GOP state Sen. André Jacque announced today he won’t seek reelection to his northeastern Wisconsin seat.
Jacque is the sixth Republican in the 18-member Senate GOP caucus to retire.
“This is not farewell – there is still much to be done and I will always work for a brighter future for our state and the advancement of those worthy ideas that never quite made it all the way through the legislative process,” Jacque said in an overnight statement. “I do not yet know all of what will come next, but I do know this: I have been greatly blessed, and God’s not done with me yet.”
Jacque, 45, spent four terms in the Assembly before he was elected to the 1st SD in 2018 while living in DePere. But the new maps put in place in 2024 placed him in the 30th SD, and he established a new residence in the 1st. Still, WisPolitics reported last fall he was one of at least five GOP lawmakers drawn into new seats who still owned homes in their old districts that their spouses used as their addresses when voting in spring 2025.
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Jacob VandenPlas, founder of DC Farm for Vets and a 13-year Wisconsin National Guard veteran from Sturgeon Bay who ran for the 8th CD as a Libertarian in 2022, registered last month to run for the deep red seat as a Republican. So has Dem entrepreneur Sean Grorich, of Sturgeon Bay, and independent Mark Becker, of Luxemburg.
