GET ME REWRITE: Georgia grand jury recommends charges against crackpot election denier attorney with ties to Milwaukee billionaire’s boys club

 

Headline:  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9/8/2023

The Fulton County, Georgia, special grand jury recommended charges be brought against 39 individuals — including Cleta Mitchell, a former partner with the Milwaukee-based Foley & Lardner firm and secretary of the Bradley Foundation — for their role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. President Joe Biden defeated Trump by about 11,000 votes in Georgia. 

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By contrast, the Bradley Foundation, which has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into building the national conservative political infrastructure, said it cannot be involved in politics because it's a nonprofit.

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Wisconsin Examiner, 8/2/2021

Based in Milwaukee, the group has long funded Republican causes from school vouchers to controversial “The Bell Curve” co-author Charles Murray — as well as arts activities that have led to a positive civic reputation. But the private, tax-exempt foundation is funding a number of groups tied to the Republican “Big Lie” that former President Donald Trump won the election because there was massive fraud. 

On Bradley’s board of directors is one of The Big Lie’s foremost propagators, attorney Cleta Mitchell, who notoriously joined Trump on his phone call to pressure Georgia election officials into “finding” more than 11,000 votes to overturn that state’s results. (The article gives a deep dive into her past, starting from her time as a liberal.)  [emphasis added]

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