Robin Vos was interviewed by WISN-TV reporter Matt Smith regarding the status of the administrator for the Wisconsin Election Commission, Meagan Wolfe. Vos said that he saw no need to impeach Wolfe since she had been voted down by the state senate. Vos went on to say if the WEC doesn't name a replacement, he and the head of the senate would do so once the legal requirements were met.
But Vos was lying the whole time.
As soon as the Wisconsin state senate voted to oust Wolfe, Attorney Josh Kaul filed a lawsuit to stop the GQP from trying to replace her. Wisconsin's GQP doubled down on the dumb the following week by starting to circulate articles of impeachment, which, of course, we meaningless since they were based on a false premise.
Vos dodged the question of impeachment because he did not want to admit that they did not have the votes to get their dirty work done.
But the real kicker came on Monday when it was learned that the GQP, in response to Kaul's lawsuit, admitted that they were just kidding and that the vote was merely "symbolic:"
Republican legislators are asking a judge to require that the Wisconsin Elections Commission immediately pick a replacement for the state’s top elections official, acknowledging the current officeholder, Meagan Wolfe, is remaining in her position lawfully.
The documents, filed Friday afternoon by attorneys representing legislative leaders, mark a new development in the lawsuit over whether Wolfe, WEC's administrator, should be allowed to remain in her job.
In an apparent shift in their position, the legislators acknowledge that a Senate vote last month to ostensibly remove Wolfe from office was “symbolic,” had “no legal effect” and that she is lawfully holding over in her role after her term expired on July 1.
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The legislators said in the filings that they agree a committee of top lawmakers, called the Joint Committee on Legislative Organization, cannot appoint a replacement for Wolfe.
It would not be surprising that when the news broke, a flurry of open records requests were sent to see exactly when Robin Vos was aware that the vote to oust was fake and when he did the interview. It would also not be surprising if Vos drags his feet honoring those requests. He has a history of getting himself embroiled in open records violations.
It's possible that Vos figures that the GQP could weather a FOIA scandal better than they could handle being found out that they will go to any extreme to destroy democracy in the state.
