Ty Bodden

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Ty Bodden
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Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
from the 59th district
Assumed office
January 3, 2023
OccupationLegislative Researcher
Website Campaign website

Ty Bodden (born December 15, 1993) is an American Republican politician. He is a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Wisconsin's 59th Assembly district since January 2023. He is the former chairman of the Republican Party of Calumet County, Wisconsin, and previously served on the Stockbridge, Wisconsin, village board.

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Biography

He graduated from Stockbridge High School, in Stockbridge, Wisconsin, in 2012 and went on to University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, where he earned his bachelor's degree in political science and public administration in 2016. He then completed his master's in public administration from Arkansas State University. [1]

During college, he worked as a ranch hand at Cristo Rey Ranch, which provides animal therapy for children and the elderly with intellectual disabilities. He subsequently became a manager of the ranch, and is now chair of the ranch's nonprofit board. From 2019 through 2022, he worked as administrative staff at two Wisconsin Department of Corrections facilities, Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution and Taycheedah Correctional Institution. [2]

Bodden now works as a Legislative Researcher for The New American , a publication of the John Birch Society, since Spring 2022. [3] He has resided in St. Cloud, Wisconsin, Theresa, Wisconsin, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and Kewaskum, Wisconsin.

Political career

Bodden has been involved with the Republican Party of Wisconsin since college, and worked as campaign manager for Jesse Kremer during his first run for Wisconsin State Assembly in 2014. From that campaign, he went directly onto Duey Stroebel's campaign in his special election for Wisconsin Senate in Spring 2015. That summer, he received an internship in the Wisconsin Legislature, and followed that up with internships in the office of the mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin —which was then Republican Jim Schmitt —through the spring of 2016. He then worked for the Assembly campaign of Ron Tusler. In the fall of 2017, he was appointed to the village board of Stockbridge, Wisconsin, and was subsequently elected to two full terms, leaving office in May 2022. [2]

In January 2018, state representative Jesse Kremer announced he would not run for re-election to a third term in the Assembly. [4] Bodden entered the race for the Republican nomination to succeed Kremer in the 59th Assembly district, and he received Kremer's endorsement, as his former campaign manager. [5] Despite Kremer's endorsement, however, Bodden fell 295 votes short of Timothy Ramthun in the four-candidate Republican primary, and Ramthun went on to win the general election in the heavily Republican district. [6]

Ramthun ultimately served two terms before choosing to run in the Republican primary for Governor of Wisconsin in 2022. He was therefore unable to run for another term in the Assembly, and Bodden announced another attempt for the 59th Assembly district seat in April 2022. [7] [8] He faced Kewaskum tavern owner Vinny Egle in the Republican primary and prevailed decisively with 64% of the vote. [3] [9] He was unopposed in the general election. [10] While running for Assembly in the fall of 2022, he was also employed as an organizer for U.S. senator Ron Johnson's re-election campaign.

He took office in January 2023.

Personal life and family

Bodden is married to his high school sweetheart, Paige Mueller, and resides in the village of Stockbridge. They have two living children. [2] His 3rd-great grandfather, Jacob Bodden, an immigrant from Germany, served three terms as a Democratic member of the Assembly, and was a sheriff of Dodge County, Wisconsin.

Electoral history

Wisconsin Assembly (2018)

Wisconsin Assembly, 59th District Election, 2018
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Republican Primary, August 14, 2018 [6]
Republican Timothy Ramthun 2,851 34.42%
Republican Ty Bodden2,55630.86%
Republican Rachel Mixon2,16426.13%
Republican Ken Depperman7098.56%
Scattering20.02%
Plurality2953.56%
Total votes8,282 100.0%

Wisconsin Assembly (2022)

Wisconsin Assembly, 59th District Election, 2022
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Republican Primary, August 9, 2022 [9]
Republican Ty Bodden 7,891 63.93%
Republican Vinny Egle4,44736.03%
Scattering60.05%
Plurality3,44427.90%
Total votes12,344 100.0%
General Election, November 8, 2022 [10]
Republican Ty Bodden 25,716 99.36%
Scattering1650.64%
Total votes25,881 100.0% -11.32%
Republican hold

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References

  1. ↑ "Ty Bodden - Candidate for Wisconsin State Assembly - District 59". BallotReady. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 "About Me". Ty Bodden for Assembly. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
  3. 1 2 Sewell, Grayson (July 25, 2022). "Egle, Bodden face off in Republican primary Aug. 9". Washington County Daily News. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
  4. ↑ DeFour, Matthew (January 24, 2018). "Conservative lawmaker Jesse Kremer announces he won't seek re-election". Wisconsin State Journal . Retrieved December 8, 2022.
  5. ↑ "Rep. Jesse Kremer Endorses Ty Bodden for the 59th Assembly District" (PDF). Ty Bodden for Assembly (Press release). June 12, 2018. Retrieved December 8, 2022– via The Wheeler Report.
  6. 1 2 Canvass Results for 2018 Partisan Primary - 8/14/2018 (Report). Wisconsin Elections Commission. August 31, 2018. pp. 78–79. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
  7. ↑ Bodden, Ty [@TyBoddenWI] (April 21, 2022). "Today, I officially announce my candidacy for Wisconsin'a 59th Assembly district!" (Tweet). Retrieved December 8, 2022– via Twitter.
  8. ↑ "Ty Bodden announces candidacy for 59th Assembly District". Ty Bodden for Assembly (Press release). April 21, 2022. Retrieved December 8, 2022– via Washington County Insider.
  9. 1 2 Canvass Results for 2022 Partisan Primary - 8/9/2022 (PDF) (Report). Wisconsin Elections Commission. August 26, 2022. pp. 48–49. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
  10. 1 2 Canvass Results for 2022 General Election - 11/8/2022 (PDF) (Report). Wisconsin Elections Commission. November 21, 2022. p. 22. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
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