Stevens Point Mayor Mike Wiza speaks at a Get Out The Vote event at UWSP. MWC photo by Mike Leischner
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – Sara Rodriguez is one of the seven democrats in the running for her party’s nomination for governor. She won the straw poll at last weekend’s state party convention.
Perhaps this is her moment. Or, perhaps, as the current lieutenant governor, she won because she’s known to her party’s insiders. Regardless, let’s take a look at some of her campaign positions.
She favors capping daycare costs at 7% of a family’s income. Someone who earns $50,000 a year would pay no more then $65 a week for childcare. Government grants would pay the rest.
She favors expanding Badgercare by accepting federal funding. Wisconsin would be required to widen Badgercare eligibility permanently, even after the federal dollars run out. It’s an idea that Republicans in the state legislature have rejected repeatedly.
She has a housing affordability proposal that would build more housing, and would offer more downpayment assistance for new homebuyers.
Her properly tax relief plan calls for the state increasing its share of school funding. She’s silent on Governor Evers Frankenstein veto that increases school funding automatically for the next 435 years.
All of these ideas are expensive. Her campaign web site says nothing about how to pay for them. But you and I know… taxes would go up. Of course, she uses the catchphrase that the rich must pay their fare share. She doesn’t say exactly what their fair share is.
Mandela Barnes has more money and more name recognition. Francesca Hong is more liberal. They are much more likely to be the Democrat’s nominees for governor.
Chris Conley
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