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Kelda Roys: “Young, educated people are our biggest export.”

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

Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor

Published May 16, 2018 | Video Starts at 00:44

Well, thank you for calling me youth as I enter middle age. But I think that, you know, the main thing is that Gen X and millennials are leaving this state in droves. In some cases, Young, educated people are our biggest export. And we need to fix that. We also need to do it by addressing the generational economic issues that I think are very different from what the baby boomers faced. (00:44–00:47)

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Asserts that Wisconsin's most significant outflow is young, educated individuals.

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“We have nearly a million borrowers that owe about $24 billion in student loan debt.”
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“Kids in wealthy suburban districts should be worth $9,000 per kid. And in other rural school districts or in the north side of Milwaukee…”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 14:42-14:55
“Childcare costs in many parts of the state more than college tuition.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 15:24-15:29
“We now spend more money locking people up in our correction system than we do on our entire University of Wisconsin system.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 19:47-19:54
“Gen X and millennials are leaving this state in droves.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 00:39-00:43
“A lot of [public employees] are seeing lower pay than they had 10 years ago, much higher cost for benefits.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 02:09-22:44
“The current governor has failed to address things like the student loan debt crisis.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 02:20-02:25
“He has defunded education for everything from K12 to the university system.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 02:24-02:30
“We're spending twice as much on debt service for just basic road repair and maintenance.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 02:43-02:50
“We need to make sure that...they're not going without health insurance or that they're losing their retirement security.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 05:18-24:09
“The cost to taxpayers at $4.5 billion is simply way too high.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 05:40-05:46
“There's been so much political interference with scrubbing, any mention of climate change, gagging the scientists.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 06:56-07:07
“Scientists have been fired or pushed out or retired and not replaced.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 07:07-07:12
“We're letting polluters write their own permits.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 07:15-07:18
“The DNR was one of the premier agencies for natural resource management for much of its history.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 07:22-07:28
“We need to restore funding that's been cut to DNR.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 07:37-07:41
“Wisconsin was actually one of the first states in the Midwest to adopt a renewable portfolio standard.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 08:22-08:29
“We have now lagged behind all of our peer states in the Midwest.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 08:34-08:38
“Wisconsin should be powered 100% by renewable energy by 2050.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 08:56-09:01
“People in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s and even 60s have this massive [student loan] payment.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 09:24-09:31
“We need to have universal background checks that close all the loopholes.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 10:53-10:58
“We should reinstate the 48 hour cooling off period [for gun purchases].”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 10:59-11:03
“I support reinstating the assault weapons ban.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 11:24-11:27
“We do need to raise the gas tax and we need to re index it to inflation.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 12:31-12:36
“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…”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 12:58-13:08
“Addressing the gas tax and user fees for these high capacity commercial vehicles is a better way to go.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 14:19-14:27
“We need to restore the billion dollars in funding that we're still down under the current governor's historic cuts to education.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 15:04-15:12
“We've had our schools and our university system on essentially a starvation diet.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 16:17-16:22
“Smaller class sizes and experienced teachers make the biggest difference for students.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 16:29-16:34
“Vouchers take money away from our public schools.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 17:19-17:23
“All the evidence shows that taken as a whole, [vouchers] don't produce any better results. And in many ways the results are worse.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 17:23-17:31
“We have to stop these massive corporate giveaways, these big loopholes that allow the wealthiest among us and very big businesses to have a…”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 20:20-20:31
“I support collective bargaining rights and the right of workers to have the option to join unions.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 21:28-21:34
“I support legalizing recreational marijuana.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 21:28-21:38
“Public employees have been at the forefront of [making responsible, tough financial choices].”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 22:32-22:36
“When we give big corporate tax giveaways to companies like Foxconn...they just hoard it or they buy back their stock.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 23:01-23:10
“We need to decouple benefits from employment.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 23:52-23:57
“Part of my economic plan...is to make sure that we have universal paid family leave.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 24:10-24:23
“Make badger care available as a public option for anyone to buy into.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 24:27-24:33
“It can affect the number of opioid overdoses because people have a much less dangerous way to relieve chronic pain.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 24:51-25:07
“States that have led the way on [legalizing marijuana] have shown it can be a huge revenue booster.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 24:53-24:58
“I'm one of the few candidates in this race that has actually held elected office before and is qualified to be governor and has a long track…”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 28:20-28:32
“Whether Republicans and Democrats are in charge, I've been able to accomplish important priorities.”
Campaign 2018: Kelda Roys (D) Candidate for Governor | Uploaded May 16, 2018 | 28:31-28:37