144. Legislating at the State Level with Representative Jen Schultz

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

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🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In this episode, Sharon talks to Minnesota State Legislator Jen Schultz. Jen is currently running for Congress, and is also an educator who has taught economics at the University of Minnesota Duluth for about twenty years. Rep Schultz talks about the ins and outs of working in state government: how budgets are set as well as how bills are written, introduced, prioritized, and voted on. She touches topics like model legislation, which is when a state reviews bills that have passed in other states and looks at ways to adapt it to their state, how state legislators work together across the aisle, and what they do when the session has wrapped for the season (there’s a lot of door knocking involved). Shifting gears, Sharon and Rep. Schultz talk about her current run for Congress, how she plans to bring her state expertise to the federal level, and the value women bring to political office.

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0:00.0	Hey friends, welcome as usual delighted to have you with me and today I have
0:06.3	Jen Schultz. Jen Schultz has been a Minnesota state legislator. For many years
0:14.5	she's currently running for Congress and the reason I wanted to chat with her is
0:18.0	because so often we hear, oh all politics are local, we should care more about
0:24.6	local government and I wanted to hear more about first-folders like to be in
0:29.2	state-level government and also why it matters. So let's dive in. I'm Sharon
0:35.5	Nickman and welcome to the Sharon Says So Podcast. I'm very excited to welcome
0:42.4	Jen Schultz. Thank you so much for coming. Great to be here Sharon. So Jen is
0:48.1	currently a state legislator and she is also currently running for Congress.
0:54.5	So I'd love to start by having you give everybody a little bit of your background.
1:00.4	So in my day job I'm an academic, I'm a professor at the University of Minnesota
1:06.4	Duluth and I'm in the Department of Economics. So I have a PhD in economics
1:12.0	and my specialty is healthcare economics. So for the last 20 or so years I've
1:17.4	been working on healthcare reform and health policy and I'm a mom. I have two
1:22.8	boys in the fifth and the seventh grade. My husband is also an academic. He's a
1:27.6	criminologist so he advises me a lot on policing and crime which is great. I'm
1:33.1	originally from Wisconsin but I've been in Minnesota for over 20 years. But I'm
1:38.7	from a background where I have a really strong mother who raised me and my
1:42.1	sister. She had us when she was praying herself through college and then got
1:47.0	her master's degree and I'll call a drug abuse so she could become a counselor
1:50.1	to help other families go through something that we experienced. Got very
1:54.0	involved in the feminist movement in the early 70s, ran for office for self as
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