2024 Wisconsin State Legislature Voter Guide: Assembly District 66

This is part of The Recombobulation Area and Civic Media’s 2024 Wisconsin State Legislature Voter Guide. Read the first part of the series, “New Board, New Game,” here. See the full district-by-district breakdown of the Wisconsin State Senate here. See the comprehensive Voter Guide here.

D: Greta Neubauer*

R: David DeGroot

Greta Neubauer is the Minority Leader in the Wisconsin State Assembly, the first openly queer and youngest person ever to hold the position. She’s served in the Assembly since 2018, winning the Democratic primary for an open seat, and was elected Minority Leader in late 2021. Her job now is to win a majority there for the first time since the 2008 election, which could make her Assembly Speaker. In an interview with The Recombobulation Area at the DNC in Chicago, she predicted that Democrats would win 52 seats and flip the chamber.

She’ll be running against David DeGroot, the Village President in Mount Pleasant, where he’s served since 2017. DeGroot was among the main local-level backers of the deal to bring Foxconn to Wisconsin, and was part of the infamous golden-shovel groundbreaking in 2018. After that plan has flamed out spectacularly and changed dramatically, with Microsoft now leading development in the region, Racine and Mount Pleasant have continued to be at odds over water and wastewater agreements made during the Foxconn deal.

CNalysis: Very Likely D

• Proj. margin: D+16

Modeled 2022 outcome: D+11.2

More: Greta Neubauer on the Civic Media airwaves