Florida
Port St. Lucie
Four bedrooms, three baths, heated pool, hot tub and pool deck.
Value
$760,900
Michele Magadance Skinner
Incoming call · out of state
Michele Magadance Skinner is phoning it in.
On the Eau Claire County Board, she hasn't shown up in person to a single winter meeting since she was elected in 2024.
See the recordEau Claire County Board · District 11
Every winter meeting: phoned in.
When the snow flies, Skinner stops showing up. From December through March, County Board minutes list her as attending virtually or absent at every full board meeting since she took office in April 2024.
12winter board meetings
0attended in person
The rest of the year, she's in the room.
Recent callsFull County Board meetings, Dec.–Mar.
Winter 2024–25
- Dec. 3, 2024Absent
- Dec. 17, 2024Phoned in
- Jan. 21, 2025Phoned in
- Feb. 2025Phoned in
- Mar. 4, 2025Phoned in
- Mar. 18, 2025Phoned in
Winter 2025–26
- Dec. 2, 2025Absent
- Dec. 16, 2025Phoned in
- Jan. 20, 2026Phoned in
- Feb. 17, 2026Phoned in
- Mar. 3, 2026Phoned in
- Mar. 17, 2026Phoned in
Source: Eau Claire County Board of Supervisors agendas & minutes. “Phoned in” = attended virtually.
So where is she calling from?
Two luxury homes. Neither one in Wisconsin.
Skinner and her husband own a lake house in Georgia and a pool home in Florida, on top of their house in Altoona. By her own account, she spends about five months a year out of state.
Georgia
Dawsonville
Four-bedroom lake house with a covered boat dock and a two-car garage.
Est. value
$735,000
Wisconsin
Altoona
The house she lists as her home when she asks Wisconsin voters for a seat in Madison.
Est. value
$546,000
“Half the time I am a cheese head, the other half I pretend to be a Georgia peach.”
— Michele Magadance Skinner, on Facebook
“Hauled the box down to Florida with me for the winter.”
— Michele Skinner, quoted in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, March 2015
Home, sweet homes
Tax breaks in two states.
Some property tax breaks are only for the place you actually live. Skinner and her husband claimed them in Wisconsin and in Georgia in the same year.
Wisconsin
A Lottery & Gaming Credit on the Altoona house, claimed every year since at least 2020.
Wisconsin only gives this credit on a primary residence.
Georgia
In 2025, a senior homestead exemption on the Dawsonville lake house. They paid no property tax on it that year.
Georgia homestead exemptions are only for a primary residence.
You can only have one home. She claimed two.
It's not just taxes. Fifteen days after voting absentee in Wisconsin in November 2020, Skinner registered to vote in Georgia and voted in its January 2021 U.S. Senate runoff.
Ask Magadance Skinner
While we were shoveling, where was she?
While we were dealing with the cold and snow, was she phoning it in from out of state?
Call Magadance Skinner
(651) 491-7222
Sources
- Eau Claire County Board of Supervisors, agendas & minutes, April 2024 – March 2026.
- Zachary Suri, “Republican in key state Senate race claimed residence in two states,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 31, 2026 (summary).
- Pat Kreitlow, “Candidate Michele Magadance Skinner's 2-state voting record”, UpNorthNews, Aug. 14, 2026.
- Baylor Spears, “Judge Blocks Democratic Effort to Boot GOP Senate Candidate From Fall Ballot”, Wisconsin Examiner via Urban Milwaukee, Aug. 23, 2026.
- St. Lucie County (FL) Property Appraiser; Dawson County (GA) and Eau Claire County (WI) property tax records.
- Michele Magadance Skinner, Facebook comment.
- Molly Guthery, “Button, button: Family discovers jars and tins full of memories,” St. Paul Pioneer Press, March 22, 2015.
The Florida and Georgia properties are held in the Robert G. Skinner Living Trust, controlled by Skinner's husband. Home values are from county records and Zillow estimates. Photos: Skinner's public Facebook posts.