Wisconsin Sen. Brad Pfaff on banning hedge funds from housing, upcoming budget listening session, election react

Wisconsin state Sen. Brad Pfaff in the WIZM studio for La Crosse Talk with election reaction, money in politics, upcoming budget listening sessions and a new housing proposal, plus the best places for a Friday fish fry. Began the show with some election reaction in regards to the amount of money spent on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race the past two elections — both record-setting for the most money spent on a judiciary race.  Pfaff, a Democrat who represents District 32, also discussed some of the issues the state Legislature should be tackling, including some classic hits like childcare. Pfaff is holding a budget listening session at 3 p.m. Friday with Assembly Rep. Steve Doyle (D-Onalaska) at the Onalaska Library and at 4 p.m. this upcoming Monday with state Assembly Rep. Jill Billings (D-La Crosse) at the Main Street Library in La Crosse. We also talked about how there are no state budget listening sessions in western Wisconsin. The closest state listening session is in Wausau on April 29. Then we had some fun with Pfaff at the midway point, talking about how politicians should campaign, including the idea of going to Friday fish fries. Pfaff balked at the idea of offering to pick up the tab at those fish fries as essentially buying votes — though that might be legal now after last week’s election. Wrapped up talking about Pfaff’s housing bill, which would prohibit hedge funds to purchase single-family housing and some multi-family housing.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.