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Tony Evers: “We've been able to fix the roads.”

Featuring: Tony Evers, Democratic | Governor of Wisconsin

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Published October 14, 2022 | Video Starts at 55:27

I'm just kidding, frankly. But it is a bunch of crap. Here's the deal. Our economy in the state of Wisconsin is strong. We are strong because we're Wisconsinites. We've been able to fix the roads. We've been able to provide resources for our public schools. We've cut taxes by 15% and we brought businesses to every corner of the state of Wisconsin. (55:27–55:30)

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Asserts that roads in Wisconsin have been fixed under Tony Evers' administration.

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“We've got the lowest unemployment ever and the highest number of people working ever.”
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“We have 70,000 undocumented people in the state of Wisconsin.”
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“Inflation is something that is a worldwide phenomenon.”
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“We're going to lower our taxes on our middle class folks in the state of Wisconsin by 10%.”
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“We're going to get rid of the minimum markup law on gasoline which could save people up to 30 cents on a gallon.”
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“The one that is most important is the one about child care, child care credit.”
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“We would increase shared revenue. Tried to do it in my first budget, try to do it in my second budget.”
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“If you look at the last 10 years of shared revenue...you see a 0, a 0, a 0 as far as how much money was provided to our municipalities.”
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“Next budget. It is my top priority. We're going to have a 4% each, each, each year of the biennium.”
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“Shared revenue will be increased by this administration.”
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“Universal background checks are one. Red flag laws are another.”
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“70, 80% of the people in Wisconsin said these are reasonable things we can do to provide safety in that arena.”
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“I have supported both of those [red flag laws and universal background checks].”
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“70 to 80% of the people in Wisconsin support this [red flag laws].”
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“I certainly believe that background checks should also be there. Universal background checks are just common sense.”
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“The last election was safe, secure, and there was not fraud.”
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“Voting rights are on this ballot.”
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“Women should have the ability and the right to make decisions about their health care, including reproductive health care, and that includes…”
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“We've had 50 years of Roe v. Wade, and it's worked here in the state of Wisconsin.”
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“We're only 12 of us that haven't taken Medicaid expansion or Badger Care expansion.”
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“We would be able to put good health care, good health insurance to 126,000 people in the state of Wisconsin that frankly don't have that…”
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“We would reap another billion dollars from the federal government to take issues such as and do and fix the issues around child and maternal…”
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“I've met all the legal parameters that are posted on for the governor of the state of Wisconsin.”
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“One of the reasons that that amount of money is in our rainy day fund and in our surplus, it is because we did the right thing during the…”
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“We took about a billion dollars of the money that we received from the federal government, from both the Trump administration and the…”
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“We've actually been able to increase solar in the state of Wisconsin.”
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“We're working with the Ojibwe on that issue as we speak with that DNR that apparently is so dysfunctional.”
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“We have been working on this problem for four years I've been in office.”
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“We're making progress in the Milwaukee area and across the state around lead laterals.”
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“The recently passed bill in the federal government is bringing funding in exactly for that.”
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“It's going to take us another three years to set standards because one person has decided not to leave the DNR board.”
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“CRTs are not taught in our schools and the ABCs are.”
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“We need to make sure that we have more special education money.”
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“We need to make sure that we have mental health money.”
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“We need to make sure that our literacy program is making the top readers in the state.”
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“I'm going to increase the budget.”
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“His plan right now is to take 40% of the funding away from our public schools.”
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“CRT is not taught in our schools.”
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“We put over a million dollars, or, excuse me, $100 million during the pandemic for the Milwaukee area and other places across the state of…”
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“I'm going to have 12% in this next budget for them.”
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“I just recently fired the head of the commission for this very reason. He did not take victim rights into account for one particular case.”
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“I have tried to get shared revenue increase.”
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“I did every single thing that was asked to me [during the Kenosha unrest].”
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“Our National Guard is only allowed to move if we are requested. And Kenosha asked us at 2 o'clock in the morning.”
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“We had National Guard there, and we doubled it every single day.”
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“Worker shortage is an issue in the state of Wisconsin.”
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“We spent a fair amount of money, I think it's about $100 million during the pandemic, allowing local people to think through what they…”
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“If those people [undocumented workers] would leave the agriculture industry, we would no longer be the dairy state.”
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“I certified the election last time.”
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“No matter who wins, my opponent or me, I will certify that election.”
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“Our economy in the state of Wisconsin is strong.”
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“We've been able to provide resources for our public schools.”
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“We've cut taxes by 15%.”
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“We brought businesses to every corner of the state of Wisconsin.”
WATCH: Full debate between Gov. Tony Evers, Tim Michels | Uploaded October 14, 2022 | 55:36-55:41
“Small businesses, over 6,000 right now, heading to 7,000.”
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“We've chosen a governor who, you know, on issues after issue after issue on abortion, on voting rights, on education, [proposes] radical…”
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