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Sara Rodriguez: “RFK Jr [is] linking random things like Tylenol and autism…”

Featuring: Sara Rodriguez, Democratic | Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin

From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History

Published November 22, 2025 | Video Starts at 12:19

And I've always said, go to the cdc. That's a great place. I can't sing that anymore because you've got RFK Jr [is] linking random things like Tylenol and autism, which we know does not actually have a link. that is dangerous for people and people are going to be harmed. It's so dangerous. (12:19–12:28)

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Asserts that RFK Jr is falsely linking Tylenol and autism.

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“We are one of two states that does not cover women postpartum for 12 months.”
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“The average age for somebody to buy a house for the first time is 40 years old.”
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“$13,000 a year for child care for one child.”
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“Rents in Wisconsin are higher than Texas. They're higher than Austin, Texas.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 29:40-29:46
“We can bring back workers rights.”
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“That [making child care affordable] would put an enormous amount of dollars back in people's pocketbooks which will support the economy.”
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“The assembly and Senate hadn't met for eight months [during Covid].”
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“I flipped that district. It was a purple, probably a little light red district when I flipped it.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 04:25-04:32
“I'm going on a 72 county listening tour, going to every single county in the state.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 05:29-05:36
“There was an enormous heroin epidemic at the time [in Baltimore].”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 06:16-06:35
“It was pre Affordable Care Act, where people didn't have access to coverage, didn't have access to insurance.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 06:28-06:35
“Republicans are wanting to bring us back to that time [pre Affordable Care Act].”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 06:44-06:49
“We're looking at premiums doubling for people because they are getting rid of the subsidies on the exchange and the Affordable Care Act.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 08:44-08:54
“With these Medicaid cuts, it is gonna hit rural Wisconsin way more than it is going to hit suburban Wisconsin or urban Wisconsin.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 09:32-09:42
“The federal government is making cuts across the board to Medicaid.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 09:41-09:49
“Wisconsin could face really severe [healthcare workforce] shortages.”
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“We actually had an ob GYN shortage even prior to when Roe fell.”
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“After that 1849 abortion law, [OBGYN residents] decided that it was not safe to practice, and they went to a different state.”
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“We are one of 10 states that has not expanded Medicaid to cover additional people.”
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“President Trump and his administration and the Republican leadership in Washington is really a huge challenge for us. It is absolutely…”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 23:16-23:33
“We cannot no longer rely on the federal government that we're going to have to, to work together with the other states.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 24:01-24:07
“If we have A Republican in the governor's position in the state of Wisconsin. All that chaos you see in Washington, it's all going to…”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 24:44-24:55
“We have just a lack of affordable housing.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 26:14-26:18
“What they can afford is around 100, $150,000 home that simply doesn't exist in the marketplace today.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 26:51-26:58
“New Mexico is fully funding it [child care] for everybody.”
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“Vermont is working with employers to make sure that we can have funding and subsidizing it up to very high levels, up to upper middle class.”
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“We have got to make sure we are fully funding our public schools in the state of Wisconsin.”
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“We have got to restore union bargaining rights in the state.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 28:27-28:31
“We reverse Act 10, which took away union bargaining rights.”
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“We need more supply of housing and we need to make sure that we are prioritizing homeownership.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 29:48-29:55
“We should be enshrining Roe within the state of Wisconsin.”
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“Tom Tiffany... is extraordinarily extreme on abortion. We're talking absolute bans, no exceptions for rape or incest.”
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“We just have to flip two seats in the Senate.”
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“The assembly is a little harder, but it's doable. We got to keep the seats we have. Flip five more.”
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“Union bargaining rights is one of the number one things I'm going to have to restore.”
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“Working on housing and childcare to actually make a real difference in people's lives is going to be a priority.”
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“Looking at the funding for school systems, public schools in the state of Wisconsin.”
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“We need different voices around the table and particularly healthcare voices because we know it from the inside.”
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“We know how complicated [the healthcare system] is and we know how broken it is.”
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“There was a physician that ran on one of the local school boards during COVID and he was such a respected physician that they didn't have…”
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“The one thing that I want to make sure that I accomplish is making sure that child care is affordable for everybody.”
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“We know the [child care] system's broken.”
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“If we can put sustainable progress in place to make sure child care is affordable, that we are able to subsidize it all the way up to…”
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“I'm hoping that we have a government that works well, that people can access easily, that we have streamlined services so that there is only…”
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“Even if we can't reverse Act 10, we can still put in those labor management practices.”
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