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Jessi Ebben: “Permitting process. If you want to build here, it takes too…”

Featuring: Jessi Ebben, Republican | Candidate, U.S. House Wisconsin, 7th Congressional District

Jessi Ebben - Republican Candidate for WI 7th CD

Published October 7, 2025 | Video Starts at 37:11

And I am all about that. But the next steps is get the government out of the way. You know, Permitting process. If you want to build here, it takes too long to get going. If you want to have the energy, right, what big thing that manufacturers look for, if we want to bring jobs into community, if we want to set up shop … (37:11–37:16)

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Asserts that the permitting process in the U.S. takes too long.

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“We were the first state to pass the 19th Amendment, which is giving the women the right to vote.”
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“In Minnesota, you can get an abortion up to nine months, you can get abortion up to the point of birth.”
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“There were counties turning out 96, 95% of the vote, which is unheard of.”
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“Wisconsin is tied right now with Indiana of the most manufacturing per capita.”
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“My parents being teachers were told through [the Act 10 process] that they were going to be fired.”
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“That's not what happened. My parents are good teachers, they stayed employed.”
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“The lies of the teachers unions.”
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“The seventh Congressional District, you know, this was a stronghold for Dave O. The Democrat for 42 years.”
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“We've been voting Republican ever since [Dave O. retired].”
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“The community I grew up in often feels forgotten, so the best thing you can do is care for your neighbor and solve problems locally.”
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“What needs to be done at Congress at the federal level is to delist the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act.”
Jessi Ebben - Republican Candidate for WI 7th CD | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 16:17-16:25
“Langley county just had six bear hunting dogs that were brutally killed by wolves.”
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“I ran in the Republican primary for the third Congressional District.”
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“I knew there was a winning path that that third could be flipped from Democrat to Republican. And inevitably it was.”
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“You see more regulation than legislation.”
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“Congress has given up a lot of its authority, a lot of its accountability.”
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“Regulatory agencies are appointed by the US Senate, but they are not elected.”
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“Some of these regulations actually end up shutting businesses down.”
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“We have the blueprint ready to go if we can have the onshoring of manufacturing.”
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“Congress especially has a reputation of trying to quickly solve something and government really should move slow.”
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“There's so much overburdensome regulation that adds cost to business here in the United States.”
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“Business over the past few decades has been pushed overseas.”
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“It is more affordable to chop down a tree, use that log that timber, send it overseas to make a product, to manufacture the finished good…”
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“That's because of regulation, not only through the manufacturing process itself, it's because of the additional regulation requirements.”
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“Health care costs, healthcare is one of the biggest costs for a company.”
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“It can take seven years to get an energy production going, whether that's natural gas or that's coal.”
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“Wind and solar are not reliable enough. If the wind's not blowing, if the sun's not shining, there is no energy going to the grid.”
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“The first yet Republican woman we've had Democrat women elected.”
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“In Ripon, Wisconsin, we formed the Republican Party, right, to fight slavery back in the 1800s.”
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“We used to be a blue state that's moved from purple. And I truly think we're a Republican state.”
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“We've fallen behind with the Biden administration, with the Obama administration, tremendously on the global scale.”
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“The majority of Americans voted for [the America first agenda].”
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“Abortion hurts everyone. It hurts the mother and it kills the child.”
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“With the overturn of Roe v. Wade, this is no longer at the federal level. It's down to the state issues.”
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“A baby can be born alive through an abortion and they do not have to save that child [in Minnesota].”
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“Children are dying because of the policies they've set up [in Minnesota].”
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“You do have to raise money in the low millions [for a congressional race].”
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“The seventh congressional was absolutely pivotal to Trump winning in 2024 here in the state.”
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“The experience I have, I will not only work for them in D.C. but have strong constituent services right here in the District.”
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“I will not only work for them in D.C. but have strong constituent services right here in the District.”
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“The American dream has become, you know, has slipped out of reach over the last few years.”
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