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Jodi Habush Sinykin: “He is, as vice chair of the joint Finance committee, is…”

Featuring: Jodi Habush Sinykin, Democratic | Wisconsin State Senate, District 8

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Wisconsin Senate Candidate Jodi Habush Sinykin on Fair Maps, Reproductive Rights, and UW Funding

Published | Video Starts at 11:10

And this is the one that really gets me. Notwithstanding all his ads, how much he's praising the need for literacy and how he's a pro fan of literacy, He is, as vice chair of the joint Finance committee, is withholding 49 million of the $50 million approved by the legislature and the governor to get into the schools, literacy coaches and the like. So it's this type of obstructionism and divisiveness which is really hurting Wisconsin. And the result, to answer your question, is that it's with it's keeping money back from people at the local level where they need it. (11:10–11:26)

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Asserts that Dewey Strobel is withholding $49 million intended for school literacy programs.

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