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The top Democrat in charge of the partys reelection efforts in the House said Sunday the partys candidates are ready to campaign with President Biden after several victories in Congress and at the ballot box.

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, pointed to the passage of several significant laws and special elections as evidence the party is poised to combat a Republican surge come November amid shifting momentum.

You better believe were going to stand with the president and say we passed in a bipartisan way better roads, better bridges, better health care for our veterans, Mr. Maloney told Fox News Sunday. Thats the kind of agenda that were standing in support of, and you see it working in the polls.

Despite Mr. Bidens poor approval rating in the polls and economic pains brought on by the highest inflation in four decades, the Democratic candidates in recent special elections in Alaska and New York proved triumphant over their GOP opponents.

Rather than a red tsunami, Democrats have become increasingly optimistic that they can stave off a Republican takeover of Congress. The GOP needs net gains of just one seat in the Senate and five in the House to capture control of the chambers.

Legislative victories, such as helping veterans exposed to toxins, boosting the domestic semiconductor chip industry, and a tax and climate spending bill aimed at lowering health care costs and spurring clean energy, are also buoying Democrats hopes.

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You better believe Democrats are going to celebrate that, Mr. Maloney said. So are the voters, and thats why weve been winning in special elections from Alaska to New York.

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Buoyed by the success of their counterparts in Kansas, Texas activists are determined to use Novembers midterm elections to kick-start the restoration of abortion rights.

But they have a much heavier lift than progressives in Kansas, where women voters powered the approval of a referendum in favor of abortion rights. Texas ballots wont include an up-or-down question on abortion, but there is a way to reverse the states ban: Fire Republican incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott and deliver the House and Senate to Democrats.

Thats unlikely to occur.

And unlike other states, Texas hasnt seen a wave of new women voters angry about the U.S. Supreme Court decision to strike down Roe vs. Wade.

Just over 309,100 Texans have registered to vote or updated their registrations since Aug. 15. Of that total, half are women. Residents have until Oct. 11 to match or exceed 544,000 the number of new or updated registrations in the 2018 midterms.

The unremarkable number of new registrations means abortion rights activists will have to persuade existing voters to toss out Republicans. Thats a tough task because the Texas electorate has more Republicans than Democrats, according to numerous analyses and election results. If Democrats want to restore abortion rights, theyll have to do so over time, instead of in one electoral cycle.

The political dynamic on abortion in Texas and Kansas is like night and day, University of Houston political scientist Brandon Rottinghaus said. Its hard to see the abortion issue directly mapping onto the Texas political landscape.

But he said Democrats have opportunities to make a major statement about the direction of the Lone Star State, where Republicans control both chambers of the Legislature and every executive office.

If there is a target on the abortion issue personified in a candidate, its Greg Abbott, Rottinghaus said. He was front and center for all of those battles and he definitely is going to get whatever rewards or benefits come from that.

Abbott is running for a third term against former U.S. Rep. Beto ORourke, D-El Paso.

Abortion rights activists also see opportunity in the attorney generals race, with a recent poll by The Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler showing Democrat Rochelle Garza in a dead heat with incumbent Ken Paxton.

They certainly can blame the fact that we lost abortion rights on the existing leadership, said former Texas Sen. Wendy Davis, who in 2014 challenged Abbott for governor after a filibuster that temporary stalled a restrictive abortion bill.

Abortion opponents say Republicans will win on the strength of their anti-abortion policies.

I dont think youre gonna see anything similar to what we saw in Kansas, said John Seago, president of Texas Right to Life, an anti-abortion group. But you are going to see in the governors race a real stark difference between pro-abortion voters and pro-life voters. And I think were going to show Texas is still strongly pro-life.

In anticipation of the Roe vs. Wade decision, Texas lawmakers passed a trigger mechanism that went into effect last month. The law bans all abortions, with exceptions for medical emergencies but not for rape or incest.

The outcry against the high courts decision and state bans led to mobilization efforts across the country, with an Aug. 2 Kansas referendum the first major test.

According to a New York Times analysis, Kansas women made up 50% of new voter registrants after a draft of the Supreme Court decision was leaked in May, and nearly two-thirds in the weeks after the official ruling. The Times reported that of those who cast a ballot in the August primaries for governor, 38% were Democrats, up from 33% four years ago.

Kansas is one of 10 states that, according to the analysis, has seen broad increases in women registering to vote.

Texas is not on that list.

Still, activists and veteran Democrats say the Roe vs. Wade decision has generated enthusiasm that will be reflected in the existing electorate.

We are seeing a lot of energy in Texas, in both our support base and the everyday persons, said Drucilla Tigner, a deputy director at Planned Parenthood Votes. Were determined to elect pro-choice candidates up and down the ballot.

Davis also said shes seen a real movement with moderates and independent women.

The News and UT-Tyler poll revealed that relatively few voters, 13% of the 1,384 Texans surveyed Aug. 1-7, said abortion should be illegal in all instances, and 25% said the procedure should be legal in all cases. Respondents were split when asked about most cases, with 31% who said it should be illegal and 30% who said legal.

More respondents said they disapproved of the Supreme Courts decision than approved, but those who said they approved of the ruling were slightly more likely to say they will vote in the Nov. 8 midterm elections.

The lack of new voters in an electorate that leans Republican gives GOP candidates confidence that the abortion issue wont rally Texans to vote against them. And some Republicans say the notion that theres high-octane energy in the states abortion rights movement is hype.

Theres more sound than action in what were seeing from the pro-abortion people, said Denton County Commissioner and former Denton County GOP chairwoman Dianne Edmondson. I really dont think that theyre going to have the numbers put together or the motivation to have any effect on the election.

Most Texas Democrats concede that Republicans have firm control of the Legislature and the states congressional districts, with last years redistricting process resulting in few swing districts.

So the beginning of any restoration process starts with statewide contests, most notably the race for governor.

ORourke has made reproductive rights a focal point of his campaign against Abbott. His first two television commercials featured Texans decrying the loss of abortion rights.

The Democrat has held several rallies in support of abortion rights, including one the day the states trigger ban went into effect that attracted several thousand people in Houston.

Texas today is the epicenter for a maternal mortality crisis that plagues this country, and it has been made worse by Greg Abbotts attack on women, ORourke told a group of Black supporters during a virtual event this week. Not only do I want to overturn this total abortion ban and ensure that every Texas woman makes her own decisions about her own body, her own future and her own health care, but I want to invest in connecting Black women with the kind of care that will ensure that they can survive their pregnancies, that they do not have to fear interactions with the medical community or with doctors.

Abbott is also talking about the issue, blasting ORourke as being in favor of abortions in any circumstance.

He not only believes in abortion to the very last minute before a fully developed child is given birth, but he was even against a law that would require a doctor to provide a medical care to a baby who soon survives abortion, Abbott said during a recording of Lone Star Politics, the Sunday political show produced by The Dallas Morning News and KXAS-TV (NBC 5).

In response to Abbotts charge, ORourkes campaign said, Beto has long supported the standard set by Roe v. Wade, which for half a century prohibited states from outlawing abortion in cases where the pregnancy threatened the life of the pregnant woman.

That standard allowed for women and their doctors to make this personal and often painful decision later in the pregnancy if the abortion was necessary to save the womans life.

ORourke has criticized Abbott for not supporting exceptions to the ban for rape and incest. Abbott says Texas is leading the way with alternatives for abortion, including emergency contraception.

While Texas Democrats would need an electoral sea change, Davis, the former state senator, said she hopes Garza would ignore or not enforce the states anti-abortion policies if elected. District attorneys in Dallas and other counties have said they dont plan to pursue charges against anyone under the abortion ban.

We need Rochelle Garza to sanction that statewide, Davis said.

Emilys List, a national group that backs women candidates who support abortion rights, is also backing Garza. The former civil rights lawyer has fought for the reproductive rights of migrant teens in detention. Paxton, who is also closely associated with the debate over abortion rights, is suing the Biden administration over federal rules requiring hospitals to provide abortions if the procedure is necessary to save a mothers life.

The Texas AGs race is such a clear example of the contrast, said Christina Reynolds, a spokesperson for Emilys List. You have a candidate in Rochelle Garza who has said that keeping Texans safe means ensuring that everyone has access to essential medical and health care procedures, which includes abortion. And then you have a candidate who literally is suing to block lifesaving abortion care when necessary for the health of the mother.

The reason for the close race could be a result of Paxtons legal problems, including a 2015 indictment on securities fraud charges and an FBI bribery investigation. Paxton has denied wrongdoing.

Abortion rights advocates remain hopeful Garza will gain momentum. But her latest campaign finance reports show $450,000 in her bank account, compared to Paxtons $3.5 million. Analysts say Garza, unknown to most Texans, needs at least $10 million to compete.

Seago, the Texas Right to Life president, said Paxton and other statewide Republicans wont suffer a backlash because of the Supreme Court decision.

Republicans have been talking about this issue nonstop for the last decade. It was the Democrats that avoided this topic, he said. Protecting life is always one of the top three (issues) and so this has always been a motivation for Texas voters.

All sides agree that November is just a continuation of what could be a decadeslong struggle.

Theres no way that you can reform Texas government in one quick election cycle, Rottinghaus said. Its going to be a very long battle.

Davis agreed.

Right now we have to get in the position where things dont get worse, she said.

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Fast forward three years and Fried is heading into Tuesdays Democratic primary for governor fighting for her political life against Rep. Charlie Crist, the former Republican Florida governor turned independent turned Democrat, who has decades of electoral experience.

Crist has outraised Fried, garnered more endorsements and managed to rally chunks of the traditional Democratic Party coalition to his side, including Floridas teachers union, the former head of the Democratic National Committee, environmental groups and Black faith leaders. Most polls show Crist leading Fried, including one that has Crist up by double digits.

Whoever advances through Tuesdays primary will take on Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in November, and to many Democrats the stakes couldnt be higher. They accuse the governor of near-authoritarian rule and routinely point out that hes more concerned with a potential White House bid in 2024 than helping Florida residents gain access to affordable housing or fix the states crumbling insurance market.

Yet even the most hopeful Democrats are aware of the difficulty they face in November. DeSantis has more than $132.5 million in his campaign war chest and has amassed enormous power in the state Legislature, which routinely approves his priorities. The electoral landscape has also shifted in Republicans favor with the GOP overtaking Democrats in voter registration last fall for the first time in the states modern political history.

I know if I lose, the people lose, Fried said in a recent interview. I know what Im fighting for.

Some of Frieds supporters are perplexed that Crist is viewed as the frontrunner, especially after the Supreme Court in June struck down federal abortion protections enshrined in Roe v. Wade, an issue that helped propel abortion rights to the forefront of campaigns across the nation. Since the ruling, Fried has attempted to energize voters who are incensed by the landmark decision. She has also spent the past three years aggressively dogging DeSantis on issues from pandemic response to his focus on culture war issues.

Nothing against other Democratic candidates, and whoever wins we will all rally around them, but I strongly feel a good Jewish girl from Broward County against someone like Ron DeSantis is something I think would be a great matchup, said state Rep. Kelli Skidmore, a Boca Raton Democrat who has endorsed Fried.

Throughout the primary, 44-year-old Fried has painted the 66-year-old Crist as a Democrat in name only, highlighting positions he held as a Republican that are very much outside modern Democratic orthodoxy. Crist for months tried to stay above the fray, but in the final weeks of the primary started attacking Fried over her ties to the business lobby and other groups long thought of as Republican-leaning, including the states powerful sugar industry. Fried was a marijuana lobbyist before she won her 2018 race to become the states agriculture commissioner.

Ive gone accurate, retorted Crist, when asked last week about his attacks on Fried in the closing days. He then added: Shes decided to do what shes done. Everyone has their own style.

And many top Democrats say Crist won them over with his style and approach hes known as a happy warrior who tries to avoid going negative and is seen as the best candidate to take on DeSantis. Crist has tried to depict himself as someone who will unify Florida while accusing DeSantis of tearing apart the state.

My gut and my experience tells me Charlie has the best shot at blocking DeSantiss extremist agenda, said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the former head of the Democratic National Committee and a longtime Democrat who has known Crist for 30 years.

For many Democrats, beating DeSantis is the top goal.

I think the litmus test for voters in this election is one question and one question only: Who is the best to beat Ron DeSantis, said Fernand Amandi, a Democratic pollster. Nikki was not able to answer that one question effectively, and Charlie has.

Throughout the primary, Crist methodically reached out to key constituencies for their backing, a move his campaign says helped build word of mouth and important support in what will likely be a low turnout race. Just a quarter of Democrats are expected to vote.

While Fried focused early on building up her profile on social media, particularly Twitter, Crist went on a charm offensive. He huddled with key blocks of the Democratic coalition and relied on them heavily when drawing up his policy positions. Crist whose evolution on issues such as abortion and gun control has been scrutinized by Fried took advice from those Democrats to change his stance on issues such as marijuana legalization, which he now favors. As a Republican governor, Crist signed into law bills that cracked down on marijuana grow houses and the sale of some smoking paraphernalia.

The strategy worked, and he picked up crucial endorsements from key lawmakers, such as state Sen. Shevrin Jones, a Black Miami-area Democrat who supported Fried early in the race.

It was a difficult decision for me because I have a relationship with Nikki, I was Team Nikki very early on, Jones said. But as the field opened up and I talked to people in my community, many local elected leaders were Team Charlie, and I found his message was resonating with these people on the ground.

Skidmore, the Broward County state representative backing Fried, said she thinks state Democrats missed an opportunity by not rallying behind someone they worked closely with in Tallahassee over the past few years to fight DeSantis.

There are those who think Crist has a better shot at beating Ron DeSantis, and we all want that, but I am just so bored of white guys running against white guys, Skidmore said. From a personal and professional and an extra X perspective, I just really want to support her.

A major turning point in the primary came when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, sending a jolt of momentum through contests across the country. Both Crist and Fried, like other Democrats, tried to harness the political energy, but Fried was perceived to have received the biggest bump.

The Supreme Courts ruling resonated loudly in Florida, which just months earlier had approved a ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy with no exceptions for rape or incest.

After Roe v. Wade, white women and suburban women who I talk to and thought would be in Charlies camp all of a sudden started to take a look at Nikki, said Brice Barnes, a Florida Democratic fundraiser. I do think after Roe v. Wade that you had women asking what does this mean for my daughter?

One of Frieds main lines of attack throughout the primary was Crists anti-abortion rights position while he was a Republican. As late as 2010, when making an unsuccessful bid for U.S. Senate, Crist said he supported pro-life legislative efforts. He has largely brushed off questions about his changing stance on the issue during the 2022 midterms and relied on the support of some of the states most vocal abortion-rights advocates, including state Rep. Anna Eskamani, an Orlando Democrat who previously worked for Planned Parenthood, and former Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, who made her own failed bid for governor in 2010.

Sink said she was wary of Crists record as a Republican even after he became a Democrat. But she said over the years Crist has won over many Democrats, which she says is why Frieds attacks on Crist over abortion rights and his having appointed conservative justices to the Florida Supreme Court as governor have not stuck.

In the race, he has gotten tangled up in the pro-life thing, and I appreciate that and acknowledge when he first became a Democrat I was skeptical and of the opinion you have to prove to me you can be a good Democrat, Sink said. But now he has been a Democrat so long, and has been 100 percent pro-choice over that time, that I think most Democrats are comfortable with him.

Sinks support of Crist over Fried is notable because she co-founded Ruths List Florida, a group that recruits and trains female political candidates who support abortion rights. Sink said she also supports Crist partly because his campaign seemed more viable, and she had a good working relationship with Crist when she served as the states chief financial officer during his one term as governor.

We have a long-standing relationship, and he has just always been very responsive to me, she said. I just did not develop that kind of personal relationship, even from a policy standpoint, with Nikki. That is what swayed me. I knew he was going to be able to build that big coalition needed.

Crists three decades in Florida politics, most spent as a Republican, brought him name recognition and a fundraising pipeline. But some Democrats see his perceived frontrunner status as evidence Fried didnt do enough to build a political network, which could have helped her create goodwill within the party and close the primary field.

Frieds campaign insists it can pull off an upset on Tuesday and have drained bank accounts in a frenzied push in the final moments. Some of those affiliated with Frieds campaign worked on Andrew Gillums 2018 bid for governor, when he surged in the closing week to score an upset in the Democratic primary. Gillum lost to DeSantis by about 35,000 votes.

Fried believes money will flow into her campaign on Aug. 24 if she wins the primary because her victory will be a shot in the arm that will attract national money and attention, she said in an interview at a recent campaign event. Fried also contended amid loud pushback from the Crist campaign that national donors will abandon the state if Crist wins.

During a campaign stop in Tallahassee last week, Fried said she had a lot more to lose than she did when she scored her upset win in 2018 to become the only Democrat elected to statewide office.

But she also acknowledged that she was surprised that Crist wound up being her primary opponent.

I didnt imagine in a million years that he would think that this would be a good time for him to re-run for governor. I dont know why hes in this race, she said in the interview. You talk to his own people, they dont think he can win in November. I have no idea why hes here. I know weve got a fighting chance.

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Alaskas special election for its lone U.S. House seat is still too early to call, but initial returns show Democratic candidate Mary Peltola leading the field. If she is elected, Democrats will have flipped a seat held by the late GOP Rep. Don Young for nearly 50 years, most of Alaskas history as a state.

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But Peltola told the Washington Examiner she hopes to carry on Youngs legacy of bipartisanship.

Don Young worked in a very bipartisan way, she said. He had more seniority than any other member of the House has ever had, and he welcomed every single congressman into their position, personally. So, he had a very long history of bipartisanship, and I want to emulate that, and I want to emulate his hard work on constituent issues.

Peltola praised Young for his work bringing critical infrastructure to our new state that has a lot of really challenging terrain.

It's very hard to build infrastructure and maintain infrastructure in Alaska, and he was so good at that, he really transformed the airports in Alaska to be much more safe than they had been, Peltola said. His role on Resources and Transportation made all the difference for our growing state. So, I think it will mean a lot to Democrats, if a Democrat is elected, but I just really want to continue his legacy of fighting for all Alaskans.

The special election to fill the seat for the remainder of Youngs term following his unexpected death in March is a test case for the Frontier States new voting system, which allows four candidates to advance from a primary election, in which dozens of candidates competed in a so-called jungle primary on one ballot, with the top four vote-getters advancing to another round.

Early returns show Peltola leading a field that also includes Republicans such as ex-Gov. Sarah Palin and businessman Nick Begich III, who is from a prominent family of Alaska Democrats. Independent candidate Al Gross, who also advanced from the primary, said shortly thereafter that he would withdraw from both the special and general elections.

Peltola led Palin 38% to 32%, with 82% of the votes counted as of Friday evening. But regardless of who wins the special election to finish Youngs term, Peltola, Palin, and Begich will compete in November, as will a fourth, yet-to-be-determined candidate.

So, who is Peltola, the front-runner to flip Alaskas only House seat?

Peltola told the Washington Examiner she grew up helping her fathers salmon fishing business from the time she was about 6 years old.

He was very, very cheap and didn't want to hire a real crew member, she joked.

Peltola began her career as a herring and salmon technician for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game before running for the state legislature, mounting an unsuccessful bid at 22. Two years later, after she was married and expecting a child, she won a seat in the statehouse, where she remained for 10 years.

During her time in the legislature, Peltola said, she was a member of and then a chair for the Bush Caucus, a bipartisan group of legislators from rural parts of the state, and she enjoyed the across-the-aisle cooperation they shared.

It was a different era, the 1900s, she quipped. There was so much more civility and cooperation at that time.

She later joined the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission to protect salmon runs in the state. Peltola and her husband Gene have seven children and two grandchildren.

Unless the top vote-getter in the U.S. House race has more than 50% of the vote once all initial ballots are counted which does not appear to be the case in this race, according to the initial returns the elections division will then count voters' ranked choices. The last-place candidate is then eliminated, with his or her voters subsequent choices going toward their next choice's tally. The process goes on for as many rounds as it takes until one candidate reaches a threshold of 50% plus one vote and is declared the winner.

Under state law, Alaskas Division of Elections must count every ballot before it begins tabulating ranked votes. The state permits ballots mailed from overseas voters to be accepted until Aug. 31 as long as they are postmarked by Election Day, so the candidates and the state must wait until then to know who will fill Youngs seat for the remainder of his term.

Peltola seemed undeterred by the prospect of waiting weeks for official results and offered praise for her Republican rivals, saying she had a friendly relationship with both, especially Palin, whom she knew during her time in the legislature.

Sarah was governor the two years that coincided with my last two years in the state House, and we happened to be pregnant at the same time with our now 14-year-olds, Peltola said.

The states ranked-choice voting process has been criticized in some quarters as messy and confusing for voters, but Peltola offered praise for it, saying it opens new avenues of discussion between voters and candidates across party lines and can help reduce partisanship.

I'm very optimistic because these closed party primaries have led to a situation where Republicans are trying to out-Republican each other, and we end up with candidates who are very, very extreme, and sometimes even fringe, who are then representing people who are mostly very middle of the road, she said.

Peltola said, People are now conditioned to expect it to be ugly, and it doesnt have to be that way.

At an event featuring all three candidates, Peltola said she spoke with voters bearing Palin or Begich signs, asking them to consider ranking her as their second choice.

If I see someone with a Sarah sign or a Nick sign, I can certainly understand why that's their first choice. And I'm so hopeful that they would consider me as their second choice. And I think they were just surprised to see somebody say, Hey, I get it, thats a great person, but I'm not so bad either.

As the ranked choices are tabulated, it is those second choices that could make all the difference.

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Sara Rodriguez,an Assembly representative in the state Legislature, capturedthe Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor after romping to victory in the Democratic primary.

Rodriguez will be campaigning alongside incumbent Gov. Tony Evers to fend off a challenge from construction executive Tim Michels this fall.

Here is a look at Rodriguez, a Democrat from Brookfield, as voters head into the general election.

Rodriguez was first elected to the Legislature in 2020, flipping a Republican-held district in the suburbs of Milwaukee and narrowly defeating four-term Republican incumbent Rob Hutton by just over 700 votes.

Before entering electoral politics, Rodriguez worked in the health care sector as a registered nurse and held a variety of positionsincludingthe principal of a health care consulting firm, the vice president of clinical services at Honeywell Life Care Solutions and a Centers for Disease Control epidemic intelligence officer.

Rodriguez, 47, is from Brookfield where she attended high school and now lives with her husband and two children. She graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University and earned a masters in nursing from Johns Hopkins University.

Rodriguez is a relative newcomer to the Legislature but has sponsored legislation to require cloth face coverings in certain settings, implement ranked choice voting in Wisconsin, facilitate automatic voter registration and establish a student loan repayment program.

Rodriguez has also been a vocal advocate for expanding access to abortion and campaigned on addressing health care staffing shortages in Wisconsin.

When she announced her candidacy, Rodriguez said:"I can be a really good partner to Gov. Evers in something as large and as complicated as the Wisconsin state government, but most importantly, public health is my passion."

Rodriguez said that as lieutenant governorshe would bring experience as a nurse and public health professional, "working in diverse communities to make sure that we can create environments where people can succeed."

Democratic Party spokeswoman Hannah Menchhoff said:As a nurse and as a public health professional, Rep. Rodriguez brings valuable experience to the statewide election. When we talk about doing the right thing for Wisconsinites, its people like Rep. Rodriguez who have dedicated themselves to making Wisconsin a better place to live and work.

"By flipping a Republican-held seat in 2020, she has also proven her ability to connect with voters and win tough races. We are excited to have Rep. Rodriguez on the ticket and know her campaign will only make the ticket even stronger," she added.

Rodriguez was elected to the Legislature two years ago by a slim margin but won the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor in a 245,000-vote landslide.

Rodriguez can be reached at her Madison office by calling 608-267-9836 or emailing rep.SRodriguez@legis.wisconsin.gov.

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