MADISON – Rep. Tip McGuire issued the following statement in response to Michael Gableman’s election report:
‘Today, the Speaker’s handpicked investigator into the 2020 election delivered his report, which pushed the Legislature to decertify the presidential election. After months of hearings and subpoenas and hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars wasted, the work product that the people of Wisconsin were delivered by Michael Gableman was nothing but a restatement of the wild fantasies that the Speaker insisted that he did not believe and were not mainstream in his caucus.
“This comes one week after the Assembly passed a slew of election-related bills, many of which wrestled power away from the nonpartisan Elections Commission in favor of GOP-controlled committees. These bills were not just bad policy; they were a deliberate attempt to subvert democracy in Wisconsin by making our election process ripe for partisan corruption.
“Despite months of claiming to be different than those who explicitly sought to overturn the 2020 election, Wisconsin Republicans have proven through their legislation and their half-baked investigation that they too have contempt for the will of the people and any election system that isn’t rigged in their favor.”
