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Rebecca Cooke: “There's a lot of work that we can do in recruiting more…”

Featuring: Rebecca Cooke, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Wisconsin, District 3

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Democratic Candidates Mallory and Rebecca Cooke Discuss Grassroots Engagement and Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 05:06

What do we need to be working on? I think there's a lot of national leaders coming to districts, but I think the change really needs to come from the inside out. There's a lot of work that we can do in recruiting more working class people to step up to run for office, whether that's school board or whether that's United States Congress. And so I think that's something that we have to be focused on is how do we elevate those voices that have the pulse on what the needs are within … (05:06–05:15)

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Asserts the need to recruit more working-class individuals to run for office.

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