Some of the most effective warriors in the war on election integrity are card-carrying members of the Grand Old Party.
In Wisconsin, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, according to his conservative critics, has ground to a halt a resolution that aims to impeach controversial Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) Administrator Meagan Wolfe. The state’s top election official, who is accused of committing a raft of election integrity transgressions in her turbulent tenure, has been effectively squatting in the post since the Republican-controlled state Senate voted to boot her last fall — albeit “symbolically.“
It’s a big deal. Wolfe isn’t just Wisconsin’s problem. As it stands, she is the chief administrator of elections in the battleground Badger State, one of a handful of swing states that enjoyed outsized power in deciding the 2020 election — and is poised to do so again in November.
State Rep. Janel Brandtjen, a Milwaukee-area Republican who has suffered Vos’ slings and arrows for being a thorn in the speaker’s side on election integrity, claims the man some conservatives derisively call “Boss Vos” is slow-walking Assembly Resolution 18 to its ultimate demise. The Assembly is expected to wrap up floor business by the end of the month, per the usual truncated election-year schedule.
There’s ample evidence to suggest as much. The speaker’s religiously obedient No. 2, Majority Leader Tyler August, claimed last month there’s just not enough support from rank-and-file Republicans to move the proposal out of committee, let alone to pass it in an Assembly controlled by
