Not only is that just plain wrong, but it also means that LGBTQ Plus Americans face a confusing web of local and state laws that make it difficult to understand what their rights are. Wisconsin farmers need more access to developing markets around the world, especially in emerging markets like North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. I want to give Tammy Baldwin a true partner in the United States Senate. I decided to run because for over a decade, Wisconsinites have only had one Senator fighting for them in Washington. } else { } I am committed to fight to help raise wages, bring real investment back to Wisconsin, and work every day to help make peoples lives better. display: inline-block; According to his latest financial declaration, Alex Lasry, who is the team's senior vice-president, owns an interest worth more than $50mn.

| .mw-body #mw-content-text .votebox .race_header h3.votebox-header-office-name { Counties | For too long, critical infrastructure that was built more than a generation ago has not received the care and maintenance that it needs. } When people have good benefits, a good paying job, and job security, Wisconsin will be a hub of economic activity and people. font-weight: bold; .race_header, .results_text, .results_table_container, .votebox_legend { Lasry has done so much at the young age of 33. } .results_text { We also dont just talk about a 15 dollars minimum wage; we turned our promise into action. In building the Bucks Arena and the surrounding Deer District, we brought together a public/private partnership that emphasized workforce development. }); What's on my ballot? Its a vicious cycle that we must break. .mw-body #mw-content-text th.votebox-results-cell--text { I worked with both Democrats and Republicans on the successful bid showing that it is possible to work across the aisle to get things done for the people of Wisconsin. } Systemic racism can be seen everywhere from policing practices to environmental impacts on communities of color to housing and employment discrimination. Capitalizing and Incentivize Business Location Decisions. Its time to enact a Workers Bill of Rights. width: 57%; Many rural communities lack any access to drug treatment professionals or programs. .mw-content-ltr td.votebox-results-cell--text, background: #4c4c4c; We need to significantly increase the monetary damages for this type of behavior. margin-top: 0px; Prison gerrymandering counts people in prison in the communities where the prison is located, not in the community they came from and are likely to go back to. background-color: #dac113; Milwaukee Bucks senior vice president Alex Lasry announced a 2022 run for Senate in the swing state of Wisconsin. width: 50%; We need action and we need it now. The Wisconsin State Legislature has done everything they can to disinvest from the University system over the last dozen years. display: inline-block; } Congress must act to update this law before the 2024 presidential election, clarifying and strengthening the provisions to ensure that ambiguities and weaknesses of the existing law cannot be used to undermine democracy. Grant Statehood to the District of Columbia and Let Puerto Rico Self Determine. .indicate_scroll { .leg-hnt-leadership-title { } .widget-row.value-only.white { Investing in Agricultural Research and Development through the UW-System. .votebox-results-cell--number { Mandela Barnes to take on Republican Sen. Ron Johnson. Access to clean, safe drinking water is increasingly under threat in Wisconsin. Lack of access to high-speed Internet is a problem in both rural and urban communities across Wisconsin. We cannot have someone who believes that only Republicans should decide who gets to vote and administer elections in Congress when voting rights are being discussed. Senator Baldwin is taking that work one step further through her Made in America Act to strengthen Buy America requirements for the federal government in order to support American businesses, manufacturers, and workers. They desperately want to divide and conquer us and are constantly trying to stoke division. This is a clear and present danger and Congress must act immediately. I believe that any agreement must be directly negotiated by Israeli and Palestinian leaders, with the United States playing a supportive role. } text-align: left; .widget-row { box-sizing: border-box; But we cant stop there. }) Workers in the United States have been losing ground since the early 1980s. This should all be done in an effort to provide local options for students to stay in their communities. padding-top: 8px; Finally, we must require employers to publicly report expenditures that are spent on anti-union campaigns. I will do everything that I can to help raise wages, bring jobs and investment back to Wisconsin, and enact legislation that will make peoples lives better no matter where they live. Alex Lasry, a Milwaukee Bucks executive who largely self-funded a Senate campaign in Wisconsin, dropped out of the Democratic primary on Wednesday, leaving Lt . Extending paid family and medical leave to the approximately would impact nearly 32 million private sector workers, disproportionately women and people of color. Access to quality child care is a crisis in this country and helping to improve it could help bring more people back into the workforce at a time when we desperately need more workers. Alex Lasry, an executive with the Milwaukee Bucks NBA team, is ending his bid for the Democratic Senate nomination in Wisconsin, becoming the second candidate this week to exit the race and. width: 35px !important; My plan has been to talk directly with every voter that we can, whether its in an urban, suburban, or rural area. The only way we can follow through on our promises is by passing legislation through Congress, and then letting voters register their approval or disapproval at the ballot box. Click here to contact our editorial staff, and click here to report an error. While we need to strengthen industrial labor law through the federal PRO Act, we must also be aware that todays economys largest sector is the service industry. padding-left: 8px; If elected U.S. color: #888; We need to do all that we can to give democracy back to the people, and that means reducing the influence of special interest money in politics to ensure that all citizens have an equal say in our democracy. Israel is dear to my heart, especially having grown up in a religious household. width: 100%; Alex Lasry was born in New York City to Marc and Cathy Lasry (ne Cohen). We have since seen other candidates take that pledge, but it rings hollow when candidates that have taken corporate PAC money in the past now claim to reject it. We need to think differently about our tax policy. The proposals in this plan will have a direct effect on easing supply chain problems, help lower inflationary pressure on prices, and help create more jobs in every part of this state. } July 27, 2022. One year ago, our country witnessed something that has never been seen in the United States , a sitting President and his followers attempted to disrupt and stop the peaceful transfer of power. I will focus on actually legislating, breaking gridlock, and delivering real results for Wisconsin. .top_disclaimer { } Congress should require every employer to guarantee 20 days of paid leave per year for every full-time employee. We need to help raise wages for all workers and make sure we are bringing manufacturing jobs back to Wisconsin. The United States must continue its historic and special role as Israels strongest ally. Insurrectionists did not like the outcome of the election and they tried to discard the voice of the People. Alex has a strong family background. Access to universal health care will free workers to take a chance, get a better education, train for new skills, or even start the next great Wisconsin business. Alex Lasry. I strongly oppose all efforts to undermine the Antiquities Act and, in the Senate, will ensure it stays in place. It often seems that the number one export from Wisconsin is our children. display: inline; color: black; Whether it is inadequate access to affordable healthcare, unsafe drinking water, a lack of access to high-speed broadband, crumbling infrastructure, educational challenges, or vanishing economic opportunity, our communities need help. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Likewise, healthcare should not be a barrier for a person with variable employment but wants to ensure that their family is still covered. } Union dues were deductible prior to the 2017 Trump Tax Law. Lasry was a Democratic candidate in the 2022 United States Senate election in Wisconsin, but withdrew before the primary. Classify most gig workers as employees for union rights purposes. Im on leave as the Senior Vice President of the Milwaukee Bucks. [7][25], Lasry lives in Milwaukee with his wife and daughter in a historic mansion on Milwaukee's east side. We also need to reinvest in our police training too. The loss of manufacturing in rural areas has been devastating for local communities. Wisconsin has a proud history of having a geographically diversified manufacturing base. Lyft, DoorDash, and Grubhub force gig workers to either accept changes to their contracts that allow those corporations to take more money away from gig workers, or the workers are blocked from getting additional gigs through the app. .inner_percentage.Green { It is vital that we not only protect public transportation but expand and modernize it. .widget-row.Republican { Alex Lasry wants to flip the script on Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, who has long cast himself as a political outsider in his 12 years in the U.S. Senate. Estimates of workers access to paid leave across the country suggest that only between 19 percent to 50 percent of all employees have either formal access to paid family leave through an employer or can take paid time off even in the absence of a formal benefit plan. We need to market our rural areas as more affordable, especially as home prices in cities continue to skyrocket. I want to give Tammy Baldwin a true partner in DC to put money back in the pockets of hard working Wisconsinites and bring some real change and real results for the people of Wisconsin. I hear the same thing from voters no matter where they live: Wisconsinites want good jobs, family sustaining wages, access to quality affordable healthcare, and access to economic opportunity. } margin: 0 5px; We are seeing both the federal and state governments invest to ensure that all Wisconsinites have access to affordable high-speed internet, but more needs to be done. Our generation is now being called to do our part to protect democracy. margin-top: 1em; The last payments went out in December and Congress needs to extend what has proven to be one of the most effective programs it has ever passed. The value of NBA franchises has ballooned since the Bucks were purchased for $550 million back in 2014. } A June Marquette University Law School poll had Barnes just a few points ahead of Lasry,. width: 250px;

. .race_header.republican { We have a graying crisis all across Wisconsin, but it is most acute in our rural communities. Congress should preempt these statewide restrictions and allow cities and counties to have the ability to innovate locally on consideration of wages. We are in an unprecedented time in recent history where both business and the government understand the vital need to bring back critical manufacturing to the United States. Instead of handing out corporate tax breaks across the board, we should only be rewarding companies that are doing the right thing. }. This will take work from the Wisconsin congressional delegation, working with state and local officials. He isnt only dangerous for Wisconsin, but for the entire country. He and his wife Lauren live in Milwaukee. padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: center; background-color: #003388; (Nov 2019) We pay all our employees family-sustaining wages. In the Senate I will join Tammy Baldwin and insist that the federal government buys construction materials that are made in the U.S.A. for all future infrastructure projects. We also must reform the H-2A temporary visa process to be streamlined, expedited, and for it to provide certainty for farmers who desperately need workers. Alex Lasry, a Democratic candidate for the Senate in Wisconsin, plans to drop out of the primary race Wednesday, his campaign confirmed. Healthcare simply costs too much, especially for seniors. Unions make businesses better. [4][6] At the time, Lasry's father was a client of Goldman Sachs. The time for leadership is now. border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa; border: 1px solid #999; Alex Lasry, a senior vice president of the Milwaukee Bucks and son of the team's billionaire owner, announced Wednesday that he's running as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate in 2022 for the seat. [21], In August 2020, when members of the Bucks supposedly leaked to NBA reporter Shams Charania that they were attempting to reach Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul after the Kenosha police shooting of Jacob Blake, records show that Lasry texted a staffer of Kaul's to say that he "yelled at the players" over the leak. I live in Milwaukee with my wife Lauren, Chief of Staff for Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. Unions make businesses better. Curtailing the Influence of Special Interests. $('.showResponses').show(); background-color: #f9f9f9; Historically, lower density population areas have made it economically undesirable for private providers to invest in the cost of installation of broadband infrastructure in less densely populated areas. We need to create a Workers Bill of Rights to safeguard all workers rights to fair working hours, safe working conditions, and humane treatment. This new wave of restrictive voting laws is the most aggressive assault on democracy in over 100 years. A lot of politicians will tell you the only solution is to raise taxes on the wealthy or big companies. We need to continue to fight to expand funding for our Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives, to support dairy entrepreneurs and help Wisconsin dairy businesses develop new markets, reduce costs, and support local farm economies.

   .contact_entity {font-size: 1.5em ;margin-top: 0.6em; margin-bottom: 0em;margin-right: 0.5em;} 		margin: 3px 0; But retaining our local students wont be enough. Click here to contact us for media inquiries, and please donate here to support our continued expansion. 	background-color: green; $(".expand-all").on('click', () => { I will continue to press for additional funding for infrastructure. Pao Jo-yee Cheng, a friend of Choi's who offered a $127,000 reward for Alex Kwong's capture before his arrest, . U.S. 		font-weight: bold; Labeled as E15, the blend can save consumers up to 10 cents per gallon on average. For areas where the offending companies cant be identified or have long gone out of business, we are going to need a Super Fund type program. Source. 		vertical-align: middle; div.survey-scrollbox {  height:400px;  overflow:scroll;  margin:20px;  padding:10px;  border:1px solid gray; } We need to give students opportunities to begin their education and apprenticeships while still in high school to open a pathway to a career instead of hoping that they will choose this route after they graduate. Income inequality has increased dramatically, and wages have stagnated in multiple sectors across our economy. Congress must work to pass the PRO Act to protect unions, empower workers, and hold big businesses accountable. I am extremely proud of my wife, Lauren, for her work at Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin to ensure that access to health care  from birth control and cancer screenings, to safe, legal abortion  is protected for individuals and families across Wisconsin. Abby Choi, . No place is this more acute than in our rural communities. 		padding-top: 3px; 	padding-left: 10px; Voters are looking for their elected officials to do the things that they said they were going to do. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Lasry's responses. 		clear: both; Misinformation online is a threat to our democracy. 	.leg-hnt-leadership { })  We also ensured 80 percent of the materials and services for building the arena were sourced from Wisconsin. 	 Lasry, a Democrat, is a . 	} 		color: #888; We need to double down on efforts to push Buy America and ensure that critical manufacturing is done right here in the United States. A good union job in a skilled trade is a pathway to a good middle-class life, but too many people and especially high school students are unaware of the opportunities that exist. As a country, we produce more now than we did during that time, but we do it in very different ways. 	clear: both; In light of soaring gas prices, I support President Joe Bidens order today to expand the use of biofuels, allowing vehicles to use up to 15 percent ethanol blends throughout the summer. Every Wisconsinite should be on an equal footing when it comes to opportunity, and universal broadband access would help bridge that gap. 		font-size: 12px; We need to retain young people by improving career awareness efforts by local businesses in their nearby high schools. 		margin: 5px auto; There is a fundamental flaw in a system that allows candidates on the ballot to attempt to influence the certification of the results. This is a significant issue in Wisconsin that affects many communities rendering their drinking water poisonous. Require the federal government only does business with companies that pay at least the living wage of 15 dollars an hour, provide a safe workplace, and respect workers rights to organize a union, The federal government is the largest purchaser of goods and services in the country. The only way we can truly follow through on those promises is to pass legislation that will deliver real results to voters. Republicans left in place the ability to deduct dues for bar associations, medical associations, trade associations, local chambers of commerce, real estate boards, business leagues, and civic or public service organizations. 		width: 100% !important; The worst part is that we still dont know the full extent of the problem as new pockets of contamination are regularly found. 		top: -5px; School districts | Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. 		line-height: 1.5em; $('.hideResponses').hide(); Since entering this race, I have traveled to every part of Wisconsin, talking to voters about the issues that matter most to them. What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? According to Reuters, 2 million fewer women aged 20 and older are currently working in America, compared to February of 2020. 	vertical-align: top; .widget-key { if (typeof $  !=  'undefined') { 		column-rule: 1px solid #aaa; 	} Thats why I support adding vision, hearing and dental coverage to Medicare, and why I support allowing Medicare to negotiate for lower prescription costs. 		display: block; It will help ensure that getting sick or having to care for a sick loved one wont lead to the choice between losing a paycheck or going to work sick and potentially infecting your co-workers and the community. We must eliminate the filibuster. 
float:right; Even as they are covered by Medicare, Wisconsin seniors are getting nickeled and dimed by rising out of pocket costs. 	padding-left: 10px; in political science and government from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 and an M.B.A. in corporate finance and management from New York University in 2014. Increasing the Participation Rate in Apprenticeships. 		vertical-align: top; $('.collapse').collapse('show'); We need the penalty for these activities to be high enough that companies wont consider engaging in these union-busting activities. We all share far more in common than we have differences. In both urban and rural areas, people across Wisconsin are struggling with many of the same issues. Alex was born in New York City to Marc and Cathy Lasry. That is where strong government enforcement must come in, and in the Senate, I will fight for more stringent environmental guardrails. margin-bottom:0px; 		width: 100%; 	@media screen and (max-width: 350px) { We need to ban captive audience meetings. I was proud to march shoulder to shoulder in the streets of Milwaukee after Jacob Blake was shot and proud to back up the Bucks players who protested on the court bringing needed national attention to this issue. Employers should also be more flexible with adjusting work hours and schedules, and we should guarantee every employee paid leave. 		max-width: 75px; 		.votebox { Its time to enact Automatic Voter Registration that makes our voter roles more accurate and more secure. I am running for the U.S. Senate so I can bring a new way of thinking to Congress and deliver real results for Wisconsinites. 	.results_table { I have a proven track record of delivering real results for the people of Wisconsin.  The drinking water infrastructure in rural communities is rapidly aging and creating a threat to public health. One of my first priorities will be to vote to abolish the Filibuster. We must be vigilant in ensuring that our country and the world remains vigilant in the fight for democracy. Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry withdrew from the Democratic Senate primary Wednesday afternoon and endorsed Lt. Gov. Ballot measures, Who represents me?    .contact_office { margin-top: 0.3em; margin-bottom: 0em;margin-right: 0.5em;} When we built the Bucks stadium in Milwaukee, we ensured that all the labor was union labor from Wisconsin. Nobody in this country should be working full time and still be unable to meet their basic needs. 	}  Both parties are now engaged in some of the most extreme partisan gerrymandering ever perpetrated on the citizens of the United States. Another less discussed and very important aspect of this legislation is the ending of the militarization of our police forces that occurred through President Bushs administration pushing out equipment returned directly from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to local law enforcement. 	width: 100%; Congress can help by raising the rural health reimbursement rates for Medicaid and Medicare and establishing more stringent minimum standards to make sure they can afford to provide the services that are needed in our communities. We need to think differently about our tax policy. More than 35 percent of rural Americans and Tribal communities lack access to broadband at acceptable speeds. Those who are willing to contribute significant sums of money to influence our elections should also be willing to allow people to know they are doing it. We need to enhance reporting requirements to show voters where campaign funding is coming from. 		left: 0px; 		margin: 0; This allows workers to vote their preference without fear of harassment or intimidation. According to Human Rights Watch, the Pro Act bans agreements that would prevent employees from pursuing class action lawsuits and collective claims against their employers for employment-related matters, such as wage theft, workers compensation, harassment, and discrimination. 	.inner_percentage.Libertarian { Lasry believes his background of working in the Obama White House and . 		color: #0645ad; Alex Lasry (Democratic Party)  ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Wisconsin. Many critical services have been taken out of rural communities as cost savings measures and placed in regional healthcare centers instead of in more convenient locations. While their tyrannical attempt to overthrow our government failed, the continued assault on the very fundamental tenets of American democracy has not ended, and in many ways, it is being accelerated. Happy birthday today to James Blake, tennis legend and MLP founding co-owner of the Milwaukee Mashers, who embodies the heart and soul of Major League Pickleball and our vision for the sport. Equity must be at the center of reshaping of this new economy so that America can truly be a land of equal opportunity, not a country where the zip code youre born into can define your health outcomes. 		position: relative; That means if the federal government pays to replace or rebuild water and sewer lines for example, the steel and iron must be made in places like the Neenah Foundry or Wisconsin Steel and Tube Corporation. . 		column-count: auto; Alex Lasry is senior vice president for the Milwaukee Bucks, where he directs the team's digital marketing efforts and leads the company's development initiatives. 	.leg-hnt-district-container { Senator Tammy Baldwin is a leading champion for Wisconsin manufacturers through her work in ensuring that projects that utilize federal tax dollars use materials that are made in America. 	width: 150px; A senior vice president with the team, Lasry said he will take a. 		display: block; 		box-sizing: border-box; The net result of this move removed the ability of tens of millions of workers to tax a home office deduction since the COVID pandemic sent workers to work from home, using their own space, paying for their own utilities to do their job through no fault of their own. 		text-align: center; })(); See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection. We need to examine and fund additional ways we can enhance Wisconsins export capacities both through the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi, and through enhanced rail connections. They are passing laws in states across the country to decide who gets to vote and who doesnt. We have seen fewer professors, smaller programs, and hollowed out UW-Extension staffs. 		background-color: grey; In doing so, we not only created jobs, but also made sure that people often left out of major construction work got a chance to expand skills, find jobs, and build wealth. We need new federal programs that will quantify this carbon capture and compensate farmers that do climate smart agricultural practices like these. 		font-weight: bold; In Wisconsin, we have seen firsthand how dangerous these laws can be, and Scott Walker and the Republican legislature passed this law as a part of their war on organized labor. We must recommit ourselves to maintaining an electoral system where every citizen, Democrat, Republican and Independent, can cast their ballot easily and securely. 	}  The filibuster is an archaic, Jim Crow-era rule that is stopping legislators from doing what they were elected to do. Quality childcare would also improve long term educational outcomes for children by providing a secure, nurturing community for childrens early lives that will provide a basis for future growth. Wisconsin has seen the success that Tammy Baldwin has had with bringing new research and development dollars to our state, most recently through Dairy Business Innovation Funding. For too long, our country has been in a race to the bottom where we have incentivized companies to ship jobs overseas and produce products for the lowest price possible, no matter what the consequences are. We must protect our democracy. 		background-color: green; [19][16]  Lasry also continues to own shares in Amazon, which he has refused to sell, despite criticizing the company. 		border: 1px solid #aaa; I am a strong advocate for passenger rail that connects Wisconsin with our Midwest neighbors and beyond as well as reinvesting in other forms of public transportation across the state. The lack of universal health care is also bad for our economy and stifles innovation. Click here to read the survey answers. Alex's father, Marc, immigrated to the US from Morocco when he was seven years old and Cathy grew up in Long Island. We have shown that progressive values are good for business and the economy. We need the federal and state government to ensure that all Wisconsinites have access to high speed, accessible and affordable internet. 		text-align: center; 		border-radius: 50%; Instead, we should meet the market reality of the service industry. 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