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Sarah Keyeski: “I'm on the Agriculture and Revenue Committee.”

Featuring: Sarah Keyeski, Democratic | Wisconsin State Senate, District 14

Columbia County Progress, Episode 9: Talking with Senator Sarah Keyeski

Published July 31, 2026 | Video Starts at 18:09

… educated populace that then drives our economy with innovation, with learnedness, that really develops our economic base so that we can be a flourishing state. And the other one is, I'm on the Agriculture and Revenue Committee. And for me, as a person that grew up in cash in Wisconsin, that was a town of about 850 people. And for me, small town America is just like my heart. (18:09–18:13)

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Asserts her membership on the Agriculture and Revenue Committee.

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“The maps that he signed made the district that I was running in at the time, it made it into a more blue district.”
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“That Senate seat was against an incumbent. It was about a 50, 50 Senate seat.”
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“The legislature's calendar is developed by whatever party is in charge, currently the Republicans, and has been for the last 15 years.”
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“We were only scheduled to work until March, and then the rest of the time from March to November is really sort of open.”
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“From March till January, very little is done in the frame of policymaking, passing anything that can be meaningful.”
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“There's a study committee on AI and healthcare that I'm going to be on.”
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“Small family farmers struggling to make it and being concerned about being able to pay their loans because the price of everything is going…”
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“There's more of a sense from the Republican side of the aisle that government is wasteful and ineffective.”
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“If we don't do that, we don't have a society that collectively benefits from public schools, police, roads, bridges.”
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“We, as a state, as a legislature, those that have been in charge, have not really fulfilled our constitutional obligation to provide the…”
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“If you have a decrease in your enrollment, you get less money.”
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“Salaries need to go up to be able to keep teachers.”
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“Insurance prices have gone up for all of us and schools.”
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“Schools have had to say, if things pretty much stay relatively level, all of our costs are still going up.”
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“They're constantly having to go to referendum to make up the difference of operational costs just to operate.”
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“The governor, who is retiring, and Devin LeMahieu and Speaker Voss, the head of Senate and Assembly, also retiring.”
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