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Kevin Hermening
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Stated at his campaign launch that 'we are all, to one degree or another, or even fully supporting the sanctity of life' — affirming a pro-life orientation consistent with the rubric's personhood standard.
- wausaupilotandreview.comUnclassified
- BallotpediaCenter
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Declared that 'making sure that boys aren't going into our girls' bathrooms in schools, playing in our girls' sports ... is not the community values of Central and Northern Wisconsin' — directly rejecting transgender ideology in schools, consistent with the rubric.
- wausaupilotandreview.comUnclassified
- BallotpediaCenter
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In his campaign launch Hermening explicitly stated that 'parents — not the government — should guide their children's upbringing and education' and pledged to 'protect children from radical ideology in schools.' This direct commitment to parental authority over education and protection from government-imposed curriculum aligns with the rubric's parental-rights and anti-CPS-overreach standard.
- kevinhermening.comUnclassified
- wausaupilotandreview.comUnclassified
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Cited Washington's 'fiscal mismanagement' and the 'rising national debt' as core motivations for his congressional run and lists fiscal responsibility and cutting the debt as top priorities — aligning with the rubric's anti-deficit/balanced-budget standard.
- wausaupilotandreview.comUnclassified
- BallotpediaCenter
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Hermening's 2026 campaign explicitly prioritizes election integrity, with his campaign advertising pledging to 'safeguard our elections' as one of his core commitments. Major-donor campaign reporting by Ballotpedia News (June 3, 2026) quotes Hermening's ad stating he would 'keep our border secure, cut taxes for families, safeguard our elections, and protect our farmers, loggers, and ginseng growers who power America.' As a former chairman of the Marathon County Republican Party (20 years) and self-described America First Republican, Hermening's election-security commitment is consistent with voter-ID, paper-ballot, and anti-mass-mail-in measures the rubric identifies as the election_integrity q0 ideal.
- BallotpediaCenter
- BallotpediaCenter
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In his formal campaign launch statement, Hermening declared he is 'committed to keeping our border secure and our communities safe, defending the rule of law' as a core platform plank. His campaign materials specifically call for securing the southern border, stopping fentanyl trafficking, and supporting law enforcement to enforce immigration statutes — consistent with the rubric's wall-and-military-at-the-border standard.
- kevinhermening.comUnclassified
- wausaupilotandreview.comUnclassified
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Hermening's campaign explicitly promises to 'protect our farmers, loggers, and ginseng growers who power America' — a direct commitment to small-scale and specialty agriculture in northern Wisconsin, where ginseng cultivation is a signature small-farm industry concentrated in Marathon County. His pledge prioritizes independent family farmers and local natural-resource workers over corporate agricultural consolidation, consistent with the rubric's industry_capture q3 ideal of supporting raw-milk/small-farm producers and protecting them from government and agribusiness overreach. As a Wausau businessman with deep ties to Central Wisconsin's agricultural communities, Hermening frames this protection of local producers as a core America First economic commitment.
- BallotpediaCenter
- kevinhermening.comUnclassified
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