Danielle DuCloss

“I work and reside in the community that everybody else does, and I think property taxes have increased at a rate that is unsustainable,” Ratzlaff said. “I just want to take a look and see if there’s anything we can do about that.”

During his 2020 Assembly campaign, Ratzlaff said he supports municipal levy limits on property tax revenue, according to a WisconsinEye interview at the time. He still holds that position, he said Thursday.

In that same 2020 interview, Ratzlaff said he backed having an independent group draw legislative district maps, rather than lawmakers themselves, as well as term limits for legislators.

Before serving as Dane County executive, Agard was a local and state politician for over a decade. Starting in 2020, Agard was a state senator for District 16, which includes parts of the Madison region, after serving eight years in the Assembly. She previously served on the County Board for two terms.

In campaign materials from the fall, Agard advocated for expanding affordable housing initiatives and access to behavioral health care. She backed building a county mental health facility, using opioid settlement funds to reduce addiction and establishing a regional transportation planning agency, which would require action from state lawmakers

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Madison is raising taxes and spending (and buildings) amidst declining enrollment .