Wisconsin Republican Who Stood Up To Trumpy Election Lies Will Not Seek Another Term

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A Wisconsin state senator who stood up to attacks on the 2020 election results from other Republicans announced Friday that she will not seek another term in office.

State Sen. Kathy Bernier (R) said in a statement that “no one has forced me out and politics has not played a role in my decision,” but the announcement came just a few weeks after she joined a small group of Republicans telling the truth about 2020. 

Bernier took aim last month at the partisan investigation of the 2020 performed by Michael Gableman, a former state supreme court justice who has stacked his review with investigators who’ve pushed lies about the 2020 election, and who has himself entertained theories about widespread voter fraud, despite lacking any evidence. Bernier called such claims “a charade.”

“No election is perfect, but there is no evidence of intentional malfeasance, no evidence that the election in 2020 wasn’t accurate,” the state senator said. She separately suggested that Gableman “wrap up sooner rather than later, because the longer we keep this up, the more harm we’re going to do for Republicans.” 

Bernier’s view was colored by her own experience with elections: she’s a former county clerk who now chairs the state senate’s Committee on Elections, Election Process Reform and Ethics.

Gableman didn’t follow the senator’s advice, blowing past an initial Dec. 31 deadline to wrap up his investigation and telling a Republican event last month — he’s attended several, including to endorse a gubernatorial candidate — “I am about to start spending more money.” 

Bernier added in her remarks last month that she planned to attend an event where Gableman was speaking publicly with her concealed carry permit, because he “keeps jazzing up the people who think they know what they’re talking about, and they don’t.”

In response, Gableman called on Bernier to resign. 

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  2. Sad but neither the first nor the last to do so…

  3. Avatar for kovie kovie says:

    I guess she wanted to save face with this obviously untrue explanation, but we all know why they’re quitting or not running again. They no longer have a place in the GOP and know that they’d get attacked, humiliated and crushed. The only viable opposition to the TOP, Trump’s Own Party, is from the outside, as either an indie or Dem, and aligning with Dems.

    It’s understandable why Putin would align himself with Trump and the TOP. Both are lifelong cheaters, thugs and con artists who refuse to play by the rules and have no interest in building anything worthwhile and lasting and see everything in terms of their own outsized and diseased egos. That one is smart and the other an imbecile is besides the point. It’s all about psychology and mutually beneficial personal alliances. And each represents (meaning exploits) a regressive, revanchist and racist faction in their respective countries that can’t and won’t get with the times and instead seeks to lower everyone else to their level. The psychology and politics of all this is quite simple and easy to understand. But how to combat it, given its primal appeal to large segments of the population who are emotionally and culturally unfit for modern life and are basically Neanderthals in our midst?

  4. Avatar for zandru zandru says:

    Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.

    And so it goes.

  5. Avatar for tao tao says:

    So what is it? Revenge from tfg or lack of support by his gaga base? Maybe she naively thought truth would get some traction in today’s GOP.

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