John Kroll for Assembly District 85
John Kroll was born and raised in Necedah, Wisconsin, population 900, the son of a union mechanic and an office secretary. He earned his way through Western Technical College, where he studied energy efficiency. Today, he helps make Wisconsin homes more affordable and comfortable, and volunteers as a college advisor to expand job training in the trades.
John serves as a Marathon County Board Supervisor, where he’s voted to cut taxes and protect your drinking water. He and his wife are raising their two daughters in Wausau, where rising costs have hit close to home. John is running for Assembly to lower costs, create good-paying jobs, expand affordable health care, and protect Wisconsin’s natural beauty for the next generation.
As your state assembly representative, John Kroll will:
Regulate data centers: John Kroll will put a stop to unregulated hyperscale data center construction. He’ll put rules in place that require data centers pay their full share in energy and water costs so Wisconsinites' bills aren’t subsidizing billion and trillion dollar corporations. He won’t let local communities get hoodwinked by requiring transparency and by banning non-disclosure agreements that hide the impacts on local communities. He won’t let dirty, expensive gas power plants be built to supply data centers' immense electric needs. He will require that they are powered by 100 percent cheap, fast, clean energy sources like wind and solar. We can trust John Kroll to stand up to greedy big tech, electric utilities, and data center developers to protect local Wisconsin communities.
Keep energy costs low: Electric bills are skyrocketing for Wisconsinites. We can keep our electric bills low by building more clean energy like wind and solar, which are cleaner, cheaper, and faster to build. John Kroll will stand up to greedy corporate electric utilities who want to maximize profit and jack up your electric bills by building more dirty, expensive gas power plants.
Ensure clean drinking water for all: You should be able to trust the water that comes out of your tap. But thousands of Wisconsinites deal with lead pipes, nitrate contamination from factory farm pollution, or toxic cancer-causing forever chemicals like PFAS in their drinking water. John Kroll will hold corporate polluters accountable so they pay for their actions, and will ensure that no matter where you live, every Wisconsinite has access to clean, safe drinking water.
Re-authorize the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program: Enjoying the outdoors is a way of life in Wisconsin. For nearly 40 years, the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program supported buying and maintaining public lands for all to enjoy. It’s funded 113 projects in Marathon County alone, covering more than 8,400 acres. Despite its success and popularity, the Republican-controlled legislature let the program die this year. John Kroll will revive this program and make sure our public lands have the resources needed so Wisconsinites can continue to enjoy them for generations to come.
Vote David Crowley for Governor
Growing up, David Crowley didn’t have it easy. He experienced firsthand many of the same struggles Wisconsinites across the state face today. He knows what it’s like to work hard yet still have difficulty keeping up with the rising costs of housing, groceries, health care, and utility bills.
Those experiences shaped his approach to leadership. He started as a community organizer before being elected to the state Assembly to serve his community. At 33, he was elected county executive of Wisconsin’s largest county. Now in his second term as Milwaukee County executive, he continues to deliver real results for the people he represents. As a husband and father of three, he knows times are tough for so many. He’s running for governor so all Wisconsin families have what they need to not only survive, but to thrive.
As governor, David Crowley will:
Hold corporations accountable for polluting our land, air, and water, and ensure Wisconsin taxpayers aren’t subsidizing corporations and billionaires.
Regulate data centers to stand up to Big Tech, make them pay their full share of energy and water costs, and guarantee transparency regarding their impact our environment and communities.
Lower energy bills by standing up to utilities’ continuous rate hikes and transitioning to cleaner, cheaper energy sources.