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Kelda Roys: “I support legalizing recreational marijuana.”

Featuring: Kelda Roys, Democratic | Wisconsin Senate, District 26

Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor

Published May 16, 2018 | Video Starts at 21:28

And you know, night after night, I was in the Capitol as the caucus chair and I helped hold the floor for 63 hours in opposition to this. I think that … I support legalizing recreational marijuana. … and firefighters, just as it's true for the folks who build our roads or the steelworkers. So that's just a basic value I have as an employer. (21:28–21:38)

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“We now spend more money locking people up in our correction system than we do on our entire University of Wisconsin system.”
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“Gen X and millennials are leaving this state in droves.”
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“Young, educated people are our biggest export.”
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“A lot of [public employees] are seeing lower pay than they had 10 years ago, much higher cost for benefits.”
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“We're spending twice as much on debt service for just basic road repair and maintenance.”
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“We need to make sure that...they're not going without health insurance or that they're losing their retirement security.”
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“There's been so much political interference with scrubbing, any mention of climate change, gagging the scientists.”
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“Scientists have been fired or pushed out or retired and not replaced.”
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“We're letting polluters write their own permits.”
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“The DNR was one of the premier agencies for natural resource management for much of its history.”
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“Wisconsin was actually one of the first states in the Midwest to adopt a renewable portfolio standard.”
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“Wisconsin should be powered 100% by renewable energy by 2050.”
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“People in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s and even 60s have this massive [student loan] payment.”
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“We need to have universal background checks that close all the loopholes.”
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“We should reinstate the 48 hour cooling off period [for gun purchases].”
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“I support reinstating the assault weapons ban.”
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“We do need to raise the gas tax and we need to re index it to inflation.”
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“It's these big semi trucks, for instance, that are carrying frac sand up and down the highways of western Wisconsin that are really costing…”
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“Addressing the gas tax and user fees for these high capacity commercial vehicles is a better way to go.”
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“We need to restore the billion dollars in funding that we're still down under the current governor's historic cuts to education.”
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“We've had our schools and our university system on essentially a starvation diet.”
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“Smaller class sizes and experienced teachers make the biggest difference for students.”
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“Vouchers take money away from our public schools.”
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“We have to stop these massive corporate giveaways, these big loopholes that allow the wealthiest among us and very big businesses to have a…”
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“I support collective bargaining rights and the right of workers to have the option to join unions.”
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“Public employees have been at the forefront of [making responsible, tough financial choices].”
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“When we give big corporate tax giveaways to companies like Foxconn...they just hoard it or they buy back their stock.”
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“Make badger care available as a public option for anyone to buy into.”
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