Dear Wisconsin Public Radio, Say it with me: VOTER SUPPRESSION. Best, Retiring Guy

 

Call it what it is.

Headline:  Wisconsin Public Radio, 7/15/2022

Note:  Steineke takes early retirement

In a letter released Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Assembly Speaker Pro Tempore Tyler August called on the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules to suspend the proposed rule, which would kill it. 

"WEC does not cite any explicit statutory authority that allows it to promulgate a rule covering all of these issues," wrote the GOP leaders. 

The co-chair of Legislature's joint rules committee, Sen. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, has been among the most outspoken critics of the WEC. A spokesperson for Nass told WisPolitics.com that the panel would meet next week to suspend the rule.

2/24/2022 update starts here

Wisconsin Public Radio, 2/22/2022

Other proposals passed by Republicans would, in a variety of ways, make absentee voting more difficult. 

"There is extra documentation required to vote absentee, and that is just a fact," said Sen. Kathy Bernier, R-Chippewa Falls. "If you don't want to fill out the papers, then by gosh, show up at the polling place."

Let's call this statement what it is.

Merriam-Webster

Kathy is just trying to deflect attention from the GOP's national campaign to limit people's ability to vote.

Washington Post, 3/11/21021

Original 2/22/2022 post, "WUWM's Chuck Quirmbach can't bring himself to say VOTER SUPPRESSION", starts here.

Headline from WUWM, 2/21/2022

Chuck must be taking a class in Newspeak.

The proposals are part of a nationwide effort by Republicans to reshape elections following President Joe Biden’s win over then-President Donald Trump, who has falsely claimed the election was stolen.  [emphasis added]