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Jodi Habush Sinykin: “We've got a five billion dollar plus surplus right now.”

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

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Published November 4, 2024 | Video Starts at 47:05

Come on. That's what I see at the state level is us moving us all together. And we can do it just to be a tiny bit wonky. We've got a five billion dollar plus surplus right now. We've got some give, to say the least, where we can make those investments in our children, in our communities, in our education, in our health care to bring us all forward. (47:05–47:10)

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Asserts that Wisconsin currently has a budget surplus exceeding five billion dollars.

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“Ypsilanti, Michigan, is the former site of three large institutions that had been closed.”
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“There was just a high population of people in need, homeless people, people who had mental health problems, significant ones [in Ypsilanti].”
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“My dad is someone who is fiercely protective and shows his leadership in terms of who he takes care of.”
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“He has a very strong ethic to help people who are vulnerable and disadvantaged.”
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“He's always taken on the big insurance companies, the big corporations, big those who have most of the power.”
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“I helped pass Wisconsin's puppy mill bill.”
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“Before I got involved, what was going on in Wisconsin. We were rock bottom in the country.”
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“For seven plus years, there had been an effort to try to pass a law.”
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“I was hired to represent Wisconsin Humane Society and work with Wisconsin federated humane societies around the state.”
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“I did the domestic abuse internship where I helped women, largely women in those cases.”
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“Also the AIDS internship and also the homelessness project.”
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“The assembly and Senate is [focused on] women's right over their own bodies, access to essential reproductive health care freedoms.”
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“This is a consequential election on that very issue [women's reproductive rights].”
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“People have to have control over their own beliefs, their own ideas, and come to them in the way that you described.”
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“The constitutional right in Wisconsin to education...means a quality education.”
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“A law was passed in Wisconsin that removed the ability of teachers and other public workers to negotiate for their salaries and benefits.”
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“We now officially have a teacher shortage in Wisconsin where we used to have amazing abundance.”
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“There was a choice again by politicians...to not invest, not spend money on education.”
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“It has put our universities back, it has been putting our schools back.”
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