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Kevin Nicholson announces to Wisconsin Right Now and The Regular Joe that he's running for governor. Kevin Nicholson, the former combat veteran and U.S. Marine who ran No Better Friend, Corp., officially announced that he is running for governor on January 27, 2022. Instead of a traditional announcement, Nicholson made it clear that he is going to run as an outsider in the Republican primary by announcing that he was running for governor to only two news outlets: Wisconsin Right Now and The Regular Joe Show. He also urged Wisconsinites to not choose a governor who is from the "same, tired political class," and criticized critical race theory, the handling of elections, and spiking violent crime. Read his column to Wisconsin Right Now here , which announces his run. Wisconsin Right Now, which is based in southeastern Wisconsin, is the #1 Alexa ranked independent, online news site in Wisconsin and has a large following among conservatives throughout the state. The R...

Vos, Nicholson war of words erupts... Kevin Nicholson, who will announce a run for Wisconsin governor within days, told Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to "focus on doing your job" today after Vos said that Nicholson "need to not run for governor." Whose side are you on in this dispute? Vos or Nicholson? Take our poll.... [poll id="8"] Nicholson retweeted Jack Kelly, a reporter for the Capital Times, who quoted Vos, a Republican, as saying on January 19, 2022, "If @KevinMNicholson is listening, you need to not run for governor." Nicholson responded on Twitter: "Thanks, @repvos, for the political advice. Our elections are a mess, law & order is eroding, schools are failing. How about you focus on doing your job?" https://twitter.com/KevinMNicholson/status/1483897934630600705 We've learned from a well-placed source that Nicholson is going to imminently announce a run for governor as a Republican; he also would not a...

I am also angry with hundreds of politicians and generals who have allowed the war in Afghanistan to stumble forward, without a clear strategic mission, over the course of two decades. By: Kevin Nicholson One of the most frustrating aspects of politics, as a candidate, is that you often feel like you are fighting ghosts – or more accurately, cockroaches and rats. The cockroaches and rats of politics swarm about your feet in the dark, biting and nipping at your ankles, doing their best to pass their diseases onto you, only to then recede back into the dark when you move to stomp on them. I certainly felt this during my U.S. Senate campaign in 2018. But I experienced the same sensation much stronger, and much earlier, while fighting in Afghanistan in 2008 and 2009. I have lost family and friends in Afghanistan, I left behind my wife and child for months when I deployed there myself, and I am disgusted by the way that President Biden has haphazardly thrown away the sacrifices of so...

"No family should be excluded. Options must be available to every child growing up in Wisconsin," a major report on universal school choice says. The drumbeat for universal school choice in Wisconsin is growing; three of the most prominently mentioned Republicans who may run for Wisconsin governor and the one declared candidate told Wisconsin Right Now that they support giving all Wisconsin parents the right to choose the best school for their children. Their comments come on the heels of a new report released by Common Sense Wisconsin; it was co-authored by Bill McCoshen, a veteran lobbyist who was former Gov. Tommy Thompson's Commerce Secretary. McCoshen has said he's considering a run for governor. Specifically, the plan urges the state to "expand school choice to all areas of the state and eliminating the income limits for participants." We asked Jonathan Wichmann, Rebecca Kleefisch, and Kevin Nicholson whether they also support universal school ...