Landlord GOP lawmaker backed bill that trampled on tenants’ rights: report

A Republican Wisconsin state senator — who admitted to owning "12 different residential properties" — backed legislation that would "gut tenants' rights," Heartland Signal reports.

Senator Duey Stroebel (R-Cedarburg) sponsored Assembly Bill 183 in 2013, which the report notes is just "one of many landlord-favored bills from that year which greatly benefitted landlords like himself."

Per the report, the GOP lawmaker "is seeking his third term in the Wisconsin state Senate, where he will be running for reelection in the 8th District. According to Civic Media’s 2024 Voter Guide, Stroebel is facing his first competitive race in nearly a decade after running unopposed in 2016 and 2020. Civic Media rates the contest as a tossup as Stroebel will face Democratic challenger Jodi Habush Sinykin."

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The Republican senator testified that he "knowingly included rhetoric that prevented cities from creating laws calling for landlords to communicate with tenants beyond the baseline state laws," Heartland reports.

Furthermore, the legislation made way for "landlords to withhold information about code violations from tenants, to keep or sell personal property left behind by renters without notifying them and to hold tenants responsible for insect and/or pest infestation."

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Heartland Signal's full report is available at this link.