Spencer Zimmerman

Spencer Zimmerman (Born September 28, 1979) is an American perennial candidate, United States Air Force veteran and truck driver. Zimmerman has ran for elected office as a Republican in Nebraska and Wisconsin. He ran unsuccessfully for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district in 2016, losing the primary to Paul Ryan. He most recently ran in the 2018 Republican primary for Secretary of State of Wisconsin.

Zimmerman was born on September 28, 1979 in Neenah, Wisconsin. He attended McFarland High School and graduated in 1998. He was stationed at Offutt Air Force Base during the September 11 attacks and received the Joint Service Achievement Medal for meritorious service. During his time in the military, Zimmerman obtained a commercial driver's license to drive a semi for a mobile unit and graduated from the Community College of the Air Force with a degree in Information Systems Technology. After an honorable discharge Spencer obtained a B.S. in Business Administration from Edgewood College. He has worked as a tanker truck driver for an agricultural cooperative, as a Signature Line Service Technician at Chicago Executive Airport, and is employed as a chauffeur for Presidential Transportation Service.

In 2012 Zimmerman starting a business called “The Super PAC Store” creating 12 Political Action Committees, and offered them for sale on both EBay and Craigslist. Six were sold on July 4, 2012 for $300, but the transaction was cancelled after it was revealed that the buyer was a foreign national from Turkey, making him ineligible to legally complete the sale. In 2017, the Super PAC Store began acquiring Twitter handles and offering them to candidates under IT consulting contracts, citing the 2009 acquisition by CNN of the Twitter handle @CNNbrk from web developer James Cox.