{"id":5804,"date":"2023-09-23T17:25:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T17:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=5804"},"modified":"2023-09-23T17:26:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T17:26:46","slug":"rebecca-kleefisch-liberals-want-to-draw-the-most-political-maps-in-wisconsin-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=5804","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Kleefisch: Liberals Want to Draw \u2018the Most Political Maps\u2019 in Wisconsin History"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/rebecca-kleefisch-liberals-want-to-draw-the-most-political-maps-in-wisconsin-history\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The liberal-controlled Supreme Court and Democratic Party want to \u201cdraw the most political maps in the history of the State of Wisconsin,\u201d former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch warned a gathering of grassroots conservatives in Wausau on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The liberals on the state\u2019s highest court are poised to go after the \u201cgreat legislators\u201d who form the Republican majority, Kleefisch said. The core of Rebecca Kleefisch\u2019s message Saturday was encouraging more conservatives to get involved in local government, especially if the legislative maps are, in fact, redrawn to favor liberals.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe lost the governor\u2019s race, and then we lost the state Supreme Court race. Where do you go as a conservative? You go to local government,\u201d she said. \u201cYou can either cry your tears in your Wisconsin beer or do something about it. The only place to get a remedy to what is ailing your government is you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf not you, who? If not now, when?\u201d she told the audience. \u201cYour house is on fire. One day, your kids and grandkids will look at you and will say, \u2018When everything was turning to ashes, what did you do?\u2019\u201d She said hopefully people can respond, \u201cI did what I could. Wouldn\u2019t it be even better if you can say, I did everything I could.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rebecca Kleefisch said liberals want to get rid of Republican control of the Legislature.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey want to take every one of those districts away from conservatives. They want free rein. They want to return to the (Jim) Doyle era. They want a trifecta,\u201d Kleefisch, who was a Republican candidate for governor last year, said. The speech was another step in a gradual reappearance by Kleefisch into the public square since the governor\u2019s race, although she has been working behind the scenes through the 1848 project. Her talk was well-received.<\/p>\n

According to Kleefisch, if redistricting is \u201cdecided in the courts, it\u2019s not going to be pretty.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said that out-of-state liberal billionaires and state Democratic Parties all over the country are \u201craising money to send money to Wisconsin.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said they want to draw the \u201cmost political maps on the face of the earth and then spring them on our team, our legislative majorities, within 24 to 48 hours\u201d of the deadline for gathering nomination signatures.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have been organizing this plan since 2010,\u201d she said. \u201cThey have every aim to take over the majority.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kleefisch said the liberal court will take populous liberal areas in the state and \u201cturn it into a pizza\u201d by creating multiple new Democratic districts as well as pit Republican incumbents against each other or redistrict them out of their own district completely \u201cwithin 24 to 48 hours. Watch them.\u201d<\/p>\n

In that scenario, who would have a chance to run and win in redrawn districts?<\/p>\n

\u201cLocals,\u201d said Kleefisch, returning over and over again to her grassroots theme. \u201cThat\u2019s our farm team in Wisconsin.\u201d<\/p>\n

She asked the conservative audience at the Velveteen Plum in Wausau, \u201cAre you going to be that person?\u201d<\/p>\n

She described how, two days before the speech, a Facebook memory came through of her, 14 years ago, as a \u201ctea party mom\u201d at a grassroots event. That\u2019s where she first met Meg Ellefson, the Wausau conservative talk radio host who organized the Get Involved Wisconsin, Inc. event where she spoke Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Wausau event focused on the legislative process and how a bill provides a law and also included legislative panels, former Republican Attorney General candidate Eric Toney, Congressman Tom Tiffany, Lucas Vebber of the Wisconsin Institution for Law and Liberty, representatives of the MacIver Institute, Republican Party Chair Brain Schimming, a speech by Wisconsin Right Now, and more.<\/p>\n

The tea party reference is a reminder that Kleefisch, after time as a television reporter and before she was lieutenant governor, started her political career as a grassroots mom concerned about the direction of her state and community.<\/p>\n

After the governor\u2019s primary, she has quietly returned to that nucleus \u2013 a grassroots focus \u2013 through her 1848 organization that helps recruit local candidates. She returned to that focus time and again during her speech.<\/p>\n

The tea party movement was \u201cregular folks who came together\u201d out of anger over the state\u2019s loss of \u201ceconomic principles and poor leadership and Democrats ruining the state,\u201d Kleefisch said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFolks came together after we hit rock bottom in Wisconsin and we took back control,\u201d she said. Many remember that Scott Walker\u2019s election as governor also came out of the tea party momentum, as well as the pension scandal in Milwaukee County that propelled him into office as county executive.<\/p>\n

For a time, Republicans had the governor\u2019s mansion, the Legislature AND the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday are different circumstances,\u201d said Kleefisch, noting that Republicans are \u201cjammed on either end,\u201d with Evers vetoing their bills and a Supreme Court that \u201cnow disagrees with your role.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Republican controlled Legislation, she said, is \u201can island in the middle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Local officials might not always run with a \u201cR or D after their name\u201d but some can \u201cbe swayed by your ability to lobby, and there is no better lobbyist for your family than you,\u201d said Kleefisch, who added that her organization wants to help people run for local office.<\/p>\n

Kleefisch underscored the urgency.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a fire across the state right now,\u201d said Kleefisch. \u201cThey (Democrats) have blocked our legislative majorities from either end. On this hill, our great legislators are surrounded on either side.\u201d<\/p>\n

An audience member from River Falls expressed concern about the thousands of UW-River Falls students, some commuter students and from the Twin Cities, some who register the day of voting, in a town of 15,000, and \u201cundermine everything the community does. Now multiple that by every campus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kleefisch responded, \u201cWe have to make an aggressive move for young voters\u201d and said conservatives need to encourage young conservatives to register to vote and run for political office.<\/p>\n

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