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District 44 includes most of the city of Janesville and immediate surrounding area, excluding the far east and northeast sides of the city, which lie in state Assembly District 43.

Danielson was born and raised in Janesville. Roe has lived in Janesville since 1994.

Bruce Danielson

Danielson has worked full-time as a police officer with the Janesville Police department since 2017. He is a member of the police department’s homeless outreach crisis intervention team. He previously worked for the Rock County Sheriff’s Office as a correctional officer.

He said he’s interested, after having worked for a municipality and a county, to be part of making laws.

“I’ve been interested in politics for a good four or five years now and the state assembly is where it’s at,” he said.

He characterized his general political viewpoint as a “realist,” saying he is eager to listen and learn.

“I think politics needs to kind of come back to the middle,” he said.

He said his platform is based on three things: jobs, education and security.

“I want to be committed to workforce development. I think we need more focus on that,” he said. “If you’re going to get people for the next generation, you want to help them achieve. If you’re going to help them achieve, you have to give them direction. You got to give them a sense of purpose.”

He said he is not a fan of “social programs and the disparities” that schools are pushing and feels that schools should exclusively be a place for learning.

He said teachers should be paid more and their wages and benefits need to be protected.

“There are a lot of concerned school employees out there, teachers included, and we can’t ignore that. We have to protect them. We have to protect their benefits and their future,” Danielson said.

He said funding should be maintained for school resource officers.

He said he is supportive of both private and public schools, “but the private school sector is much smaller than the public-school sector, so I support both,” he said.

He said his background in law enforcement has provided a lens into the need to change laws on bail, drunk driving and domestic violence crimes.

He said he has a “willingness to learn and the willingness to put your nose to it, that’s really all that it comes down to.”

He said that although he is conservative, he sees himself if elected as well-representing people on both sides of the political aisle. He said people all want the same thing: jobs, security and to be happy.

“I think by simply listening to people,” setting down your biases, demonstrating common courtesy, and being empathetic, you can represent constituents well, he said.

“If you don’t have empathy, you cannot work in law enforcement. I mean, you’d be surprised at how smooth it runs when you aren’t closed minded, you get a lot more cooperation.”

He said empathy, work ethic and listening are some of his best qualities.

“I’m ready to listen, I’m ready to learn, and I want to continue to serve,” he said.

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Ann Roe

Roe and her husband, Jonathan, a pediatrician, raised their two children in Janesville. Now, they are both pursuing careers in public service.

Roe has a background in finance and marketing and has worked with various non-profits. She taught in the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater College of Business and Economics for 25 years.

Currently, Roe owns a small business that helps students in grades 8-12 and beyond navigate high school, college, apprenticeships, jobs and graduate school. She also serves on several community boards, including for the Janesville Woman’s Club and Downtown Janesville, Inc.

She ran for Congress in 2022 and said she learned a lot in that process about campaigning and politics.

She said running for state Assembly is a continuation of more than 30 years of her service to her community, less about politics and more about helping people.

She said her platform focuses on public education and health care, which she said are two fundamental pieces to a successful community.

She said making education accessible to all kids and fully funding it and making sure schools, teachers and kids have what they need to succeed, is also key.

“When students do better as individuals our communities do better,” she said.

She backs expanding access to Medicaid and wants to work on making sure people are fully covered, “taking away that burden, not only off the individuals and the families, but off the small businesses,” she said. “I think that moves the entire community, the state, forward.”

She said she has a track record of working with people across the aisle and has been a leader as part of a variety of groups in the city.

She listed safe and clean drinking water and workforce readiness as key issues of interest for her.

Roe pointed to her history of leadership in the city with various different groups and service on numerous boards. She said she feels she brings experience to the table.

She said if politics can be set aside a lot of the concerns in the community are very similar and she wants to work on addressing them together.

“I know we have shared concerns, and we need to work together to get those things done,” she said. “And that’s what the voters want. The voters are tired of conflict without production.”

She said her greatest skills are that she loves people, learning and she is deeply embedded in the community.

She said that she wants to do the most good for the most people and “public service is about service without judgment,” and she wants people to vote on Nov. 5.

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