{"id":3591,"date":"2023-03-31T02:43:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T02:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3591"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:03:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T21:03:51","slug":"felon-chantia-lewis-threatens-milwaukee-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3591","title":{"rendered":"Felon Chantia Lewis Threatens Milwaukee Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/badgerbubbler.com\/news\/felon-chantia-lewis-threatens-milwaukee-candidate\">https:\/\/badgerbubbler.com\/news\/felon-chantia-lewis-threatens-milwaukee-candidate<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ChantiaLewis02.jpg\" alt=\"ChantiaLewis02\" width=\"200\" height=\"174\" style=\"margin: 15px;border: 2px solid #000000;float: left\" \/>Chantia Lewis, the disgraced felon who pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations has threatened to turn in a candidate for the Common Council because they didn&#8217;t pull all their campaign yard signs within the 7-day period after they were unsuccessful in their run for office.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a common problem in Milwaukee and not everyone can canvass the district and get all the signs in the 7-day period. Unlike the former dishonored alder, people actually have to work.\u00a0 <span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Heck, we still have Obama and Evers signs being displayed in yards in the city.<\/span>\u00a0The signs for the candidate who was threatened by the shamed former alderperson were taken down over two weekends after the election.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s look at this hypocrisy by the convicted felon.\u00a0 She pleaded guilty to a felony: misconduct in public office and \u201cA review of the documents for all of the alderpersons showed material inconsistencies in Lewis\u2019s filings as well as in her reimbursement for city-approved travel. In particular, they showed that Lewis had received reimbursement from the City of Milwaukee for travel, which travel she then paid for out of her campaign account, Chantia 4 Progress, keeping the reimbursement for herself\u201d says the complaint.<sup>1<br \/><\/sup><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><br \/>She was charged with [1] Misconduct in Public Office (Act in Excess of Lawful Authority, [2] Theft (Embezzlement, value exceeding $10,000), [3] Theft by Fraud (value not exceeding $2,500), [4] Campaign Finance &#8211; Intentionally File False Report or Statement, [5] Campaign Finance &#8211; Intentionally Accept Unlawful Disbursement<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">.<br \/><sup><br \/><\/sup>She also claimed a lack of knowledge of campaign laws as the reason that she broke the laws she was convicted of.<sup>\u00a0 <\/sup>The hypocrisy of this is beyond a Babylon Bee headline.<sup>\u00a0 <\/sup>This is the type of hypocrisy that is prevalent in the City of Milwaukee.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a Democrat, then the laws don&#8217;t apply to you, but if you don&#8217;t tow the liberal line you are held to an overly strict enforcement of laws.<sup><br \/>1<\/sup>(quote from Urban Milwaukee, Dec 7, 2022).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/badgerbubbler.com\/news\/felon-chantia-lewis-threatens-milwaukee-candidate Chantia Lewis, the disgraced felon who pleaded guilty to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-badger-bubbler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3594,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions\/3594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}