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Featuring: Sara Rodriguez, Democratic | Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin

Community Conversations at Brix with Sara Rodriguez

Published June 26, 2026 | Video Starts at 35:37

Right. And then what the assembly and Senate were concerned about was sort of a looming deficit for this next budget cycle. So we know that There's a structural deficit coming up mostly because of the Trump Tiffany economy. And they're even more worried about that because some of these cuts that are coming haven't happened yet. (35:37–35:43)

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Sara Rodriguez

“That is a 5% reduction in premiums every year with some cost transparency, expansion of Medicaid.”
Community Conversations at Brix with Sara Rodriguez | Uploaded June 26, 2026 | 15:03-15:10
“In Milwaukee, 50% of kids are on a voucher.”
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“A family would have to be making $185,000 a year to afford one child in child care [in Wisconsin].”
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“We have almost a billion dollars in deferred maintenance in the state parks right now.”
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“I was in Samoa in the South Pacific, did HIV, AIDS and reproductive health education.”
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“I've already gone to all 72 counties every year I've been lieutenant governor.”
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“I've been to all 72 counties every year that I've been lieutenant governor and have created relationships in all of those counties.”
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“I have endorsements in all 72 counties of leaders in their community.”
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“I was an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer with the Centers for Disease Control, did national international outbreak investigations.”
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“I was able to flip that district from red to blue with a four-term Republican incumbent.”
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“I'm the only one in the field who has proven that they can win a difficult race against a Republican.”
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“I won my primary statewide and then we won together in the general at three and a half percentage points.”
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“He [Governor Evers] has shown such incredible leadership for the last eight years, particularly within a hostile legislature.”
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“We got to flip two seats in the Senate, five in the Assembly.”
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“Four of those [Assembly seats] were within a percentage point when Trump was on the ballot.”
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“I have the most endorsements of sitting legislators today.”
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“I had put out a proactive policy for federal agents in the state of Wisconsin that the agents needed to be unmasked, clearly identifiable…”
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“We have to make sure that we are doing everything we can in Wisconsin, that people have access to affordable care.”
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“My plan for that is a public option on the exchange. It is based off of Colorado's model.”
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“We need rural health stabilization funds because we know that the cuts to Medicaid and Medicare are coming.”
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“We are going to have more hospitals closed in the state of Wisconsin, particularly in rural spaces.”
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“We need to do better in the state, and we need to ask our federal representatives as well to fix this on the federal level.”
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“Our administration had done an AI task force, brought in people from all over the country to talk about this very thing.”
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“We weren't necessarily able to get all of those [AI task force recommendations] within our budget because of the Republican led legislature.”
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“I haven't been for a moratorium [on data centers] and let me tell you why, but I am for like absolute statewide regulations.”
Community Conversations at Brix with Sara Rodriguez | Uploaded June 26, 2026 | 25:54-26:03
“They need to pay enhanced energy rates. So we know that if they're going to be using energy, it's going to have maintenance on the grid.”
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“If you want to build in Wisconsin, you got to invest in Wisconsin. So that means investing in renewables.”
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“This is a way that we can move closer to being carbon neutral by 2050, which is the goal.”
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“Water usage, we have to know how much. And if they're taking it out of the system and putting it back in, it needs to be at the same…”
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“The fines have to be real, with teeth. If it's a $10,000 fine for these billion dollar companies, that is the cost of doing business.”
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“Foxconn, what a debacle that was, right? It is not doing anything for the community yet.”
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“I've been to all 72 counties in this primary already because that's how we win in November.”
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“We have allowed Republicans to define who we are in rural spaces for too long.”
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“We are top 10 in the country for property taxes.”
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“We do not fund our municipalities and counties appropriately.”
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“We need to completely overhaul the formula of how we fund our cities and municipalities.”
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“When I represented a purple district, I had several red county executives and red mayors who came to me and said, this formula does not…”
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“We are going to have to cut services. We can't keep our library open, you know, seven days a week.”
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“We can't open the pools, you know, we can't. We have to close the bathrooms in the park because nobody to clean them because we can't afford…”
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“This is a bipartisan issue all across the state.”
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“More people are going to be on Medicaid, more people are on unemployment insurance, more are going to be on food assistance.”
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“The public option on the exchange is going to be a more affordable option for individuals.”
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“There's been really good legislation that kind of got squashed with the Republican led legislature.”
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“The funding formula [for schools] has not been updated in 30, almost 30 years.”
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“The Milwaukee public school system could not absorb [additional students].”
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“We reverse Act 10 in the state of Wisconsin.”
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“Federal government says for child care to be affordable, it should be no more than 7% of your income.”
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“We can have paid family leave and child care in a segregated fund.”
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“We actually proposed in our last budget, Governor and I, for paid family leave, specifically pre fund it with the surplus.”
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“The Public Service Commission is the regulatory body that says, yes, build solar, yes, build wind, or a coal powered plant or a new gas…”
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“Utility companies...cannot use what you are paying them to lobby within the state of Wisconsin.”
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“I would do an executive order to freeze [rate hikes] so we can put these changes in place.”
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“The $500 donation when I was in the assembly had nothing to do with any vote that I would have taken.”
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“The legislation as it was described also had tax incentives for small businesses.”
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“Eventually that same type of legislation was eventually passed through Act 12 with Governor Evers later on.”
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“I'm not taking corporate PAC money in this particular campaign.”
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“The DNR needs more resources to make sure that they can enforce the laws that are already on the books and they don't have the resources…”
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“If they end up selling twice as many stickers as they, you know, were anticipated to sell, that money does not necessarily go to the state…”
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“I proposed a Civilian Conservation Corps.”
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“My biggest concern is the environmental effects of [data centers].”
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“We should also be able to sue Big Tech if it harms our kids.”
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“Nobody has the resources that they need to be able to do what they need to do appropriately in any of those spaces.”
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“We need to fix the formula for how we fund cities and municipalities.”
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