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Joel Brennan: “I ran a department that had 1500 people in it. I made policy…”

Featuring: Joel Brennan, Democratic | Candidate, Governor of Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 15:14

If the lieutenant governor had a staff meeting with all of his or her staff that they would fit around this six, these six chairs in the conference room that I'm in. I ran a department that had 1500 people in it. I made policy for 35,000. We, you know, I was the, in lots of ways, I was the captain of the cabinet for the governor and had to help him run the executive branch. (15:14–15:20)

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Asserts that he managed a department of 1,500 and made policy for 35,000 people.

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