January 7, 2022
John --
From all of us at the Republican
Party of Wisconsin, Happy New Year to you and yours! After laying the
foundation for success throughout 2021, we are excited to finally
reach 2022 and enter a critical Election Year – one that will
determine party control of our governor’s office, U.S. House, and U.S.
Senate. And of course, it all starts right here in
Wisconsin.
2021 was about making inroads and
laying the groundwork for victory ahead of 2022. Now, our focus is on
winning – which means supporting conservative candidates in April’s
local elections, ramping up our ground game efforts, opening new
offices, and connecting with communities across the state. Our success
thus far is thanks to the work of grassroots supporters like you – and
we hope you will join us as we work to defeat Tony Evers, elect a
Republican U.S. Senator, and win at every level of the ballot this
year.
You can read more updates about our
efforts below. As always, thank you for all that you do.
- Team WisGOP
Last week, the Republican
Party of Wisconsin issued the official Call to Convention for our
annual 2022 State Convention! This year’s event will be held at the
Marriott West in Middleton, Wisconsin on May 20-22 – and we are
excited to have our great candidates make their cases and take their
messages directly to the grassroots GOP. Room block information is
forthcoming very soon, but make sure you save the date! We’d love to
have you join us.
Once again, self-proclaimed
‘education governor’ Teachers Union Tony Evers is failing Wisconsin
students. This week, students in Milwaukee and Madison have suffered
as their schools were shuttered once again – presenting deja vu for
parents who watched their children struggle with learning loss in 2020
and 2021. Evers has been silent, but after his already disastrous
education failures including cratering student proficiency in English language
arts and math, he owes Wisconsinites answers on where he stands and
leadership on this issue.
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Poll workers are the first line of
defense for election integrity. That’s why this year, Republicans
launched a historic effort to recruit more poll workers than ever
before – resulting in approximately 5,000 poll workers submitted to
local clerks. The media has taken notice, as the Cambridge
News-Deerfield Independent reported on our efforts alongside the Dane County Republican Party that
resulted in a historic increase in Dane County and across Wisconsin.
Thank you to our grassroots activists and county party leaders across
the state who made this success possible!
Following the horrific attack in
Waukesha last month, Republicans have denounced the bail policies of
Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm, whose office allowed
Darrell Brooks to walk the streets on just $1,000 bail. Yet Tony Evers
still hasn’t answered questions on whether he will fire John Chisholm,
and Democrats like Mandela Barnes who previously opposed cash bail have remained entirely silent. Wisconsinites are
watching closely to see whether Democrats will stand up for public
safety or for violent criminals.
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In Case You Missed
It…
2021 was a rough year for Tony
Evers. First, Evers’ tax-and-spend budget of liberal priorities,
including a $1 billion tax hike, was stopped in its tracks thanks to
Republicans in the Legislature, so Evers spent the remainder of 2021
touting one of his biggest campaign promises – the Liberal Maps
Commission. The result was disastrous. Evers’ maps ignored the Voting
Rights Act and would have disenfranchised over 520,000 Wisconsin
voters – leading to a stunning bipartisan rebuke of Evers’ top
campaign promise, as seventeen Democrats in the State Assembly,
including Minority Leader Gordon Hintz, voted against Evers’ maps. In
the end, even he ignored his “Peoples Maps Commission” by refusing to
submit their maps to the state Supreme Court.
Josh Kaul closed out 2021 with a
pile of eyebrow-raising headlines. After Kaul spent his 2018 campaign
criticizing Brad Schimel for the performance of the DOJ crime lab,
Kaul’s own crime lab has been less efficient despite taking on fewer
cases. However, as usual, Josh Kaul deflected blame and even suggested
to WisPolitics that his failures were not his fault.
Empower Wisconsin reported that
Milwaukee County residents have filed an official complaint asking for
the removal of Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm, who
admitted that his office’s bail recommendation for Darrell Brooks was
“inappropriately low.” While calls for Chisholm’s ouster have mounted,
Tony Evers has refused to let Wisconsinites know where he stands on
the issue.
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