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ABOUT ME
My name is John Totz. I am running for the position of Lieutenant Governor for the Republican Party. I am married to my amazing wife Lori. We met in high school and have been together ever since. I have 2 amazing kids, Jake and our beautiful angel looking down on us from above, Brianna. For my education, I earned my MAE (Master of Arts in Education) from Marian University in Fond du Lac, and my MBA (Masters in Business Administration) from Lakeland University in Plymouth. I work as a substitute teacher in a number of school districts in the area, teach drivers education, as well as own a small business. I also currently serve on our local school board as vice president. I enjoy the outdoors, riding atvs, hunting, and just spending time with my family.
Hello
Welcome TO MY CAMPAIGN for lieutenant governor
Your voice matters, I want to represent all of you, no matter your political affiliation. Together we can accomplish anything. It's time Wisconsin.
What I will work for
I work for you the people of Wisconsin. I will represent you in Madison and all around the state to the best of my ability and put your needs and wants first, no exceptions. If it's important to you, then it's important to me. Affordability, insurance, taxes, and schools are important topics with voters I speak with now. Here are some of our thoughts/ideas. Also things voters talk to us about and want government to work on:
Ensure that our veterans and our seniors are never forgotten. Work to get them the care they need, medications at a lower cost, medical care at a lower cost, listen to their needs, fix what’s broken, help them with jobs and housing, listen to their input and act on it.
Work with low-income communities to help fund improvements in infrastructure, playgrounds and safe places for kids, improve schools, bring jobs into the communities through land grants and tax incentives, and help reduce crime.
Support Title IX and the 2nd Amendment.
Make home ownership more affordable and accessible to the people of Wisconsin by reducing fee, inspection, and permit costs to near 0, lowering/caping closing costs at 1% or less, no sales tax on 1st home and no property tax once the home is paid off. Also, getting towns across the state to buy land that is for sale near them, creating a lower cost entry point for someone to build a new home instead of the excessive prices a developer would charge.
Help farmers by simplifying compliance forms without removing environmental or safety protections, reduce regulations, focus on measurable results (like water quality or soil health) rather than rigid processes, lower compliance costs, simplify and streamline the permitting process, help create more markets in the state, US and the world.
Make loans and grants available to school districts to create or expand day cares in the school districts enabling parents to get back to work.
Get more funding to schools, almost half of school districts in Wisconsin have or will ask for help via a referendum, we are 26thin the nation for funding our public schools. If the state is going to create mandates for schools, like staffing, testing, and other programs, then the state needs to provide the funding for it.
Increase Special Ed aid to public schools from its current level up to 70%.
Raise standards and expectations in our schools. Increase proficiency, restore DPI report cards to their previous standards and realign the Forward Exam with NAEP allowing parents and communities to evaluate accountable standards. Hold schools and administration accountable.
Work with schools to be run more like a business when it comes to fiscal and financial items along with group and co-op buying for items. Modify/change the Revenue limit so it at least keeps up with inflation. Change and modernize the formula calculation for school aid(three tier equalization aid formula, it's from the 1996-97 school year) to better represent todays schools, inflation, and with a declining enrollment to better fund schools so they don't need referendums to survive.
Make sure parents’ voices are heard when it comes to the education of their children.
Work with the UW system and our tech schools to make education more affordable/decrease costs while getting the funding necessary to provide the education our students need, we are 44th in the country in funding our 4-year schools.
Work to make healthcare more affordable by holding insurance companies accountable for the overpriced insurance they are offering people in Wisconsin, working with our local states to create a coalition to work for and drive down the cost of insurance by opening up insurance offerings beyond your zip code and state, bring down RX prices, and increasing competition. Recruiting more people to go into the healthcare field to fill many unfilled positions. Also work to get everyone in the state, access to buy into the same state insurance that all state employees and politicians get.
Freeze utility bill increases for the next 4 years, fight to decrease them. The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin approved more increases for us the tax payers over the next 2 years, putting billions more in the pockets of the utility companies resulting in 30-50% increases depending on your utility.
Reduce the state budget to near pre pandemic levels for most departments/agencies (about a 10-20% reduction in spending per department/agency). The budget has increased dramatically ($45 billion increase) in the last 14 years, going from $66 billion in 2011 to $111 in the current budget for 25-27, with $30 billion of that increase coming in the last 4 budgets (8 years). This gets a lot of money back into the hands of the tax payers were it belongs and better funds our schools. It's our money, we need it. Government keeps telling us to live within our means, it's time we tell government to do the same!
Streamline state agencies and departments, increase efficiency, improve communication, cross-train employees to work in other positions while increasing their pay, empower employees to make decisions.
Eliminate income tax for married filing joint ($150,000 and under) and filing individual ($75,000 and under)
Freeze property taxes statewide through levy limits.
End the 400 year tax increase.
Return the government to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Give more control to local governments where they know what their people want and need far better than anyone in Madison.
Make Wisconsin a destination for people to live and businesses to thrive with lower taxes, a highly trained workforce, great schools, and a leadership that listens to the people. It's time that a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, has someone in Madison to lead and represent the people, listen to the people, and do what the people are asking for. It's time Wisconsin!!
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