WI-GOV: Minocqua Brewing Company owner and liberal activist Kirk Bangstad (D) says he's running for governor
Kirk Bangstad, the controversial liberal activist and owner of Minocqua Brewing Company, has joined the crowded race for governor of Wisconsin, he announced on social media over the weekend.
The livestreamed announcement came days after Bangstad was interviewed by the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI for comments he made on Facebook following an alleged assassination attempt on President Donald Trump.
Bangstad described that encounter with law enforcement to a group of supporters who gathered at his bar on Saturday, over the course of a nearly hour-long live Facebook video during which he poured a range of his politically inspired and cheekily named beers, and criticized fellow Democrats and the news media.
About 45 minutes in, he said that that experience, and the broader state of American democracy, had inspired him to run for governor.
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