Michael Heidenreich (Lodi Town Board Supervisor 2 (Columbia County), Wisconsin, candidate 2025)
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Michael Heidenreich ran for election to the Lodi Town Board Supervisor 2 (Columbia County) in Wisconsin. He was on the ballot in the general election on April 1, 2025.
Heidenreich completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Michael Heidenreich provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on March 27, 2025:
- Birth place: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- High school: Germantown highschool
- Gender: Male
- Religion: Christian
- Incumbent officeholder: No
Elections
General election
General election for Lodi Town Board Supervisor 2 (Columbia County)
Michael Heidenreich and Michael C. Keller ran in the general election for Lodi Town Board Supervisor 2 (Columbia County) on April 1, 2025.
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Campaign themes
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Michael Heidenreich completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Heidenreich's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a life long Wisconsin resident and resident of Lodi for a decade. I am a husband of almost 20 years and the father of two daughters. I have been working for Alliant energy for 16 years and a member of IBEW.
I have been involved in politics most of my adult life as a volunteer. I decided I could no longer only give what time I could volunteer, as the choices we are facing are simply too important.
- I want connecting to my constituents to be a primary focus of my election. The involvement of the community in both the school district and the town board is the primary thing that will allow both boards to succeed. I am not running to just represent myself and what I want, I want to get the community both more involved and more accurately represented.
- I have wanted to serve my community for some time, but I hope my service inspires others. I find the act of helping others is perhaps the most important thing we can instill in our children, as it echos thru their community and their lives. I hope to both encourage this and develop ways people can volunteer for this community we love.
- Responsible governing is more than just saying I will spend the money you expect me to manage well. It is about finding ways to do more with what we have and working on the supporting the values this community holds dear. I think both boards are putting the community's ideas front and center and this is what I want to continue.
Because of my background and personal history, I have always been extremely passionate about education. I have more teachers in my family than I could shake a stick at and I have seen first hand how a good teacher can make a child's life better.
I think the ability to listen to their constituency while retaining their own values and being honest what those values are is probably the most important thing for anyone who wants to run for public office at any level. I am not going to agree on all things with almost anyone but at our core we all want good things for the community we live in. Being able to reach across those differences and find ways to get people to work towards those common goals is something I've always strived to do.
For school board, we are striving from the moment these kids enter our buildings to help them mature into the best members of our community they can be. Across the board this means supporting them thru all the challenges life can throw at them and providing the best damn teachers we can find. Managing to do this within the money we have is always going to be a huge challenge and is really going to be more difficult in the coming years. This is where the town board has similar responsibilities, in that managing the needs of the town within the budget we have will always require creative problem solving. It comes down to helping the community solve their problems as best we can.
I was 21 when 9/11 happened. I remember coming in to work a shift at TGI Fridays as a waiter. We had TVs all over and so we all watched all day as more and more images came in. It was a humbling experience that made me realize nothing is guaranteed.
It depends on what you count as a job but the first thing that I regularly did to get a paycheck or in this case cash was bail hay for a farmer. I swiftly discovered I'm mildly allergic to hay. I still finished tossing all that hay into his hay barn. I just looked really horrible at the end of the day. I worked for him again, but this time picking rocks out of a field. I loved working all day in the hot sun. It helped I was about 10 years old, as I'm sure that would be less fun now.
Building the best district your budget can afford and then find ways to accomplish all that you can outside of that budget.
The community, the students, and the staff. Most of that can be simply termed Lodi as almost all our staff and students live in our district.
I don't think I'm going to specifically target anyone other than to say if someone wants to work with our school district or our community to make those things better they have my attention and help. It's really that simple.
I absolutely see a need for advanced technical training and apprenticeships. I feel the most successful schools go talk to the employers in the surrounding area and find out what skills aren't being taught. And then find a way to incorporate that into our curriculum. Of course have to give students who are trying to attend college every opportunity to go into college with the most well supported academic career. I think we can do both at once though. We can accommodate both the academic and the technical and in doing so accommodate the needs of our students.
Given I am one, I feel people will be pretty comfortable coming to me with any issues they have as I am probably dealing with the same thing and want to solve it just as much as they do.
I am a big fan of apprenticeship and I feel some of the apprentice teacher programs that they are currently starting to implement are a real strong way to build amazing future teachers.
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Footnotes
- ↑ [Email with Wisconsin Secretary of State Election office, "Candidate list," March 12, 2025]
