger Care expansion.

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“Only 2% of bills proposed by Democrats even got a hearing in the state Assembly.”
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“Racine has actually had the highest unemployment rate in the state for believe it's still still correct my entire life, 32 years.”
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“Our number one priority had to be getting new maps and had to be competing for a majority with the maps that we had where Republicans were…”
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“We do have 50, 50 maps and we have a huge opportunity ahead.”
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“We just narrowly prevented a Republican super majority two years ago.”
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“We won two seats that were necessary to prevent that super majority.”
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“We are now able to say that we got through the entire session with no veto overrides.”
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“We actually only have one member of the Assembly Democratic Caucus, Chris Sinicki, who was here when Democrats were in the majority.”
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“Under these maps, there are 10 seats that if you layer on Joe Biden's results from 2020, would be decided by 2 percentage points on either…”
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“We need to win seven of those 10 seats to get the majority.”
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“That's 49 seats that Joe Biden would win under those maps, plus One additional Evers.”
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“His results in 22 would lead to 52 Democratic seats.”
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“We have a strategy for where we put resources and our time.”
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“We now have about 15 really competitive seats where we anticipate spending around 1.2 million, sometimes more than that.”
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“Without federal dollars coming in from the Biden administration, we would not have purchased the electric bus fleet.”
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“We would not have moved forward on our health clinic, had funding, additional funding for police and fire and violence prevention grants.”
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“Started a youth employment program, opened a financial empowerment center, and funded six major road projects just in Racine.”
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“People do have access to abortion again [in Wisconsin].”
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“We still don't have statutory protections for abortion in Wisconsin.”
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“We have no protections in state law, the constitution for abortion [in Wisconsin].”
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“People understood gerrymandering after that election because of the amount of money that was spent talking about the threats to democracy in…”
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“Assembly candidates are running inspiring campaigns in communities that haven't seen competitive races in a long time.”
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“Sheboygan was really gerrymandered and has now been restored.”
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“All of our candidates in targeted districts are going to be out on doors at least five times a week.”
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“We got over a hundred calls in the first week from people who wanted to run after we got the new maps.”
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“Governor Tony Evers got 52 on these maps.”
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“Tammy Baldwin would get 58 under these maps.”
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“These maps are true 50-50 maps, as I said, 10 seats that Joe Biden would have won or lost by 2 percentage points.”
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“Wisconsin was not a functioning democracy with those gerrymandered maps.”
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“Robin Voss...said to them, absolutely not...no one is soft on this issue anymore.”
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“A case was filed with the Supreme Court saying we're challenging these gerrymandered maps.”
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“The major reason that it hasn't happened in Wisconsin is Robin Voss.”
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“There are multiple members of the Senate and the Assembly Republican caucuses who would like to vote in favor of [Badger Care expansion].”
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“The governor is going to include [Badger Care expansion] again in his budget.”
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“The announcement...is over 2000 jobs in construction and then over 2000 long term jobs in the area in that new plant.”
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“Case New Holland announced several hundred jobs were leaving the area and they're moving to Mexico.”
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“The president of Microsoft said himself that without the Bipartisan Infrastructure act, without chips and science, they would not be there.”
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“It would not have happened without Joe Biden.”
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“Educational institutions, high schools, tech colleges, UW system, are already working to train people for those jobs.”
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“Those folks who are working in that AI data center, that is the future, whether we like it or not.”
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“Peter Barca is getting support from national organizations and of course, from organizations in the state.”
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“Peter's putting in the work again.”
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