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District 61 race: Incumbent Matt Pierce and challenger Liliana Young clash over housing, health care, education and data centers
Summary
At a DSA-hosted forum in Bloomington, State Rep. Matt Pierce and challenger Liliana Young traded sharply different approaches to housing, Medicaid, education funding and data-center regulation, with Young pressing for structural change and Pierce stressing legislative experience and targeted amendments.
Representative Matt Pierce and challenger Liliana Young faced voters at a DSA-hosted candidate forum in Bloomington where they outlined sharply different plans for housing, health care, education and local control.
Pierce, the District 61 incumbent, framed his record around protecting voting rights, opposing recent redistricting efforts and using legislative tools to blunt measures he called harmful. He told the audience he had offered an amendment to "unmask ICE" to require law enforcement to identify themselves, and described pushing…
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