WEST BEND – The race for Wisconsin’s next governor is underway 18 months before voters will go to the polls, with Washington County Executive Josh Schoemann launching the first campaign.
Schoemann, a Republican who filed his campaign paperwork days ago, launched his bid May 4 with a campaign video focused on his biography. He rallied supporters later in the day at a “summer kickoff cookout” in West Bend at event venue Elderberry Manor where his two sons, Drake and Cael, and wife, Jodi, introduced him with stories and songs.
The 43-year-old Washington County native pitched a theme of being “neighbors” with voters and argued in his campaign video that the governor’s office needs leaders who will “roll up their sleeves, bring people together and do the hard work of building a brighter future for Wisconsin.”