Conservative Critics of Robin Vos Submit Signatures to Force Recall

Thursday, May 30th, 2024 -- 10:01 AM

(Shawn Johnson, Wisconsin Public Radio) For the second time this year, conservative critics of Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos say they’ve submitted thousands of signatures to force a recall election of the powerful Republican, though it remains unclear whether their latest effort will succeed or again fall short.

According to Shawn Johnson with Wisconsin Public Radio, standing outside the downtown Madison office of the Wisconsin Elections Commission Tuesday, recall organizers said they had gathered more than 9,000 signatures to recall Vos.

If all the signatures are found to be valid, it would be more than enough to force a recall election against Vos. “When the sufficient number of signatures is validated out of this batch, robins is going to lose the recall race,” said former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, who has feuded with Vos for the past couple years. “I know that. He knows that. Everybody knows.”

In a written statement, Vos said recall organizers had “engaged in election fraud on a massive scale” in the first attempt, and alleged that the latest effort would have similar problems.

“Once again, we look forward to rooting out any criminality and ensuring that anyone who participates in an effort to defraud Wisconsin voters is held accountable,” Vos said.

The initial recall was launched in January by outspoken supporters of former President Donald Trump, who were angry with Vos for criticizing Trump and for blocking an effort to impeach WEC Administrator Meagan Wolfe.

That effort failed after the bipartisan members of the Elections Commission voted unanimously that organizers failed to submit enough signatures. Organizers launched a second recall in late March, arguing Vos “should be recalled for his tacit support of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),” a “lack of election integrity” and “flagrant disrespect for his own constituents by calling them ‘whack-jobs, morons and idiots.’”

Those insults and others were lobbed at recall organizers by Vos after it was clear the first recall attempt was headed for failure.

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