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Ryan Clancy: “I came to understand how terrible the unemployment system…”

Featuring: Ryan Clancy, Democratic | Wisconsin State Assembly, District 19

Darrin Madison and Ryan Clancy for Wisconsin State Assembly

Published August 8, 2022 | Video Starts at 48:51

Because she was part of that victory as well. And I think, you know, based on that experience and based on helping her through that process, I came to understand how terrible the unemployment system was in Wisconsin. And that's why I want to run to. To change those systems. So. But it's only. Yeah, it's only those interactions with individuals. (48:51–48:57)

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Asserts that the unemployment system in Wisconsin is terrible.

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“Even at Val Phillips... we have overloaded that facility with so many kids that they're sleeping on the floor.”
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“In this last term, [some legislators] tried to roll back protections on child labor.”
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“Wisconsin is even conservatively a 50, 50 state, but has 61 Republicans sitting in those assembly seats.”
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“August 9th is the primary. And that's the big one for Darren especially.”
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“Those [eviction fees] are all prescribed by the state. That's a state law.”
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“The Credible Messengers program for Milwaukee county has a 40 or 50 person child waiting list.”
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“Locking [children] up forever...does not work based on the data to reduce crime.”
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“Only recently have we been...putting a few more dollars into [the Credible Messengers program].”
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“The right to counsel that I did at the county level, I would love to see that statewide.”
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“I was able to pass [the right to counsel] unanimously on a bipartisan basis at the county.”
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“There are folks all across the state that are affected by both eviction and foreclosure.”
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“The county is an arm of the state.”
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“City folks can do whatever they want unless the state prohibits it.”
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“We can only do what the state lets us do, what they prescribe to us.”
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“All of the data says that the more you isolate anybody... the worse the outcomes are.”
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“We should not be locking kids up, period.”
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“We just had a conversation at the county about making a dashboard... to see how many kids we have locked in cages.”
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“142 or whatever number we have right now... is an absolute systemic failure.”
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“We're exporting some of our kids to Racine county, where we have no oversight.”
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“Wisconsin Restaurant Association, others were all for this [rolling back child labor protections].”
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“I have written more amendments and more ordinances and resolutions than anybody in recent memory.”
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“In 2023 we have a chance to shake up the state supreme Court, that would mean that in 2024 we would have a chance at maps that were not…”
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“You don't get a pension at the county at all.”
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“It's not unusual. I mean, this is, this is the norm. It was only a problem because I was a socialist and also doing this thing that many of…”
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“The 19th Assembly District, which is one of the highest turnout, highest fundraising districts in the state.”
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“The pandemic, I think, really laid a lot of those things bare.”
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“That's why I want to run to change those systems.”
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“It's disinvesting in policing.”
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“It's taking those funds and then investing in the community and opportunity and education.”
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“All the things that the data says overwhelmingly actually make our communities better and make them safer.”
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