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Wisconsin Assembly, District 50/Asamblea de Wisconsin, Distrito 50

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    Jon Aleckson
    (Rep)

Biographical Information

Please describe your priorities for your term in office and your specific qualifications to effectively address those issues.

What do you see as the most pressing housing-related issue in Wisconsin, and what policies, if any, would you support to address the issue?

What redistricting process, if any, do you believe the legislature should put in place before the next national census to ensure fair representation for voters?

What, if anything, will you do to ensure our schools have the resources to improve outcomes for its students, including those with disabilities?

What guardrails, if any, would you support to protect our environment, health, property values, and household budgets from large projects such as hyperscale data centers and Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)?

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Committee Aleckson for Assembly
Campaign Email alecksonforassembly@gmail.com
Campaign Phone 608-515-8816
Campaign Mailing Address 2920 Town Hall Rd
Mount Horeb, WI 53572
Website http://www.jonaleckson.com
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586738544086
Education PhD Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis
My Restore Wisconsin Plan: Smarter Schools— Direct more dollars to teachers and classrooms, reduce dollars to bureaucracy, and require administrators to teach one course yearly. Stronger Farms— Help families pass on farms, open new markets, and expand health insurance options. Invest in infrastructure, and tech-driven jobs in Green and Dane Co. to attract families and keep young people here. Vital in an AI-world. Housing & Property Taxes — Help young families buy homes and help seniors stay in theirs by freezing property tax increases for seniors and doubling the Homestead Tax Credit. I hold a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership, UW-Madison. I built educational-tech businesses and wrote books on collaboration --we need to work across the aisle.
The challenge is the severe shortage of homes for young families and working people. This drives up costs and pushes residents out of Green and Dane. High interest rates are also impacting the market. My Restore Wisconsin plan supports increasing housing supply by creating incentives for starter homes, allowing portable mortgages, and using targeted state tools to remove unnecessary barriers to building new single-family homes — all while maintaining strong local zoning control and preserving rural character. ALL regulations and other barriers need complete reexamination. We should look at ways to lower rates for first time home buyers. These practical steps will stabilize prices and strengthen neighborhoods.
There is no such thing as nonpartisan or bipartisan. People always bring their personal and political view with them. We all know that. If you want to bring more order to the process, here are my recommendations: The Legislative Services Bureau draws district(s) required under federal law protecting minority voters. The majority party draws the first district then the minority party draws the second. This is repeated until all 99 districts are drawn. A bipartisan council recommends a "smoothing" of the lines. The final map goes to the entire legislature.
Strong schools are the foundation of strong communities and our future. Wisconsin has increased per-pupil spending every year even as enrollment has declined, yet too many dollars never reach classrooms. We must send our current surplus back to schools and also directly to taxpayers, focusing on fully funding special education so districts can stop diverting general education money. I will fight for stable, adequate state funding that reduces reliance on local referendums, demands real accountability (including administrators teaching at least one course a year), and ensures every child — especially students with disabilities — gets the staffing, programs, and supports they need to succeed. My approach is teachers and students come first.
I support strong state-established guardrails and guidelines that empower cities and towns to effectively negotiate with developers. Every large-scale project must undergo thorough reviews of its impacts on groundwater, surface water, air quality, energy demands, traffic, noise, and local services. Large operators must pay more than their full share of infrastructure and environmental costs instead of shifting burdens onto taxpayers and neighbors. The entire approval process must be fully transparent and free of non-disclosure agreements. This approach preserves local control while protecting property values, public health and our quality of life. Bottom line, law must require that all costs are borne by entities that benefit.
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