{"id":6922,"date":"2023-11-08T01:42:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T02:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=6922"},"modified":"2023-11-08T03:00:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T03:00:28","slug":"robin-vos-nowhere-near-consensus-on-wolfe-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=6922","title":{"rendered":"Robin Vos: Nowhere Near Consensus on Wolfe Impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wolfe-impeachment\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The top Republican in the Wisconsin Assembly is not saying there will never be a vote to impeach the state\u2019s elections chief, but there won\u2019t be a vote anytime soon.<\/p>\n

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Assembly Speaker Robin Vos told reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday there\u2019s not enough support among Republicans to call for a vote to oust Meagan Wolfe as Wisconsin Elections Commission administrator.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a brief discussion about it, and we are nowhere near a consensus,\u201d Vos said.<\/p>\n

A handful of Republican lawmakers are demanding Vos call for an impeachment vote.<\/p>\n

They want Wolfe out for how she handled the 2020 election, and how she has responded to Republican questions about her job performance since then.<\/p>\n

Part of the GOP demands include a threat to oust Vos if he doesn\u2019t act.<\/p>\n

\"MeaganState Rep. Janel Brandtjen, R-Menonomnee Falls, on Monday accused Vos of protecting Wolfe.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy is Speaker Vos so committed to safeguarding Wolfe that he is willing to misrepresent the legislature\u2019s authority and the Constitution to retain her in her position? Wolfe has violated the law, not just in the Teigen case ruled upon by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, but also in her mismanagement of elections, which could constitute legitimate grounds for her removal under the Constitution,\u201d Brandtjken said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to move on. The election in 2024 should not be about what occurred in 2020,\u201d Vos said. \u201cI think we need to move forward and talk about the issues that matter to most Wisconsinites. And that is not, for most people, obsessing about Meagan Wolfe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republican lawmakers launched two investigations into how Wolke and the Elections Commission handled ballot drop boxes, indefinitely confined voters, millions spent in the state by the Mark Zuckerberg-backed Center for Tech and Civic Life and dozens of other questions.<\/p>\n

Neither of those investigations yielded many answers.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin\u2019s senate president has also called for Wolfe\u2019s impeachment, saying she has come close to corrupt conduct in office. That call, too, has stalled.<\/p>\n

There was also a vote in the Senate to fire Wolfe, claiming her appointment had run out. Though Senate leaders last month admitted that vote was mostly symbolic.<\/p>\n

Vos said he cannot predict what will happen in the future but said he does not see the Assembly taking a vote on Wolfe\u2019s future anytime soon.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Trump posted Brandtjen\u2019s press release on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

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