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Ryan Clancy: “It was really weird to come back to the US, be prosecuted…”

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

Ryan Clancy Mr. Nice Guy interview

Published March 20, 2020 | Video Starts at 47:55

And I was never accused of being George Bush, which is a good thing. And it was never held against me. So it was really. It was really weird to come back to the US, be prosecuted for the US, for having gone there. and then at the same time seeing all the hate crimes against people who either were from the Middle east or Iraq or even looked like that. (47:55–48:00)

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Asserts that he faced prosecution in the U.S. for traveling to Iraq.

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“I think it sounds like a grind. And I've been knocking so many doors, some mornings I get up and I'm like, dah.”
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“It's a great way to meet your neighbors and to kind of understand your neighborhood and all the communities that we're a part of.”
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“My ten year old especially loves coming with me. And it's really neat to expose him to people in places he wouldn't normally see.”
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“Well, let's talk about money in the service industry.”
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“My wife and I, when we opened up Bounce, were reluctant small business owners because neither of us had kind of a business background.”
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“I was, you know, an activist, an organizer, former teacher.”
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“She came at it from the nonprofit world as well. She was at peace action at the time when we got the idea.”
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“We approached opening a business in a much different way.”
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“Some of the first restaurant owners specifically that we ran into didn't share our values in terms of wanting to have employees that had not…”
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“Typically when we get a new employee, they count on us being one of their two or three jobs.”
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“Nobody should have to hustle and work out those schedules and all that.”
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“The Wisconsin Restaurant Association defeated paid time off for employees.”
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“Milwaukee county said that if you were an employer of a certain size, your employees were entitled to ten sick days.”
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“There are restaurant employees who will come to work sick because they won't have a paycheck.”
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“We made PRoWN, which is the Progressive Restaurants and Activists Wisconsin Network.”
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“We talk about how to provide health insurance, how to raise wages, but do it in a way that doesn't put ourselves out of business.”
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“Every piece of evidence that I have suggests that we need to legislate this.”
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“We helped collaborate on a piece of legislation. It was SB, say, 483 or AB 483.”
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“If you're a restaurant paying at least the full minimum wage plus tips, you would still take in sales tax, but you wouldn't send it to the…”
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“The restaurants that want to do the right thing, the bars that want to do the right thing and pay their staff a living wage, it also allows…”
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“It also means that your employees don't then have to have three side hustles. They don't have to have a second or third or fourth job…”
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“It means that our employees and the public is healthier.”
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“The Wisconsin Restaurant Association is very anti-worker.”
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“We have the National Restaurant Association and the Wisconsin Restaurant Association blocking these things every single time they came up.”
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“They just blocked what was essentially a tax cut for small businesses because they thought it might lead to the slippery slope of people…”
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“The Wisconsin Restaurant Association is the reason that we have such a low minimum wage right now.”
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“That legislation did not pass, and it was because the Wisconsin Restaurant Association rallied their troops.”
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“They didn't even have the courage to make a public statement. They went, it was a whisper campaign to all of their predominantly, actually…”
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“A tax cut which would also have benefited employees, became a partisan issue simply because. Yeah, I don't know. They never made a…”
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“I went there and I brought one of my managers, who was a dreamer, and they. They had sat there the entire time and said, it is so hard to…”
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“Our dreamer and our immigrant employees are our best employees. They're the most invested in us communities and to, if anything, that's more…”
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“Scott Walker refused to even look at her, like, wouldn't acknowledge her existence.”
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“There's nothing more American than, like, you know, getting. Showing up in the US with nothing or very close to it and then finding success…”
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“We're getting to the point where there's nothing more American than trying to rip that away and then trying to invent excuses for it that…”
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“We saw cuts to mass transit. Big ones were announced and they rolled back some of the cuts.”
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“One of the job lines that we cut was up to Menominee fall.”
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“Milwaukee tool was like, hey, we have a big factory going in there. We've got up to 500 or so jobs.”
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“Milwaukee county residents don't have a way to take the bus there.”
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“Every year the city of Milwaukee and Milwaukee county look around when it starts getting cold, and they're like, oh, my gosh, it's getting…”
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“There hasn't been the sort of political will to make sure that those efforts [to provide shelter] are well funded.”
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“Street Angels, Inc. [...] they're doing phenomenal work in the community.”
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“What I want to do as a county supervisor is declare a right to shelter.”
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“City and anybody in the city and the county has an absolute right to not freeze to death.”
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“We really have to have a permanent solution in place so that we don't have to throw things together at the last minute.”
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“Many, many people who don't have homes are not the ones who are unable to work or whatever else.”
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“We see a ton of the homeless population in Milwaukee is working, but, you know, is working at a low enough wage or few enough hours, thanks…”
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“That's why I respect that the people that I do that are running for office, because they're not only there to provide that safety net, to be…”
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“Most businesses can't [guess at] what will jumping into politics or taking a stand on important issues.”
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“We've taken stands on like common sense, gun control and things like that.”
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“Conservatives are so bad at boycotting, it is just ridiculous.”
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“Progressives are good at boycotting.”
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“I back candidates who want to raise the minimum wage.”
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“I see the effect of [raising the minimum wage] every single day.”
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“I want to be able to raise ours [minimum wage] as much as we can without going out of business.”
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“The ACLU of Wisconsin... encouraged my rebel rousing early on.”
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“I'm a donor [to the ACLU of Wisconsin].”
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“The school kept suspending me every time we handed [the underground newspaper] out.”
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“Eventually got to the point where it looked like they were going to try to expel me.”
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“The ACLU of Wisconsin provided two cooperating attorneys.”
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“Although we didn't win the case it was mooted out of court.”
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“Nicolae had scared enough students so that nobody would take it out after we left because they were scared to do it.”
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“I traveled to Iraq in violation of the travel ban in 2003.”
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“It looked to me like we were about to engage in a war pretty much unprovoked.”
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“There probably weren't actually weapons of mass destruction there.”
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“We actually went after the civilian infrastructure instead of the military targets, which is a war crime.”
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“I was never accused of being George Bush, which is a good thing.”
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“I signed up a long time ago, I think, on one of their first websites.”
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“Bernie Sanders, come have your event at bounce, Milwaukee. We would absolutely love to welcome you. So any of the other candidates, too…”
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“I mean, I think the more attention Milwaukee gets in that way, the more people realize how much their vote is incredibly powerful and how…”
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“We have so many amazing organizations who I know have been doing phenomenal work and will be ramping up their work between here and there…”
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“Kids in fucking cages. Yep.”
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