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Joel Brennan: “I served as the top appointed official in Governor Evers…”

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Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late

Published April 18, 2026 | Video Starts at 02:02

And I'm somebody who's been around and my career has been about the last 25 years trying to be a problem solver. I served and we'll talk more about this probably, but I served as the top appointed official in Governor Evers cabinet for three years. I live in southeastern Wisconsin. I've got connections all around the state and in the last week I think I've been in 10 counties. (02:02–02:07)

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“That's two and a half billion dollars that we have spent of state money to cover our own people.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 21:41-21:48
“Taking $800 billion out of [Medicaid] for the next decade to pay for, you know, tax cuts for the rich.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 22:05-22:13
“The President said he's introducing a budget that increases military spending by $1.4 trillion, by 40%.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 22:13-22:22
“We're going to need 4,000 nurses a year and 3,000 primary care docs in the last. In the next decade.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 23:59-24:06
“When I started in state government, there were 20 counties that didn't have a practicing OBGYN. I think it's like 26 now.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 27:48-27:55
“The average age of a first-time homebuyer in Wisconsin has gone from 33 to 40 in just five years.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 31:23-31:34
“I would use the executive office and the authority of the office to have real relationships with people.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 00:40-00:48
“I think I've been in 10 counties. I've had meaningful stops in about 10 counties in Wisconsin.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 02:13-02:18
“The main person who was responsible for the original funding of Discovery World is a guy named Mike Cudahay.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 05:29-05:36
“Mike Cudahay created a company called Marquette Electronics.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 05:37-05:43
“He [Mike Cudahay] bought parts of it [Marquette Electronics] from GE, ended up many years later selling it back to GE for a lot more.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 05:39-05:51
“We created, to that point, the largest surplus in state history.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 10:11-10:15
“We grew a rainy day fund by about 10x and got to the point about where it is now.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 10:14-10:20
“We used the resources that we got from the federal government.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 10:56-11:00
“We helped the governor put together two budgets, the first two budgets that he introduced when he was in his first term.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 12:54-13:01
“The legislature would take [the budget] very politely, go and throw it in the garbage can because they had such a big majority.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 13:20-13:27
“We are still in Wisconsin paying for, in my view, paying the consequence of the 2010 elections where Scott Walker was elected.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 15:03-15:13
“The right wing legislature, Act 10, you know, the gerrymandered maps. We are still just coming out of that.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 15:12-15:19
“We led Wisconsin towards better health care, better housing opportunities, more investment in public education.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 15:29-15:36
“Wisconsin can be a leader and show that there are different ways it doing this.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 16:07-16:12
“I think I can expand the electorate because of some of the work I've done in working with business and government and the nonprofit sector.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 18:24-18:32
“We need to make sure that we win those three or four seats in the state Senate that we have the opportunity to and a handful in the state…”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 18:43-18:55
“Governor Evers is leaving to us a legislature that isn't dominated by Republicans.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 21:08-21:18
“Robin Voss single handedly, in some ways stood against this.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 21:17-21:22
“We have been paying to cover people in Minnesota, in Iowa, in Alabama, you know, in every other state, up to 40 more states.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 21:52-22:00
“There's been legislation that's been proposed to cap [insulin costs] at 30 or $35 a month in Wisconsin.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 22:47-22:53
“We're one of the last states that's done, still does that, mainly on a county by county basis.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 24:32-24:37
“We have made in the state Supreme Court, we've been able to give some clarity to something.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 26:19-26:24
“In some places around Wisconsin, [maternal health outcomes] have been like in my home community of Milwaukee and you know, young women of…”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 29:20-29:31
“There's about, we're about 70,000 entry-level homes short of where we should be over the next four years.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 31:23-31:34
“Wida, the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority, they can issue their own mortgages.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 32:34-32:40
“There was a suit filed by parents, by administrators, by school districts to try to get that [school] funding formula declared…”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 34:33-34:42
“We just had 60 operational referenda.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 35:32-35:35
“Hustersford [is] looking to be the first school district to dissolve now because they had another failed referendum.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 35:35-35:43
“Wisconsin's formula is one of one in the country.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 35:52-35:57
“There was a blue ribbon bipartisan commission about what we should do around education funding. That was in 2018.”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 36:55-37:04
“There are 6 million people in the state [of Wisconsin].”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 44:33-44:35
“We haven't changed [our motto].”
Joel Brennan on Running for Wisconsin Governor: Healthcare, Housing, and Why He Jumped In Late | Uploaded April 18, 2026 | 45:53-45:55