Brady’s Priorities
For Our Kids and Community
The new District 14 provides the greater West Allis community new representation in the State Assembly. We need innovative, experienced leadership that will rise to the occasion for working families, future generations, and Wisconsin at large to find solutions for the challenges we’re facing today and put into place infrastructure to prevent avoidable consequences in the future.
Save Our Schools
As a graduate of a Wisconsin public school, my first priority as state representative is to save our schools. A new report showed that Wisconsin’s teacher shortage is getting worse. Our students deserve better. Period.
Increase funding for public schools, eliminating the need for referendums.
Prioritize retaining and recruiting high-quality teachers and staff for students.
Support tuition-free higher education as an investment in our future.
Keep Our Communities Safe
Great schools and communities are only truly great if they are safe. I will work tirelessly to keep our communities safe with a multi-faceted approach. Our kids’ and community’s safety is of the utmost importance to me.
Promote responsible gun ownership, secure storage, and community education to decrease gun deaths.
Increase domestic violence prevention programs, resources, and support systems.
Secure a better shared-revenue deal so our local governments can continue to provide high-quality services.
Expand Access to Health Care
Everybody should be able to live and age safely and with dignity. We must protect and expand access to health care, including abortion care.
Pass Medicaid expansion.
Restore access to abortion care and protect access to all reproductive care.
Create expanded health care options for small business owners.
“Public Schools. Public Safety. Public Health. Those are my top priorities as your next State Representative from District 14. For our kids and community.” - Brady Coulthard
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Champion for Working People
Our economy should work for working people while simultaneously investing in our communities. We have opportunities to support "Buy Wisconsin" measures that say when Wisconsin wants something made, we make it here—not overseas. These initiatives go hand-in-hand with finding solutions for our childcare crisis, repealing so-called "right to work" laws, supporting workers’ rights to organize, restoring Wisconsin’s prevailing wage law, repealing the prohibition on PLAs on taxpayer-funded projects, raising the minimum wage, and strengthening workers rights overall. I will stand side-by-side with organized labor to ensure that working families can continue to live, work, and thrive in Wisconsin.
Environment and Sustainability
As a member of Gen-Z and the uncle of five nieces, I feel the urgency around the climate crisis. We need to protect our clean water and air. It is important to meet the moment we are in with the urgency it requires. We must aggressively be leaders in climate justice and have a plan to decarbonize no later than 2030. I’m dedicated to clean energy and green infrastructure, meaning we need to extend, repair, and incentivize public transit systems. Additionally, being a leader for environmental justice means partnering with local climate justice activists, as I have done in my work with Wisconsin for Environmental Justice. Finally, The climate crisis, while a crisis, is an opportunity to create a labor-centered workforce to build the green infrastructure we need. I am a strong advocate for working with unions to build the future that will address the climate crisis.
Invest in Local Communities
Local governments are uniquely positioned to provide you with the services you rely on the most. At the same time, while Wisconsin has a $3.25 billion surplus, local governments are struggling to make the bottom line on their budgets to continue to provide the services we expect from them. Whether it be parks, mental health resources, public schools, or our first responders, Wisconsin must pass a better shared revenue deal so our municipalities and local governments can continue to provide high-quality services.
Supporting Small Businesses
As a small business owner, and as the son of two small business owners, I am intimately familiar with the challenges small business owners face, even while finding success year to year. Wisconsin must ensure small businesses have the tools they need to succeed.
