| Earlier today I filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission to bar Trump from Wisconsin’s ballot. Within hours of filing, I received this email from Angela Sharpe, Staff Attorney for the Wisconsin Elections Committee, stating that the WEC refused to hear our complaint. Here’s the email: |
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| While we didn’t anticipate them refusing to even consider our complaint, we knew they would dismiss our claim in some way, because as I wrote on Christmas Eve, the WEC was created to fail by Republicans and created to deadlock in a 3 vs 3 partisan vote on any important political issue involving elections exactly like the one we presented to them today–namely banning a former president from the ballot for aiding and abetting an insurrection. We felt that we HAD to go through this process because we were told by federal Judge Edelman in Wisconsin’s Eastern district last March that any 14th amendment claims to remove Wisconsin’s insurrectionists from the ballot, namely Senator Ron Johnson, and Congressmen Tom Tiffany and Scott Fitzgerald, had to go through the Wisconsin Elections Commission first. But just to be sure, I wrote back to Staff Attorney Sharpe and asked her if we had made any mistakes in our filing and if we needed to simply refile in some other way so that the WEC would consider it. She clearly explained that the “WEC no longer bars an individual (me) from commencing an action or proceeding regarding the complaint in a court of law.” |
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| Well, that email meant that the WEC just punted, like almost every other judge, attorney general, or electoral body forced to look at Trump with regards to the 14th amendment. We feel like this decision is a win for us because it saves my team about a month of having the WEC muddy the waters, and allows us to file in Dane County Circuit court early next week.So that’s what we’re going to do. File a lawsuit against the WEC, Donald Trump, and the Republican Party of Wisconsin as soon as we can. |
