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Tony Wied: “The previous congressman just abruptly decided in February…”

Featuring: Tony Wied, Republican | U.S. House Wisconsin, District 8

From De Pere to D.C. with Tony Wied

Published November 17, 2025 | Video Starts at 09:04

Once we open yourself up and say, look, what am I supposed to do? I don't really care, you know, about what it is. Just tell me. And the opportunity came the. The previous congressman just abruptly decided in February of 2024, so I had about a year, a little over a year of not working. And he just abruptly said, hey, I'm not gonna run for my next term. And in the House of Representatives, they're two year terms. Yep. (09:04–09:16)

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Asserts that the previous congressman decided not to run for re-election in February 2024.

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“I went to school here in the late. Well, mid to late 90s, graduated in 1998.”
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“I think it's ranked in the top five in the country.”
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“My dad was able to get a scholarship to play football in the early 70s.”
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“I grew up in Ashwaubenon, which is very close to campus, and went to public schools through eighth grade.”
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“My parents had a small business, and so I grew up with them, and they were in the snowmobile parts business.”
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“I joined in in 1998 when I graduated from St. Norbert, and it was. It was kind of a newer business.”
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“We had a small business and four kids under the age of five.”
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“Our business was seven days a week because we were open 24 hours a day at every one.”
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“We had the good opportunity, and it was an amazing opportunity and feel very blessed to sell it our business in 2022.”
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“I announced. You have to announce that you're running for Congress. And so I did that in April of 24.”
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“And then you go through a very difficult. It was a primary. You have to go through a primary election. And that election was in August.”
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“You serve and you were elected by the people of the 8th district of Wisconsin.”
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“I got sworn in literally a week after I got elected because I was fulfilling. Oh, because the previous congressman left early.”
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“There are 435 members in the House of Representatives.”
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“I'm a Republican, but meeting people that are Democrats in this day and age, you think, well, they're a Democrat, so you must not like them.”
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“I think northeast Wisconsin is the best place to live. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. I've never lived anywhere else.”
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“Some of those concerns [of older constituents] are going to lean into the economy, their checkbook, and just making sure that that's going…”
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“As it relates to, you know, Medicare, Social Security and, you know, those types of things, those more adult situations that you have to…”
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“That's my goal and that's what we're going to do is continue to make sure that we're, you know, making sure that those programs continue…”
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“If you are a young conservative in college, that has been difficult for some in different universities and colleges throughout the country…”
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“Part of our job is helping constituents, the people that the 750,000 approximate people that I work with.”
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“We do a lot of work for folks that maybe need help with immigration or IRS issues or Veterans affairs and those types of things.”
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“Helping people get the Veterans Administration services they deserve, maybe they're having an issue.”
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“Help someone with immigration, you know, help them get that final process to have a work permit to start working.”
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“You just go look up weed.house.gov okay? And it's I before E. So w, I, e d.house.gov and that there. It'll show you the number for our De…”
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“St Norbert has been very good to us this way, is internships.”
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“We've had others from St. Norbert that have been amazing.”
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“If anyone's interested in politics at all or wants to, you know, learn about the House of Representatives, learn about the government, we…”
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“It's been a very positive experience for those that have been here already.”
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