Daniel Crego (Tomah Area School District, At-large, Wisconsin, candidate 2025)

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Daniel Crego

Nonpartisan

Candidate, Tomah Area School District, At-large

Elections and appointments

Last election

April 1, 2025

Personal

Birthplace

Milwaukee, WI

Religion

Lutheran - ELCA

Profession

Engineering consultant

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Daniel Crego ran for election to the Tomah Area School District, At-large in Wisconsin. He was on the ballot in the general election on April 1, 2025.

Crego completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Daniel Crego provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on February 9, 2025:

• Birth date: December 10, 1980
• Birth place: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• High school: Tomah High School
• Associate: WITC-Rice Lake (Northwood Technical College), 2001
• Gender: Male
• Religion: Lutheran - ELCA
• Profession: Engineering Consultant
• Incumbent officeholder: No
• Campaign slogan: Finding Common Ground
• Campaign Facebook

Elections

General election

General election for Tomah Area School District, At-large (2 seats)

Incumbent James Newlun, incumbent Catey Rice, Daniel Crego, and Heidi Hammes ran in the general election for Tomah Area School District, At-large on April 1, 2025.

		Candidate
	Submit photo	James Newlun (Nonpartisan)
	Submit photo	Catey Rice (Nonpartisan)
	Submit photo	Daniel Crego (Nonpartisan)
	Submit photo	Heidi Hammes (Nonpartisan)

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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Tomah Area School District, At-large (2 seats)

Incumbent James Newlun, incumbent Catey Rice, Daniel Crego, Ryan DeFreitas, and Heidi Hammes ran in the primary for Tomah Area School District, At-large on February 18, 2025.

		Candidate
	Submit photo	James Newlun (Nonpartisan)
	Submit photo	Catey Rice (Nonpartisan)
	Submit photo	Daniel Crego (Nonpartisan)
	Submit photo	Ryan DeFreitas (Nonpartisan)
	Submit photo	Heidi Hammes (Nonpartisan)

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Endorsements

Crego received the following endorsements.

• Wisconsin AFL-CIO
• Wisconsin State AFL-CIO

Campaign themes

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Daniel Crego completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Crego's responses.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Am a lifelong Tomah resident and Class of 1999 Tomah graduate. After graduating, received an associate degree from WITC-Rice Lake (Northwood Technical College) in electronics/telecommunications. That led to a career of providing utility engineering services, specifically for rural broadband expansion. Have been with my wife for 25 years and raising three school aged (16, 13 & 10) children. Am actively engaged through volunteering & community events. Most notably leading and organizing Feed My Starving Children Tomah MobilePack, organizing and planning the Monroe Co. Pride event and recently being a 2 day facilitator for Rachel’s Challenge.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• Public schools and our district are facing new and existing challenges. I want to be involved in the conversations where decisions are being made. As for a building referendum, if and when that process starts it would be crucial to accept the lessons of the previous proposal in creating a new proposal that can be widely accepted.
• My driving motivation has been rooted in my personal experiences of being married to an educator, a parent of three district students, a friend to administrators and staff as well as being a proud Tomah community member. I like myself best when I can help and I believe that my collective life experiences are suited to being elected for a term on the Tomah School Board.
• Am unsure why yet in my observation and specifically over the past 5 months of attending board meetings, talking with district staff, other parents, students and feedback of the general public, there seems to be a disconnect in communication and a frustrated feeling of not being listened to that has led to trust issues and anger. I have found in all of it that we genuinely care and want what is best for the lifelong future of our students.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

As I value finding common ground through adversity, my goal would be to serve as a bridge between everyone wanting to be heard.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Listening

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

My blessing and curse is being able to rationalize differing view points. The blessing is being empathetic and the curse is not always being satisfied with the decision making.

What legacy would you like to leave?

Someone who did the good that they were called to do.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

Was 9 years old when the Berlin Wall fell. My mother's side of the family live in Munich. The excitement and celebration of that is the memory that sticks with me.

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

At 14, I worked at a cranberry bog picking weeds in the summer. The bog owner thought I was more interested in having fun with friends and getting a tan, which was true.

If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?

Curious George

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