🧵 doesn't care about addressing #mentalhealth needs in WI. Mental health issues are increasing worldwide & our state is not an exception to this trend. Mental health issues know no boundaries - our veterans, our farmers, our brothers, & yes, our students are impacted.
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Sen. Kelda Helen Roys is a progressive Democratic leader representing Wisconsin's 26th Senate District, including most of Madison and all of Shorewood Hills.
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Did you just hear PFAS announcement?!
"I’m proposing to invest more than $100 million to take a three-pronged approach to confront PFAS across
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We see the childcare shortage play out in Madison and it’s even more prevalent in rural communities where families have far fewer options. Fewer childcare slots mean fewer workers able to rejoin the workforce.
Workforce development conversations start here.
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Let's get to work!
Communities around the state need these responsible investments. We need more early childhood educators and trained caregivers in every part of the state.
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On child care:
- expansion of the Child and Dependent Care Credit, to provide nearly $30 million in tax relief for more than 100,000 people
- $340 million for child care providers to help with operating costs, wages
- $22 million to expand employer/child care partnerships
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In his State of the State address, just announced we're going to make "Get Kids Ahead" a permanent state program and invest more than $270 million in student mental health services.
Our kids deserve to be able to be their best selves both in and out of the classroom.
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Mental and behavioral health is as much a health issue as it is an economic one—it affects our kids in the classroom, whether workers can join and stay in our workforce, and folks' ability to provide for their family.
That's why I'm declaring 2023 the Year of Mental Health.
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Our kids need us to invest in public schools — and our businesses do too. People will choose to live and work here when they know, once again, that we are committed to our children.
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Putting children first is the right thing to do for our kids and it’s the right thing to do for our state's economy. In the past, Wisconsin has been a model for the country by doing the right thing for our children.
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.@GovEvers in his State of State:
"I am going to deliver on the promise I made before the election to use a portion of our state’s historic surplus to make an historic investment in our kids and our schools."
The fight over K-12 funding will be one of the biggest this year
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Grateful and excited have the opportunity to watch Gov. Evers deliver the State of the State again this year!
I hope you'll join me by watching at 7 p.m. on PBS Wisconsin or Wisconsin Eye.
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Don't delay! The Wisconsin Emergency Rental Assistance Program will close applications on January 31. If you need help with rent, go to doa.wi.gov/Pages/WERA.aspx today to see if you are eligible and apply.
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Abortion care is health care. The people of Wisconsin will make that clear given the opportunity to voice their preference in a statewide advisory referendum. and are introducing a joint resolution to hear directly from you, the people of Wisconsin.
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Oh great, this piece uncritically quotes a lawsuit filed by WILL, an organization that has admitted on the record to spreading lies to right-wing media sources to create an anti-trans panic.
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Also this week, Senate Dems called for GOP WEC Vice Chair to resign. In a memo, Spindell boasted about declining MKE voter turnout.
Is a negative ad campaign really voter suppression? says, when you consider the overall GOP to election law, it is.
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Today should have been the 50th Anniversary of #Roe.
Abortion is healthcare. are united on this issue.
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Report: Mothers in states with abortion bans nearly 3 times more likely to die
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.: "In the famous words of Maya Angelou, ‘when someone shows you who they are, believe them.' And I want Republicans to know that communities of color know exactly who they are, and we believe what we see.”
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Senate Dems are calling for GOP commissioner @BobSpindell to resign from the Wisconsin Elections Commission or for Senate Majority Leader @SenatorDevin to rescind his appointment if he refuses the call.
wispolitics.com/2023/dems-call
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Senate Democrats are united in calling for the resignation of Wisconsin Elections Commissioner Bob Spindell.
Voter turnout is and should be a point of pride in Wisconsin. The role of the WEC should be increasing democratic engagement, not the opposite.
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Happening at 10am CT: WI State Director joins to call for the resignation of WEC commissioner Bob Spindell after his comments celebrating voter suppression.
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Tony Evers, Democrats propose adding an advisory abortion referendum to the spring ballot.
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The wealth of the top 1% increased by $6.5 trillion in 2021, but the pandemic hasn't been as great for millions of Wisconsin families.
With inflation eating away at paychecks and families tightening their belts, the last thing we need is a massive tax cut for the mega rich.
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When we deliver tax relief, it should be targeted to the middle class to give working families a little breathing room—not to give big breaks to millionaires and billionaires who don't need the extra help to afford rising costs.
That's just common sense.
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If we want equal opportunity, regardless of race, class, geography, we must invest in kids & public education.
Consider marking the day by reading Dr. King’s 1966 essay, taking stock of our progress/struggle. It's remarkably relevant.
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We need to enact policies for #reprojustice & ensure comprehensive #healthcare for all.
#Publicschools are chronically underfunded, even as WI has $6.6 billion surplus, and too many parents lack safe and affordable #earlychildhood education.
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This appalling, racist commentary is offensive & wholly inappropriate for someone appointed to oversee the fair admin of voting laws. He needs to go.
Maternal mortality is 5x for Black women v. white — it will get worse as Republicans have ensured abortion is criminalized again
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Especially for those of us who are white, it should be a day to recommit to doing meaningful work towards racial equity.
Recently, WI Elections Commissioner Bob Spindell celebrated the GOP’s success in suppressing the votes of Black and Hispanic voters.
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I celebrate and reflect on the legacy of #MartinLutherKingJr. We have no shortage of reminders as to how far we still must go to realize his vision of racial & economic justice. It’s not enough to post famous quotes and comfort ourselves with the progress that has been made.
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A Republican election official literally bragged about suppressing votes in communities of color in the largest, most diverse city in the nation’s most closely contested swing state.
Explain to me why this is not a major national story. Seriously.
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The GOP’s flat tax proposal makes it clear that they care more about a massive tax cut for the wealthiest than real relief for working families and the long term wellbeing of our state.
The people of Wisconsin deserve better. Hard pass.
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No surprise that priority #1 for Republicans in congress is to defund the tax police. Their party is led by a wealthy tax cheat. Great for billionaires who want to buy politicians, terrible for the rest of us and our democracy.
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We are now listening to the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (😬) try to confuse everyone in the room with legal jargon – all while claiming that LGBTQ+ people have “dignity and value” and deserve compassion as they “seek counseling.”
isn’t having it.
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The evidence is overwhelming that conversion therapy has no therapeutic value and is in fact harmful to patients, increasing the risk that they will experience depression, shame, decreased self-esteem, social withdrawal, substance abuse, and suicidality.
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“At the age of 16, I came out to my father. A licensed professional told him that there is no such thing as being gay. My diagnosis was that I was not allowed to speak to my mother or sisters for three years.” - , a survivor of conversion therapy from
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I am proud to have testified on behalf of alongside , , , , , and so many more to defend a lifesaving rule protecting #LGBTQ youth from #conversiontherapy.
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“LGBTQ+ youth are more than 2.5x more likely to attempt suicide. Suicide is multi-faceted, but we do see these correlations. The data is consistent and it does not lie.” - @CaseyJPick from the @TrevorProject
“Conversion therapy is perhaps the highest form of family rejection.”
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For - LGBTQ youth who live in a community that is accepting of LGBTQ people reported significantly lower rates of attempting suicide than those who do not according to the 2022 National Survey from thetrevorproject.org/survey-2022/#k via
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We’re live from the Joint Committee for the Review of Administrative Rules, testifying on behalf of LGBTQ+ youth and fighting to keep Wisconsin’s conversion therapy ban on the books.
Follow along with us 👇🧵
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“Is there any mainstream health organization that supports conversion therapy as a legitimate practice? No. There are none.” -
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The harm is proven. We need to protect our children.
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Democratic member today called on Republican to resign after Spindell bragged in an email to Republicans about what he said were successful GOP efforts to suppress voter turnout among Blacks and Hispanics
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Finally got my hands on a paper copy! Thank you for honoring me as a 2023 Person to Watch!
captimes.com/melissa-agard-
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