Tag Archives: Robin Vos

Cultists Fail To Oust GOP Wisconsin Assembly Speaker

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports: Organizers of a recall attempt against Wisconsin’s longest-serving Assembly Speaker failed to gather enough signatures in the district he was last elected in to trigger a recall election, according to an initial review by the state elections commission. The signatures are now under scrutiny as the elections commission and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and his allies …

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Wisconsin Republicans Plot To Oust Elections Chief

CNN reports: Wisconsin Republicans, after a string of losses in hotly contested statewide races, are taking steps toward sidelining the state’s nonpartisan elections chief and undercutting the new liberal majority on the state Supreme Court. Their actions – an escalation of bitter, partisan feuds that have rankled the state government in one of the nation’s most important swing states for …

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Trump Robocalls Against “RINO” Wisconsin Speaker

The Lake Geneva News reports: Former President Donald Trump has re-upped his endorsement of conservative write-in state legislative candidate Adam Steen in the final week before Election Day. In a new prerecorded robocall, Trump again attacks incumbent Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, calling Vos “a horrendous RINO.” The former president tells voters to write-in Steen and calls Vos “an absolute disaster …

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WI Speaker Sues To Block Subpoena By Jan. 6 Panel

Axios reports: Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) on Sunday filed a lawsuit against the Jan. 6 select committee after receiving a subpoena calling him to testify before the committee Monday morning. In a letter dated Friday, committee chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) wrote that the committee wished to question Vos regarding a phone call he received this July from …

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Liberal Group Awarded Legal Fees In WI Election Suit

The Associated Press reports: A Wisconsin judge said Thursday that a Republican-ordered, taxpayer-funded investigation into the 2020 election found “absolutely no evidence of election fraud,” but did reveal contempt for the state’s open records law by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and a former state Supreme Court justice he hired. Dane County Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn awarded about $98,000 in attorneys’ …

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19 COVID Cases Linked To Wisconsin In-Person Voting

Gosh, who could have predicted this? Nineteen people who either voted in-person or worked at a polling location during Wisconsin’s state elections have tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, the state’s health department said today. Health officials are in the process of interviewing COVID-19 patients and finding out whether they voted in-person or worked at …

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