Ron works with Pastor Smith to help folks in Milwaukee find jobs
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: A little over a mile from the site of Saturday night’s riots in Milwaukee, a small church that once was a tavern now is home to one of the more improbable efforts to lift the economic fortunes of some of the city’s poorest black residents. That effort, called the Joseph Project,…
Ron and Pastor Smith talked about the need for faith and community
From Right Wisconsin: As chance would have it, U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Oshkosh) was in Milwaukee on Monday to kick-off the 12th class of “The Joseph Project,” The project is a job placement program he and his staff created with Pastor Jerome Smith to connect inner city black men with jobs at companies in Sheboygan…
Ron talked with the Oneida County Sheriff about keeping local communities safe
From News 12 Rhinelander: ONEIDA COUNTY – Usually, seeing someone riding in a squad car doesn’t bring connotations with it, but that wasn’t the case on Saturday for the Oneida County Sheriff. That’s because Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) rode along with Sheriff Grady Hartman on Saturday afternoon to learn more about the kind of problems…
Ron Talks About the Joseph Project and the Compassion of Community
Ron talked with the Wall Street Journal about the Joseph Project – a community initiative that’s helping connect folks with good jobs, and how the compassion of community can make a real difference in people’s lives. Below is an excerpt and you can read the full story here. “The senator and former plastics-making executive isn’t…
Ron works to address Wisconsin’s opiate epidemic
From Wisconsin Health News: The next steps for the federal government to fight the opiate epidemic are to begin developing task forces and distribute grant funding included in a law approved last month, according to Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. Johnson said the federal government needs to make that money available to start funding different treatments…
Ron has momentum as general election officially starts
Ron rallied with supporters on primary night as the official start to the general election gets underway. He said, “The choice in this election is clear: between an Oshkosh manufacturer and outsider like me, and a career politician who has made his living on the taxpayers’ dime and doesn’t know the first thing about creating…
Ron, Paul Ryan, local leaders opened a new field office in Kenosha
Ron, Paul Ryan, and local leaders joined grassroots supporters at a new field office in Kenosha that will improve upon Wisconsin’s best-in-the-nation ground game. Paul Ryan said, “We’re gonna fight for Ron Johnson; I believe Ron Johnson’s gonna win.” From the Kenosha News: Ryan highlighted Johnson, who is running for re-election. He is expected to face former…
Ron is taking on Washington dysfunction and making career politicians face reality
Ron is taking on Washington dysfunction and making career politicians face reality. As the Washington Examiner reported, Ron is calling out Washington career politicians for “dodging real solutions to boost job creation and defeat the Islamic State.” From the Washington Examiner: Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., says President Obama told him in 2013 that he doesn’t…
Ron works for Wisconsin veterans, calls for investigation into death of Marine veteran
From WKOW: MADISON (WKOW) — Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) joined both of Iowa’s U.S. senators in asking the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Veterans Affairs to review the case of a Wisconsin Dells native who committed suicide July 8, one day after allegedly being denied inpatient treatment at the Iowa City…
Ron’s Op-Ed: Taking on Washington dysfunction, working to improve economic & national security
Ron wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on why he’s running — to take on the Washington dysfunction and end the denial of reality about the fiscal crisis threatening our economic and national security. You can read Ron’s op-ed here, and check out a few excerpts below: “This looming crisis hangs over my evaluation…