Thread by @AIWashburn

THREAD:
1) Wisconsin faces significant infrastructure challenges. Just driving on roads in need of repair costs each Wisconsin driver $637 per year. 157 Wisconsin dams have high-hazard potential.

2) To meet the state’s currently unmet drinking water needs would cost approximately $1B; meeting currently unmet wastewater disposal needs would cost upward of $6B.

3) Our schools have a current estimated gap between available funds and needed expenditures of $836M. 8.7% of Wisconsin’s 14,275 bridges are rated structurally deficient, up from 7.3% in 2014.

4) In fact, since Glenn Grothman first went to DC, the number of structurally deficient bridges in Wisconsin has risen dramatically, from 1,043 in 2014, to 1,241 in 2019.

5) The foregoing are facts from the American Society of Civil Engineers. infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/wis…

6) Rep. Grothman has sponsored a total of 16 bills in the House. None of them have sought to repair Wisconsin’s crumbling infrastructure.
grothman.house.gov/legislation/sp…

7) “Infrastructure Week” has become a running joke in the Trump Administration.
cnn.com/2019/05/23/pol…

8) Wisconsin’s farmers are already in financial trouble, as I’ve discussed in other threads. If they are also unable to get their goods to markets due to crumbling, aging, inadequate infrastructure, that could spell disaster.

9) Delaying needed infrastructure investments only increases the cost and risks of our aging system. That’s not an option. Deteriorating infrastructure harms Wisconsin’s ability to compete in an increasingly global marketplace.

10) Infrastructure issues emphatically are issues of importance to Wisconsin voters, and they should be issues of importance to Wisconsin’s representatives. If you send me to Congress, they will be.

11) My name is Amy Washburn. I'm a Democrat, running for Congress from Wisconsin's Sixth District, and I hope to have your support. Thank you.