{"id":597612,"date":"2026-02-18T02:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/597612\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T02:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:09:07","slug":"sen-baldwin-visits-rebecca-cooke-during-la-crosse-campaign-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/597612\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Baldwin visits Rebecca Cooke during La Crosse campaign stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LA CROSSE, Wis. (WEAU) &#8211; On the campaign trail, Senator Baldwin visited democratic candidate Rebecca Cooke during a campaign stop in La Crosse. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As a candidate for Wisconsin\u2019s 3rd congressional district, Cooke is looking to connect with voters in the Coulee Region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cooke is addressing western Wisconsin\u2019s rural health care crisis following the closures of HSHS hospitals in Eau Claire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She says increasing healthcare access and affordability is one of the reasons why she is running for congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI want to increase Medicare, Medicaid, and reimbursement rates so that our rural hospitals are able to keep their doors open, and our small-town communities can provide the care that they really need,\u201d said Cooke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cooke is looking to unseat Republican Congressman Derrick Van Orden. She faces democrats Emily Berge and Rodney Rave in the August primary race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WEAU. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LA CROSSE, Wis. (WEAU) &#8211; On the campaign trail, Senator Baldwin visited democratic candidate Rebecca Cooke during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":597613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[49470,1582,276,257736,2961,29864,224,5337,248790,71118],"class_list":["post-597612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-baldwin","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-campaign-trai","tag-la","tag-la-crosse","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-rebecca-cooke","tag-tammy-baldwin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116089203079108038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}