"Lower Costs, Cleaner Air. Wisconsin will be 100% powered by clean energy by 2050."

"As Governor, Kelda will make sure that every poisonous pipe is removed, because no child's future should be harmed from the water that comes out of their tap. Every single Wisconsinite deserves access to clean, quality drinking water."

"As Governor, Kelda will make sure that every poisonous pipe is removed, because no child's future should be harmed from the water that comes out of their tap. Every single Wisconsinite deserves access to clean, quality drinking water. As Governor, clean air and water will be a priority for Kelda, because she's not beholden to special interests."

"Wisconsin is already suffering from the effects of climate change. Increased flooding, more violent storms, invasive species, algae blooms, and less predictable weather patterns are already wreaking havoc on our communities, our businesses, our budgets, and our farmers. We need to develop climate resilience to ensure that we can withstand these changes."

"Wisconsin is already suffering from the effects of climate change. Increased flooding, more violent storms, invasive species, algae blooms, and less predictable weather patterns are already wreaking havoc on our communities... We need to develop climate resilience to ensure that we can withstand these changes."

"she stood up to the chemical lobby and authored the BPA Free Kids Act, to stop the neurotoxin bisphenol A from being put into baby bottles."

"Wisconsin also has no fossil fuels, so cultivating energy independence is increasingly important in a time of rising utility costs."

"Our state is well positioned to build on our successful emerging hubs in biotech, medical device manufacturing, health IT, battery development, game development, and nuclear fusion, among other key industries."

"Some of these policies are obvious: tax and regulate cannabis instead of criminalizing it, and instead, direct those law enforcement resources to solving serious crimes. Treat substance use disorder, mental illness, and behavioral health needs primarily within the healthcare realm, instead of using our jails and prisons to expensively warehouse people who are struggling but not a threat to others."

"tax and regulate cannabis instead of criminalizing it, and instead, direct those law enforcement resources to solving serious crimes. Treat substance use disorder, mental illness, and behavioral health needs primarily within the healthcare realm, instead of using our jails and prisons to expensively warehouse people who are struggling but not a threat to others."

"Make sure people who are incarcerated are equipped to become productive citizens through work, education, skills training, counseling, and treatment while serving their time. Improve reentry programs, because a roof over your head and a job that pays the bills is the best crime prevention program there is."

"Ensure that every county court system has a functioning Treatment Alternatives and Diversion program to reduce overcrowding and help nonviolent offenders get their lives back on track."

"Kelda will ensure Wisconsin adopts proven strategies that have helped other states (including many red states) prevent crime, save money, reduce recidivism, reduce racial disparities, and improve safety in communities and correctional facilities."

"As the lead author of Wisconsin's living wage bill, which brings the minimum wage up to $15/hour with a path to $20 by 2030 (small businesses get a longer runway), Kelda knows that no one working full time should be living in abject poverty."

"Kelda will restore the rights of workers to collectively bargain, whether in the public or private sector, and will repeal the dangerous Walker-era policies of Act 10 and so-called Right to Work, while restoring prevailing wage protection and cost-effective project labor agreements, and cracking down on worker misclassification and wage theft."

"As a small business owner herself for 13 years, Kelda understands that every community deserve thriving local businesses, which is why she is the lead author of the Main Street Bounceback program. This successful initiative provides small, flexible grants that allow small businesses to move into otherwise vacant retail spaces, to start or grow their businesses."

"In 2025, Wisconsin households faced an average increase of nearly $1,300 in costs as a result of the illegal tariffs — with our farmers especially suffering from both skyrocketing input costs, the loss of international markets to sell, and the labor market uncertainty due to violent raids on workers."

"She authored legislation to prevent AI price-fixing schemes that use computer algorithms to jack up rent costs to the most profitable rates for landlords... Kelda is the lead author of the Main Street Bounceback program. This successful initiative provides small, flexible grants that allow small businesses to move into otherwise vacant retail spaces, to start or grow their businesses."

"The 2025 federal budget is the largest wealth transfer in American history — FROM the middle class, working people, and poor Americans TO the billionaire barons. The exploding debt it creates undermines America's security and economic strength."

"Our state is well positioned to build on our successful emerging hubs in biotech, medical device manufacturing, health IT, battery development, game development, and nuclear fusion, among other key industries."

"Kelda has been an ally to all workers, fighting for fair wages, good benefits, and dignity for every person in the workplace."

"As a small business owner and entrepreneur, Kelda knows the challenges our small businesses face – and that solving them is the key to a vibrant, growing economy that works for everyone."

"empowering families struggling to make ends meet by raising wages and lowering costs for all Wisconsinites."

"The 2025 federal budget is the largest wealth transfer in American history — FROM the middle class, working people, and poor Americans TO the billionaire barons."

"they have diverted billions of our taxpayer dollars away from local public schools to private, unaccountable voucher schemes that perform no better — and often much worse — than public schools. Yet these privatizers get preferential treatment when it comes to state finances. That's not fair to our kids or our future, and it's why Kelda has a plan to bring the private voucher scheme to a responsible end."

"Kelda has a plan for how to permanently fix our broken school funding system to ensure that every kid gets what he needs to thrive, and to take the burden off of our too-high property taxes."

"they have diverted billions of our taxpayer dollars away from local public schools to private, unaccountable voucher schemes that perform no better — and often much worse — than public schools... That's not fair to our kids or our future, and it's why Kelda has a plan to bring the private voucher scheme to a responsible end."

"Teachers deserve fair pay and benefits, a voice in the workplace, and above all, respect for their profession. We have a teacher retention crisis in Wisconsin because of divisive, anti-teacher policies that deprive educators of the ability to collectively bargain."

"That means using evidence-based learning methods including the science of reading, keeping smartphones and other screens out of the classroom with a bell-to-bell cellphone ban, de-emphasizing EdTech that doesn't have rigorous evidentiary support, retaining high standards, engaging parents and community members as stakeholders."

"That starts by making our public schools the best in the country from early childhood to higher education, making health care affordable and accessible"

"Enact and enforce responsible gun safety measures that reduce firearm injury and death, including suicides."

"Wisconsin needs to repeal the archaic abortion bans and restrictions that put politicians in charge of your life, and put doctors in legal jeopardy."

"A bold plan to expand affordable healthcare coverage by allowing any Wisconsinite or business to buy into the same health insurance state employees have."

"expanding access to mental and behavioral healthcare, especially for veterans and children."

"she has fought relentlessly to protect abortion rights, expand infertility coverage and contraception access, and get politicians out of our private decisions."

"reducing the cost of medication, better managing chronic illnesses, and expanding access to mental and behavioral healthcare, especially for veterans and children."

"Our next Governor needs to protect people from the devastating loss of healthcare that is poised to end coverage for 276,175 Wisconsinites, and drastically raise insurance rates for everybody else."

"expanding BadgerCare to cover 80,000 more Wisconsinites and working with nurse practitioners to pass a bipartisan law to make health care more affordable and more accessible."

"As Governor, Kelda will create a true public option for health insurance, while bringing down healthcare costs, expanding coverage, and tackling prescription drug costs — just as she has done in the Legislature."

"That means being smarter with our healthcare dollars, investing in public health and prevention, reducing the cost of medication, better managing chronic illnesses, and expanding access to mental and behavioral healthcare, especially for veterans and children."

"Kelda has authored a suite of legislation to unmask ICE, expand civil liability for people who's rights are violated by ICE, prevent our state and local law enforcement from participating in ICE raids, and other accountability measures. She will hold ICE agents criminally and civilly liable for violating Wisconsin law."

"We can have immigration enforcement and secure borders without ICE's lawless, unacceptable violence. Kelda has authored a suite of legislation to unmask ICE, expand civil liability for people who's rights are violated by ICE, prevent our state and local law enforcement from participating in ICE raids."

"As Governor, Kelda will ensure that all of us have the freedom to make our own decisions and that doctors are never threatened with prison for caring for patients."

"She was fought to stop abusive 'conversion' therapy, passed legal protections for same-sex couples, and is a member of the Legislative LGBTQ+ caucus."

"With abortion rights under attack by extreme politicians, Kelda has been a leading voice for reproductive freedom for over two decades – as executive director of a statewide pro-choice group, she helped pass Wisconsin's first pro-choice law in three decades. As a legislator, she has fought relentlessly to protect abortion rights, expand infertility coverage and contraception access, and get politicians out of our private decisions."

"She has worked on issues of disability rights and justice, and has fought against discrimination against all forms and worked to reduce Wisconsin's racial and economic disparities."