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Ryan Clancy: “They had the votes to raise the minimum wage.”

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

Reviving Milwaukee's Socialist Movement - An Interview with Ryan Clancy

Published June 16, 2026 | Video Starts at 51:35

What we saw during the last trifecta, so 16 years ago is that the Dems didn't deliver. They had the votes to codify abortion rights. They had the votes to raise the minimum wage. In fact, they had a hearing on that, and everybody showed up and was like, yeah, we want the minimum wage to be more than, you know, $7.25. (51:35–51:38)

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Asserts that there were enough votes to raise the minimum wage during the last trifecta.

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“We're usually around number five in terms of how high our property taxes are.”
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“It mandated that every single year, the Milwaukee Police Department has to have more officers and more dollars.”
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“If it doesn't, it reduces the amount that the state gives the city by 15% and throw it into bankruptcy.”
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“We're, I think at a $460,000 per child per year to incarcerate that child in our maximum security type facilities up north.”
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“Wisconsin is absolutely terrible at funding the arts. Last time I checked... we were 49th out of 50th.”
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“Trump just cut off [international aid], and having seen the effects of that aid, both in terms of, like, it's saving millions of lives per…”
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“In the Peace Corps was in the Philippines, like, in 2000, 2001.”
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“It showed me that it's really difficult to be a good ethical small business owner.”
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“We were a union shop, which is extremely unusual for the service industry.”
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“Folks in bars and restaurants are almost never unionized, and we encouraged that.”
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“We paid a living wage plus tips on top.”
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“We had health insurance. We offered retirement. We had paid time off.”
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“We just wrote a piece of legislation that would increase [the minimum wage] to $20 by 2026.”
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“Municipalities [should] set their own higher minimum wage because it costs more to live in Milwaukee or Madison.”
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“Our property taxes in Wisconsin are ridiculous. They're out of control.”
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“The state has not paid enough for education for more than a decade and a half.”
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“We can lower property taxes, and it would be over 40% almost overnight, by just taxing the rich.”
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“We add 1% on the highest earners, highest dollars.”
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“We bring that rate up to a little bit over 17%.”
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“I actually wrote and passed more legislation than anybody in modern history, going back to 2011, when digital records were kept.”
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“We made Milwaukee County a trans and non binary sanctuary.”
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“We fought for three and a half years to get free calling in our in the Milwaukee County Jail because visitation has been banned there in…”
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“The state can't actually fill a pothole, you know, especially if it's a if it's a local city issue.”
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“The Trump administration is trying to go after people snap benefits. They're trying to go after folks on Medicaid.”
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“We need to make sure that we, we have funds available, and we're going to get those funds, frankly, by taxing the extremely wealthy.”
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“I was the first democratic socialist elected in many years. I think since the 1950s.”
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“Fran Hogg is now leading in the poll, in the Marquette poll, which is the legitimate one not paid for by other candidates.”
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“That will make Fran Hong not just the first Democratic socialist governor in Wisconsin, but in United States history.”
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“One of the most powerful lobbies at the state is the realtors and developers.”
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“Every single state to some extent pays for education out of property taxes.”
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“Wisconsin will become the first state to [stop funding education through property taxes] when we do it.”
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“Police do not keep us safe. Police do not prevent crime. They just address it after the fact.”
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“Every dollar that we can take away from police and put into things that actually reduce crime, those are things like housing and public…”
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“All the data says that if we're locking more people up, you know, from our crimes for more years, that actually increases the crime rate.”
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“X12 just passed last session, and what that was was Republican legislation that gave Milwaukee just scraps of additional revenue, forced us…”
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“This piece of legislation said we support Israel and it called Palestinians barbarians.”
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“Public polling, even from Republicans, shows that people are increasingly very uneasy about the idea of supporting Israel's genocide.”
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“Gender markers on [your] driver's license, for example, have to match what's on your birth certificate [in Wisconsin].”
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