Wisconsin Assemblyman John Macco Helps Return $8.5 Million to Local Schools

John Macco has been serving as Wisconsin’s 88th Assemblyman since his election in 2014. He came from a business and finance background and now serves proudly on the committees of Audit, Jobs and Finance and the Ways and Means Committee. “I am invested in the financial system of Wisconsin,” Macco said. “I’m most proud of our prosperity dividend, and through good financial stewardship we have been able to make a difference in the economy which would have to be one of my biggest accomplishments so far.” Over the past year, the Wisconsin government has given money back to local school districts. “We just gave 8.5 million dollars to the Brown County Education System,” Macco said. “That money was money that we saved, not money that we had to borrow to give.”

Running for office brought about a whole new learning curve for Macco, and through various trainings with American Majority and other organizations he felt more confident to run. “Help with campaigning is one of the biggest ways that American Majority can help individuals that are interested in running for office,” Macco said. “We ran on a fiscally conservative platform, so we used data from public voting records to figure out who our targeted base would be, a technique learned through [American Majority] training.”

Macco points to simple tips that impacted his campaign. “American Majority helped us realize the importance of making campaigning personal. My wife and I personally went to 10,000 doors during the course of our campaign,” Macco said. People often wonder what it is that inspires others to become involved in politics. For Wisconsin’s 88th Assemblyman John Macco, it all started when he saw a need and began to volunteer to try and fill that need. “As you become a good citizen you become involved in different things because you see the need,” Macco said. “I started volunteering with the Boy Scouts and next thing you know, I am running for office.”

Having previously ran for Wisconsin State Senate in 2012 and lost, running as a State Assemblyman in 2014 gave Macco the opportunity to take what he learned from round one and apply it to win the State Assembly election by 2,867 votes out of a total 22,961 votes.

Holding an elected office is more than just a part-time job. “We need quality individuals to have a variety of different skill sets and to bring what is needed to the table,” Macco said. “If you are going to run, try to be a specialist of some sort in a particular field.”

Macco encourages conservatives to not give up the fight: “The liberal media will tell you that no difference is being made and that the conservatives are screwing it up. But that just isn’t true because far too often people focus on perfection and forget the time it takes to make progress.”