Wisconsin State Assembly Leader Robin Vos is facing another recall attempt from the same group that tried and failed to remove the Republican previously.
A pro-Trump group filed paperwork to start a second recall effort Wednesday. The day prior, it asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to give it more time to resolve concerns with signatures that Vos challenged on the original recall attempt.
Wisconsin Speaker of the Assembly Robin Vos talks about a stadium repair funding plan aimed at keeping the Milwaukee Brewers in Milwaukee at a news conference Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, at American Family Field in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Vos’s opponents started the second recall effort because they believe Vos has provided “tacit support for the Chinese Communist Party” and “flagrant disrespect for his own constituents by calling them ‘whack-jobs, morons, and idiots.’”
Vos previously called the people who tried to recall him “whack jobs” and “morons.”
“The whack jobs who are running the recall against me said I am [an] agent of the Chinese Communist Party,” Vos said at a WisPolitics.com event on the first recall. “That was the last text that they sent out in desperation to show people somehow that I am not a conservative Republican.
Vos has not commented on the second recall attempt. The first attempt has likely failed due to not having enough valid signatures from Vos’s district.
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Vos challenged the petition for the first attempt. He said he found “a ton of fraud” with the recall attempt. Attorneys for Vos said they found 400 duplicated signatures, missing and misspelled information, and the names of people who did not actually sign, including minors and Vos’s own name. They also included affidavits from people who said they were misled to sign the petition.
The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission will determine if the second attempt has enough signatures to force a recall election for the assembly leader. The commission has until April 11 to determine if there are enough valid signatures in the first attempt to issue a recall election. If successful, the election would likely happen in June.
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