Retiring Guy's Digest

Sunday, September 10, 2023

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.

Related reading:

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]

Conservatives in bed together: The Bradley Foundation and the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (the voter suppression edition). (11/14/2019)

UPDATE: Apparently, Scott Walker has moved governor's office to 1241 North Franklin Place in Milwaukee. (6/8/2017)
The Michael W. Grebe/Scott Walker connections. (10/23/2015)

The money link between Scott Walker and 2 contributors to the National Governors Association Conference. (8/2/2013)

Wisconsin's conservative Bradley Foundation manages to avoid the spotlight. (11/21/2011)

GET ME REWRITE: The company Tom Tiffany keeps (Marjorie Taylor Greene edition)

Headline: Wisconsin Examiner, 9/10/2023

Under the Freedom to Breathe Act, federal officials would be blocked from issuing orders that would require mask-wearing on airplanes, public transit, or in educational settings, according to the bill that was first shared with the Washington Examiner. That ban would extend to President Joe Biden and would also prevent officials from denying services to travelers or students if they refuse to wear a face covering.

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The House version has already attracted 13 co-sponsors, including Reps. Jeffrey Duncan (R-SC), Mike Collins (R-GA), Mary Miller (R-IL), Ryan Zinke (R-MT), Matt Rosendale (R-MT), Andy Ogles (R-TN), George Santos (R-NY), Tom Tiffany (R-WI), Bill Posey (R-FL), Ralph Norman (R-SC), Lance Gooden (R-TX), Dan Bishop (R-NC), and Michael Guest (R-MS). [emphasis added]

Related posts:

August 2023

Meet Trump sycophant, election denier, and sham congressman Tom Tiffany. (8/4)

In so many words, Tom Tiffany says he'd get shellacked running against Tammy Baldwin in 2024. (8/2)

July 2023

When clowns consider running for political office. (7/20)

Wisconsin's most conservative US House member, the dithering Tom Tiffany, picks up fundraising as he considers a US Senate run. (7/18)

Wannabe GOP candidate for US Senate trembles and dissembles in the long shadow of Tammy Baldwin. (7/14)

If Tammy Baldwin is so vulnerable, why are Republicans cowering in her presence? (7/14)

April 2023

Election de]nier and Trump sycophant Tom Tiffany considers challenging Tammy Baldwin in 2024. (4/21)

Trump sycophant Tom Tiffany considers a Senate run against Tammy Baldwin. (4/18)

Day 1044 of GOP election denier hysteria (Trump Big Lie Clown Show Circus, Michigan edition)

ATTACK Of the Clown Show zombies

starring michigan queen of election deniers

Meshawn maddock

Headline: Michigan Advance, 9/8/2023

“I’m an elector for Donald Trump from the Michigan Republican Party,” Meshawn Maddock said during a Dec. 16, 2020, interview on the right-wing, Lansing-based Steve Gruber Show. “I, along with the other 15 electors, were guided by legal minds – attorneys for our president, some very incredible constitutional attorneys – I’ve never in my whole life appreciated legal minds and attorneys before.”
“I can tell you that in the last few weeks, just some incredible minds,” continued Maddock. “And from what I understand, you know, you have the federal constitutional law, and then you have state statutes, and they’re two different things. So, what we did along with seven other states, really send in dueling electors, and that will be there before, you know, a federal constitutional attorney, and it’ll be before [former Vice President] Mike Pence and Congress to make that decision.”