Republican U.S. Rep. Tony Wied and his Democratic challenger, former Green Bay school board member and U.S. Army veteran Rick Crosson, met Thursday afternoon for a debate as the two compete for the Green Bay area’s 8th Congressional District seat. 

The 8th CD has been under Republican control since 2011 and this year the district is getting less attention and investment than the races for the 1st and 3rd Districts, which are seen as more competitive. Two years ago, the seat was open after Rep. Mike Gallagher’s departure from Congress and Democrats put significant resources into the campaign of Dr. Kristin Lyerly — who lost her race to Wied by 15 points. 

With Democrats gaining momentum in Republican-dominated districts across the country, surprises could be coming on Nov. 3, but Crosson’s challenge is still seen as a longshot. 

In the debate on Thursday Crosson sought to cast himself as a problem solver and Wied as someone who isn’t up for the job and who has “acquiesced” to the “erratic whims of the current occupant of the White House” while avoiding accountability to his constituents and using the position to personally enrich himself. 

Wied, the former owner of gas stations in the Green Bay area, worked to present himself as a good-tempered representative who has worked to improve the lives of people in northeast Wisconsin through his constituent services, while defending many of President Donald Trump’s actions that he has supported. 

Hosted by WFRV’s Tom Zalaski and Stacy Engebretson, the debate focused on the economy, the political environment, agricultural consolidation, data centers, healthcare, election integrity and the war in Iran. 

Economy

On the economy, Wied acknowledged that gas and diesel prices have risen because Trump started the war in Iran, but said that “decisive action” in Iran is what was needed. 

“Gas and diesel prices are too high, and we know that that comes from the president’s actions, and he took decisive action with a threat that we have in Iran,” Wied said. The threat posed by Iran is “something that every president has dealt with my entire lifetime, and through his intelligence briefings, he felt that there was an immediate threat with a nuclear weapon, and he took decisive action,” Weid said of Trump.  

“I think as soon as this conflict is over, and it has moved from kinetic warfare over to economic warfare, we’ll see those prices come down,” he added. “During the Biden administration, prices were extremely high as well. Gas and diesel prices were very high during the administration.”

When pressed about his votes to continue the war in Iran, Wied said he wouldn’t support a vote by Congress to end the war, calling it a “symbolic gesture.” 

Crosson responded that the people who create a mess don’t then get credit for cleaning it up. 

“You caused the instability. Congress acquiesced to the president, to the whims of the president, in kicking off this illegal and unwarranted war,” Crosson said. “This is one where you can’t blame sleepy Joe Biden for this situation and circumstance. We’ve got to end this war.” 

Polarization

The two men were also asked about the level of political polarization and tension in the country as voters are inundated with negative campaign advertising. 

Crosson said that if elected, he’d focus on “affordability, accountability and quantifiable results.” He argued that Wied, who hasn’t held any in-person town halls during his nearly two years in office, has ducked his responsibility to face his constituents. Wied argued that the telephone town halls he’s held help him reach more people across the district. 

“To me, a tele-town hall already communicates the message that there is a reluctance and there’s a fear of standing in front of people,” Crosson said. “Look, I’ve stood before heads of state, four-star military commanders, ambassadors, 3,000 irate, agitated truck drivers. I know what it means to be held accountable in person. There is nothing that substitutes an in-person exchange of information of concern. And yes, they can get spirited, but we should be leaning into that. That’s the nature of this role. If we don’t have the intestinal fortitude to go into that sort of thing, then we shouldn’t be in this role.” 

Wied said he’s met with more than 300 groups from the district, done news interviews and sends out a weekly email newsletter. He also said that holding town halls in person brings out a “left-wing mob.” 

“I’ve met with over 300 groups here just this year alone. The thing with an in-person town hall is you have this left-wing mob. You have people that work at the Brown County Democrat Party that threatened to kill me,” Wied said, referencing an incident last year in which an unpaid volunteer from the county Democratic party was investigated for making threatening phone calls to Wied’s D.C. office. “They come into these and they scream and they holler and they agitate, and you can’t even get a question. I have no problem meeting with people, and I do. I’ve met with, again, over 300 different groups in this area. I am in the community every single day. I’m the last one to leave to get to D.C. I’m the first one to come home, and we get in the car and we go to all 11 counties every single week. And I will answer any question from anyone.” 

Agriculture

Northeast Wisconsin is home to some of the state’s largest factory farms. As consolidation has pushed farmers to expand their operations while squeezing out smaller family farms, neither candidate offered many specifics on how Congress can help reverse that trend. 

Wied, who sits on the House Agriculture committee, pointed to his work to get schools serving whole milk again and the passage of a 2026 farm bill by the House of Representatives as actions that he’s taken to help area farmers. A full farm bill has not been enacted since the 2018 version of the law expired in 2023. 

“I’ll continue to meet with all of our farmers of all sizes and continue to do everything I can to help them succeed,” Wied said. “What I’m seeing, though, is a very big interest in the next generation to get into farming. There’s issues for sure, but I’m right there to help them, and I will continue to be an advocate and fight for them in Washington.” 

Crosson pointed to the tariffs that the Trump administration has imposed on imports from Canada and other major trade partners. He said he’d spoken with an area dairy farmer who can no longer afford to buy Canadian dairy cattle. 

“Congress has the responsibility for the imposition of tariffs, and if there is an imbalance of trade, then we look at it rationally,” Crosson said. “We don’t do it irrationally at the whims of the occupant of the White House. Here again is one of the things that Congress again has acquiesced in its mission and responsibility to be that watchdog, that check and balance on the excesses of the presidency, that’s one of the things that we have to do to get ourselves back in place.” 

Data centers

As local opposition to data centers has roiled campaigns across the country, the candidates both advocated for local control over the massive developments. 

Wied qualified his statement, adding  that the U.S. has to keep up in the race to develop artificial intelligence and data center deals can be beneficial to communities. 

“Well, I think this is an emerging technology that we need to be the leader in the world in, and there are other countries like China that are really growing in the artificial intelligence, or super intelligence as it’s now being called,” he said, referencing the term that Trump decreed should be used to describe the technology at a White House event late last month. “Some areas around the country are negotiating very good deals. You’re seeing data centers go in and teachers being rewarded with higher pay. There can be a deal, but it cannot be without the approval of the people here locally.” 

Wied went on to blame Gov. Tony Evers for forcing communities to construct “big solar farms.” 

Crosson said he doesn’t trust the big tech companies building the data centers to have the interests of communities at heart. 

“There has to be some level of state and federal laws, policies, procedures that protect our local communities,” he said. “We definitely have to have local control. We need to have the people involved in the decision-making process along the way.” 

Healthcare

Republicans across the country are running for reelection after voting to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which cut billions in federal healthcare spending. Wied argued that the Affordable Care Act is responsible for pushing up medical costs and that he and other Republicans fought to bring federal money to rural hospitals. 

Some money did get sent to fund Wisconsin’s rural hospitals, but it’s far less than the shortfall they will face because of  the broader cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. 

“Ultimately, we need to have a system where people can go directly to the doctor and not have to deal with these insurance companies,” Wied said. “As it relates to Medicaid, we had some of the most transformational reform, but here’s what it did: It basically says that you have to work if you are able-bodied and you do not have a dependent. The Affordable Care Act put people on the sidelines. If you’re a 29-year-old gamer sitting in mom’s basement, you’re going to have to work 20 hours a week, volunteer, or be going to school. That was significant savings, but what it’s going to do is put people onto payrolls and get them off the couch and actually to work.” 

Crosson noted that the OBBBA is set to kick millions of Americans off their health insurance and argued that healthcare should be a human right. 

“They keep saying that what was called Obamacare was not something that they wanted,” Crosson said. “They tried multiple times to nullify it, but there still hasn’t been anything that replaces this. I start with the premise that healthcare should be a fundamental human right, unequivocally. Once we do that, that’s the vision. We backward plan to where we are, and we move towards that objective. There’s enough dollars to do this. Everybody stops the conversation by saying how we’re going to afford it. There’s money there. We just have to have the national will to do that.” 

Election Integrity

Green Bay has been a hotbed of election conspiracy theories since the 2020 presidential election. When asked about trust in elections, Wied said that people have sincere concerns about the validity of the country’s elections — pointing to grant money Green Bay received from a Mark Zuckerberg-aligned non-profit to help fund the added cost of administering an election during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

He said that Congress should have passed the Save America Act, which would have instituted a strict national voter ID requirement, because states such as Illinois and Minnesota don’t require a photo ID to vote and therefore they  allow undocumented immigrants to cast ballots. 

It is illegal for non-citizens to vote in federal elections, and there’s no evidence that it happens in significant numbers. 

“One of the biggest issues that I hear as I continue to travel around all of our great 11 counties here in northeastern Wisconsin is that people are concerned with election integrity,” Wied said. “That’s why I proposed and we passed in the House the Save America Act. What that says is, look, you have to be a citizen and show ID in order to vote in federal elections. We have elections all across our country with states like Minnesota and Illinois that don’t do that. They don’t require you to show an ID or be a citizen, and that’s not OK. We need to ensure the integrity in our elections.”

Crosson said the federal government should have no say in how Wisconsin’s elections are run and that fearmongering about these issues only discourages people from voting. 

“This is a state requirement, a state responsibility, and we don’t need federal intervention that has the effect of disenfranchising voters,” Crosson said. “This is about making people afraid to come to vote because they know that we outnumber the crazy.” 

‘Communism’ and stock trading

Toward the end of the debate, the two candidates were allowed to ask each other one question. 

Crosson asked Wied about the large number of trades he’s made while in office. Wied’s net worth has increased by more than $3 million since he was elected and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel previously reported that Wied has bought and sold stock in a number of companies that have business before the committees on which he serves. Wied has said all of these trades were made by his independent financial adviser. 

Wied said that the stock purchases happened because he and his wife had some savings to invest after selling their business. Then he pivoted to attacking prominent Democrats. 

“We sold our business in 2022, and we had some savings. We hired a financial advisor. My wife nor I have ever asked them to buy or sell anything, nor would we,” he said. “But let’s be real. I think the real issue is people don’t trust Congress. You have people like Ilhan Omar that all of a sudden made $30 million out of nowhere. You have career politicians like Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden that are worth millions, and they’ve never had a real job. That’s why we need to have term limits. We cannot allow people to enrich themselves in Congress.”

Wied highlighted Crosson’s campaign appearances with “known Communist” Francesca Hong, the state representative and former Democratic candidate for governor, and asked if Crosson wants to abolish the police. 

Crosson said he “comes at everything from a law and order perspective” and noted his military career included postings in Europe during the Cold War and working with the Mexican government to prevent drug trafficking over the country’s southern border. 

“Whether or not Francesca Hong is a ‘communist’ is something that you and her would have to talk about,” Crosson said. “I fought communism in my 20 years of service. I fought against totalitarianism.” 

“Of course, I’m for law and order,” he continued. “This is more exploitative conversation to inflame the folks who are inclined to not dig deeper into the facts. So of course I’m for law and order. Who isn’t? But what I don’t want to see happen are people taking advantage of their power and authority and imposing that on our population. That’s not law and order. That’s terrorism, and I’m going to fight that hard.”

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Three Democratic candidates tried to convince voters that they were the best shot to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Tony Wied in the 8th Congressional District.

To a crowd of about 50 on Aug. 3 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay’s Christie Theatre, the candidates tried to differentiate themselves to voters heading into the Aug. 11 primary election. The winner will go against Wied in the Nov. 3 general election, vying to represent nearly 737,000 people across 11 counties in northeastern Wisconsin.

On substance, their positions often aligned, on issues such as the environment, culture and the rights of Indigenous tribes, but they deviated some on public education and health care.

They were most divergent on style and their read of the Democratic Party.

Rick Crosson, a former Green Bay School Board member, doubled down on his tactic of growing the Democratic Party’s appeal as an insider, saying there was “absolutely nothing wrong with being a Democrat” or being an insider to “fix any and all issues that we may be dealing with.” He said his political icon was the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights leader from Georgia.

Katrina deVille, a musician who has campaigned on being a political outsider and democratic socialist, said, “We don’t even have a left party in this country anymore” and “we have to vote for something different.” Her political icons are New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Mark Scheffler, a former wealth adviser who’s billed himself as a progressive independent, said Democrats “need to expand the base to include open-minded independents and even open-minded conservatives that are abandoning the Trump administration.” He considered former Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as his most esteemed political figure.

Here’s what the candidates said during the forum.

On winning a historically red district

Winning was top of mind for Scheffler and Crosson, so much so that Scheffler said it was the best word to describe his campaign.

The district has not elected a Democratic representative since 2008, when Rep. Steve Kagen won the seat before losing in 2010 to Republican Reid Ribble.

Scheffler said his strategy to winning was targeting those who have felt neglected by the Democratic Party. He pointed to voters in rural communities, whom he said the Democratic Party hasn’t done enough to connect with, and people in business, whom he said the Democratic Party hasn’t been welcoming enough of.

Crosson argued he had built a broad coalition that could win across the political spectrum and that he had “attached myself with every group you can name.” He said he’d gotten a neighbor of Wied’s to put up a Crosson yard sign and that a Republican former state treasurer had told Crosson that he’d nudged his Democratic wife to vote for him.

And asked what made her the best candidate, deVille positioned herself as a foil to Republicans and “the biggest eff-you that people can send to the federal government” being a transgender woman.

“Any time I’ve had to deal with a Republican politician, they crash out,” deVille said. “The minute I walk in the room, they can’t even look at me, and they just crash out, and it’s fantastic.”

She touted hosting town halls at gun ranges and her position as a Second Amendment advocate.

On breaking with the Democratic Party

Asked if there was a specific policy on which he would break from the Democratic Party when voting in Congress, Crosson said, “If I had anything to offer our party at this point in time, it is: We need to have a conversation about who we are, and do we have bias that’s running through our party that needs to be addressed and have the honest dialogue about what inclusiveness means?”

For deVille, it was gun rights. She argued that more gun laws would only deter law-abiding citizens and that more enforcement and focus on mental health care rather than legislation were needed.

For Scheffler, it was gerrymandering. He criticized both Republican and Democratic efforts to draw favorable district boundaries and said that “partisanship should never come at the price of an individual’s right to vote.”

On what they would do in Congress

The candidates aligned on much of their stances on abortion and transgender rights. They all said they would:

• Vote to codify the right to an abortion in federal law.
• Support equal opportunity and access for transgender people.
• Not take money from political action committees.
• Support a tax on billionaires.
• Support increasing funding to Social Security by raising the cap on payroll taxes.
• Support free four-year public college tuition.
• Support a universal, federally funded child care program.
• Support banning drilling leases on public land.
• Support increasing the size of the Supreme Court.
• Decriminalizing marijuana.
• Banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks.

Crosson said he would back the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which would create a more stringent process for states and institutions to make changes that could affect voting rights.

He argued the size of the military needed to be reevaluated as it currently “is not based on a strategy or a vision,” he said.

Crosson said that health care was a universal human right and that there was enough money to expand Medicaid, but did not go so far as deVille or Scheffler to say he supported a universal health care system.

Only deVille said she would oppose introducing term limits on members of Congress.  

DeVille also said that she supported abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and that she would introduce articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on her first day in Congress. She argued that the United States needed to be more open to free trade with the rest of the world.

She said she would support the CEO Act, a bill that would tax company heads for making at least 50 times what their company’s average worker makes.

She also said she would introduce legislation to “ban voucher schools.”

Scheffler said he would eliminate the Internal Revenue Service as part of his proposed policy to revamp the tax code with a singular sales tax. He argued that Republicans would be on board, that it was a progressive tax and that libertarians would be supportive with the need to file annual taxes being gone.

He also promoted his idea for the Great Lakes region to become the world’s largest market for biomass. Under the plan, farmers would be paid $400 an acre to grow “fibrous pulp” that would be sent to the region’s paper manufacturers, Scheffler said. He framed it as a sustainable method to reduce the area’s dependency on foreign-grown sources for the local paper industry and as a policy that would protect against tariffs.

Jesse Lin is a reporter covering the community of Green Bay and its surroundings, as well as politics in northeastern Wisconsin. He also writes a weekly column answering reader questions about Green Bay. Contact and send him questions at 920-834-4250 or jlin@usatodayco.com.

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As early voting starts next week in the Aug. 11 primary to determine who will be on the November ballot, Democrats hope to flip two U.S. House seats in Wisconsin.

Republicans took control of the House in 2022 and currently hold six of Wisconsin’s eight seats. The primaries feature several political newcomers and could offer insight into which wings of each party are exerting the most influence.

Here are the four House primaries we are watching in August:

Congressional District 1

Democrats are targeting this district to unseat four-term U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil, who defeated Democratic challenger Peter Barca in 2024 by 10 percentage points. Barca wasn’t new to Wisconsin politics, having served in Congress and the state Assembly as minority leader. He also served as secretary of the state Department of Revenue before his 2024 run.

“On paper, it’s a competitive district,” said Barry Burden, University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center. “The trouble is Steil is a really formidable incumbent.”

Because Steil, who succeeded former House Speaker Paul Ryan in 2019, has a fundraising advantage and is not a controversial figure, Burden said this district is much harder to flip regardless of national Democratic efforts. Since the start of his latest term, Steil has raised $3 million, received more than $2 million from other committees and has $6.1 million cash on hand.

ER nurse Mitchell Berman has established a clear edge in the primary. He has received multiple lawmaker endorsements, including Reps. Ann Roe, D-Janesville; Ben DeSmidt, D-Kenosha; and Tip McGuire, D-Kenosha. He recently launched a six-figure ad buy, highlighting his experience as a nurse working with veterans and his campaign on protecting health care and lowering costs. He has raised over $650,000 and has about $220,000 cash on hand.

Milwaukee Ald. Peter Burgelis suspended his campaign after the July 15 campaign finance filing deadline and offered to support Berman. Burgelis’ report showed he had raised just over $54,000 in the most recent quarter. He had been campaigning on lowering costs, making communities safer and defending voting rights.

Lorenzo Santos, a Navy veteran and the former Young Democrats of Wisconsin chair, previously ran for the seat in 2024, but suspended his campaign before the primary. His top priorities include raising the federal minimum wage to $26 by 2030, universal Medicare and supporting veteran mental health services. He has about $10,000. 

Miguel Aranda is the Whitewater Unified School District Board vice president and the associate director of PreCollege Programs at UW-Whitewater. His campaign emphasizes that he is the only Spanish speaker in the race, and his priorities include criminal justice and immigration reform, supporting unions and protecting Medicare. He has more than $13,000 cash on hand.

What we’re watching: In what’s supposed to be a good year for Democrats and a bad year for incumbents, will a relatively unknown Democratic nominee give Steil any trouble?

Congressional District 3

The top Democratic target in Wisconsin is U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden. The 2024 Democratic nominee Rebecca Cooke and former Eau Claire City Council President Emily Berge are running in the Democratic primary.

Burden said this is the only congressional district in the state seriously in play for Democrats. 

Van Orden has had a controversial political career after succeeding longtime Democratic moderate Ron Kind. He is known for his incendiary tweets and past clashes such as scolding teenage Senate pages in 2023 and confronting a La Crosse library worker over an LGBTQ+ book display in 2021. He also closely aligns with President Donald Trump, who won Wisconsin in 2024 but has since seen his approval ratings crater.

“He’s in real jeopardy,” Burden said. “This could be a district that Republicans lose.”

Cooke lost to Van Orden in 2024 by less than 3 percentage points. Burden said her high-profile endorsements, including U.S. Sens. Tammy Baldwin and Bernie Sanders and state Sen. Brad Pfaff, D-Onalaska, give her a leg up in the Aug. 11 primary. Cooke leads in fundraising at nearly $7.5 million in the latest quarter with $2.5 million cash on hand while Van Orden raised $5.2 million with $4.7 million in the bank.

Cooke has faced criticism for portraying herself as a political outsider while working as a Democratic fundraiser and as a political consultant for controversy-courting Minocqua Brewing Company owner Kirk Bangstad. She has more recently worked with the center-left think tank Third Way.

Her biggest campaign priorities include expanding Medicare, supporting farmers and lowering costs for working families. 

Berge is running for the seat for the first time. She has received endorsements from legislators including state Sen. Jeff Smith, D-Brunswick, and state Rep. Tara Johnson, D-town of Shelby. She touts her prior elected experience and supports universal health care and affordable housing. Berge has raised $686,000.

What we’re watching: What will Democratic turnout in the August primary tell us about Van Orden’s chances compared with 2024?

Congressional District 7

This far northern Wisconsin district has two loaded primaries as U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany wraps up three terms in Congress to run for governor. Five Republicans are vying to keep the seat red while three Democrats make their bids in what will likely remain a safe Republican district.

Wausau financial adviser Kevin Hermening, Chippewa County factory worker Jessi Ebben, Crescent business owner Niina Baum, Superior contractor Don Raihala, and Michael Alfonso, son-in-law of former congressman and current Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, are competing in the Republican primary. 

Alfonso leads the fundraising race at $1.25 million, with Ebben trailing behind with just over $460,000.

Hermening, a Marine veteran, has raised $103,000 for his campaign but also gave himself a $1 million loan. He is endorsed by lawmakers including state Sen. Romaine Quinn, R-Birchwood, and state Rep. Pat Snyder, R-Schofield. His top campaign issues include protecting Social Security and Medicare and supporting veterans.

Raihala said some of the biggest issues constituents have in the district are illegal immigration and the Jeffrey Epstein files, and he said he would continue to support deportations of immigrants lacking permanent legal status and the full release of the files.

Baum holds a more moderate view of immigration, saying that while she supports border security, she says immigrants are essential in Wisconsin and wants to create a “functional legal pathway” for workers. She also supports a data center moratorium and wants to uplift Wisconsin farmers. Baum has raised about $6,000.

Similar to Raihala, Ebben holds border security high on her priority list, as well as pro-life values, Second Amendment rights and strengthening rural communities. She also emphasizes her intense support for Trump, though she did not receive his endorsement for her campaign.

Trump’s endorsement went early in the race to Alfonso, 26, who also received endorsements from House Speaker Mike Johnson and four of the six Wisconsin Republican congressional incumbents. His top priorities include states’ rights, pro-life values and supporting school choice.

Burden said the Trump endorsement might not be enough to pull Alfonso through.

“Alfonso has these other liabilities,” Burden said. “His youth and inexperience are serious. He’s just old enough to serve in Congress and really has not had any experience being employed or working in party politics in any meaningful way.” 

The wealthy Republican Uihlein family split their donations in this district. Richard Uihlein donated to Alfonso’s campaign and gave $1 million to a PAC supporting him. But his wife, Elizabeth Uihlein, donated to Ebben’s campaign and gave $1 million to a PAC supporting her. Burden said this highlights the divide among party insiders whether to follow Trump’s lead or not.

What we’re watching: Is Trump’s endorsement enough to override concerns about inexperience and nepotism in northern Wisconsin?

Congressional District 8

Three Democratic newcomers are competing to unseat freshman U.S. Rep. Tony Wied, who won by about 15 percentage points against obstetrician-gynecologist Kristin Lyerly in 2024, in this solid Republican Green Bay area district. 

Mark Scheffler, a retired business owner, heavily campaigns on the idea of a “sustainable society,” which includes affordable health care, privacy rights and economic prosperity. He also prioritizes conservation and protecting the environment. Scheffler has raised just over $107,000, compared to Wied’s $1 million haul.

Rick Crosson is an Army veteran from Green Bay. His campaign says he wants to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs for more timely and quality treatment, fighting agriculture corporations to support small farmers and supporting rural reproductive health care. He has raised just over $63,000.

Democratic Socialist Katrina deVille, a transgender woman, advocates for a $22 federal minimum wage, universal health care and free child care. She also says she wants to file articles of impeachment against Trump on her first day if elected. She has raised just under $3,000.

What we’re watching: Can Democrats mount a credible challenge in northeast Wisconsin in what could be a blue wave year?

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