Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos called those who are trying to oust him in a recall effort “whack jobs and morons.”
The Republican assemblyman is being targeted in a recall effort by supporters of former President Donald Trump who opposed Vos’s decision not to impeach the state’s election officials and certify the 2020 election results. Vos said the people who tried to recall him were “out of touch with reality.”
“The people who did this? Whack jobs and morons,” he said.
Vos, who has been a member of the Wisconsin Assembly since 2005, faced an unsuccessful primary challenge in 2022 from a pro-Trump candidate. The former president accused him of covering up election corruption in the Badger State when he refused to decertify the election results. Vos worked with former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman on a $1.1 million 14-month investigation into election fraud in the state.
An initial review from the Wisconsin Election Commission determined that the recall did not have enough valid signatures from Vos’s district. The Racine County district attorney is investigating claims from some people who say their signatures were forged.
Recall organizers said the signature discrepancy was because some “unverified petitions slipped through due to a volunteer oversight” and that it was an isolated mistake.
Vos said he found “a ton of fraud” including 400 duplicated signatures, missing and misspelled information, and the names of people who did not actually sign. He said even his own name was signed on the recall. He said he predicts that more than half of the 11,000 signatures will turn out to be invalid.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission asked the state Supreme Court to determine which entity will determine which signatures are valid in the wake of the new legislative maps. In a 5-2 ruling, the high court gave both parties until Thursday to file a response to the request for clarity from the commission.
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“The court should not even pretend to be poised to issue a decision in a nonexistent case presenting a hypothetical question,” Justices Annette Ziegler and Rebecca Bradley said in their dissent. They believed the question was premature, as a recall had not yet been issued.
The commission has until April 11 to decide if a recall will be issued.
