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When Tony Evers defeated Scott Walker and Democrats won statewide offices Speaker Vos and Republican legislators used a lame-duck legislative session to remove powers from newly elected Governor Evers and Attorney General Kaul.
After Joe Biden defeated President Trump to win Wisconsin’s electoral votes Speaker Vos called committee meetings to question the election results .He appointed Michael Gableman to investigate the election results. Fourteen months later at a cost of $2 million amid wild conspiracy laden claims of election malfeasance there was no evidence of voting irregularities found.
Before the electoral votes could be counted in Washington D. C. Wisconsin Republican officials met secretly in the Capitol [closed due to the pandemic] and sent illegal fake electoral ballots via Sen. Ron Johnson as part of a plot to overturn Biden’s election victory.
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Following the 2022 election which returned Evers and Democrats to statewide offices but gave Republicans a super majority control of the legislature; Vos rejoiced publicly that they now had the power to impeach elected state officials including state Supreme Court justices.
Vos and Republican legislators simply refuse to accept the results of our elections and respecting the decisions of the majority of Wisconsin’s voters. Vos and colleagues apparently believe only Republicans should be allowed to govern in Wisconsin.
–Hanson, of Elkhorn, is a member of the Walworth County Democratic Party.
