Michels went to talk radio to cite a report on the conservative Wisconsin Right Now website, which listed more than $ 30 million in property that Michels had purchased in New York and Connecticut between 2015 and 2020. The report also showed that His children attended and graduated from high school on the East Coast between 2013 and 2021. Michels is in a Republican quadruple race for governor. The winner of the August 9 qualifiers will qualify to face Democratic Tony Evers. Michels, who entered the governor’s race last week, said in an interview Monday with conservative radio presenter Dan O’Donnell that he has lived in Wisconsin for at least 183 days a year to maintain his residence, both for voting. as well as for paying taxes. He lived most of 2015 in New York and paid taxes there that year, he said. Michels has paid more than $ 11.2 million in personal income taxes in Wisconsin over the past 10 years, including $ 7.8 million over the past five years, his campaign said. To be a candidate for governor, a candidate must be a suitable voter in Wisconsin. Records held by the Wisconsin Election Commission show that Michels regularly voted in Wisconsin over the past decade, including both in person and in absentia. Michels said the only time he voted absent was to vote early in Wisconsin. “I have never cast a ballot by mail from any other state,” he said. Michels said his family decided to buy a property in New York after his construction company, Michels Corp., won a $ 201 million contract for subway work there in 2013. The project ended in 2016. “We did the right thing for our family,” Michels said. “I did the right thing for the company. But I have always been a resident of Wisconsin. “I go where it is needed, where things are difficult.” Michels played his part in Wisconsin at an event he said was just down the road from where he grew up in Dodge County. He still has a home in Hartland, Waukesha County, and is using this address to vote. In 2020, Michels bought a $ 17 million home in Greenwich, Connecticut and still owns the Manhattan penthouse he bought in 2015 for $ 8.7 million. “We probably could have come back a few years ago,” Michels said in a radio interview, but said they did not want to disturb their daughter’s high school student. He graduated from a high school in New York in 2019, according to the Wisconsin Right Now report. Michels also reported that his son, now a freshman in Dartmouth, was a competitive high school sailor and a top recruit. “There are some very competitive East Coast trips to Connecticut, some would say they are more competitive, and it worked,” Michels said. “It was, without a doubt, I do not think anyone could drill into it, one of the top three recruits in the country last year.” Michels Corp. won another $ 100 million project in Brooklyn after the completion of the subway, which also required a lot of space, Michels said. He did not say whether the project was ongoing and whether he was continuing to split his time between Wisconsin and the East Coast. His campaign spokesman, Chris Walker, said he was considering it. “I’m the guy on the ballot. “I am the one who claims a governor because I can no longer stand it,” Michels said in a radio interview. “Anyone trying to portray my family as anything other than genuine Wisconsin workers is just politics.”
