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Resignation time...
Wisconsin GOP lawmaker calls for election cheating in video
MADISON, Wis. - A Republican Wisconsin state lawmaker has been recorded on video telling constituents that Republicans need to cheat like the Democrats or bend the rules to win upcoming elections and also made a vague threat of violence against Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
The video of state Rep. Elijah Behnke was posted online Thursday and was first reported on Friday by the Wisconsin State Journal.
In the wide-ranging 25-minute video, which appears to have been taken secretly by visitors in Behnkes Capitol office, he disparages Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos as a swamp creature and supports debunked conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
He also says that if he ever sees Evers in person, hes going to punch him.
https://www.wbay.com/2022/01/21/wisconsin-gop-lawmaker-calls-election-cheating-video/
CurtEastPoint
(18,666 posts)2naSalit
(86,817 posts)He needs a 55gal. drum of comeuppance.
leftieNanner
(15,171 posts)Creepy AF.
Nevilledog
(51,209 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,666 posts)He went on to attend bible college in northeast Georgia. In 2006, he returned to Wisconsin and started working for his mother's cleaning business. After a year, he started his own cleaning business, Eschalon Cleaning LLC.[2] In addition to his cleaning business, Behnke operates a hobby farm and is a ministry leader in his church.[3]
This poor asshole surely meant Echelon, no?
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)live love laugh
(13,142 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(10,008 posts)is just pouring from his pic. Where are my boxing gloves?
Poiuyt
(18,130 posts)I'm really embarrassed by some of the politicians here.
Archae
(46,354 posts)The far-right has infested the GOP now, in many states, promising violence and "taking over."
Bluethroughu
(5,202 posts)Koch-a-virus...it smells like corporate perspiration, and you'll know your state is infected by seeing local GOP politicians acting like zombies, cannibalizing the state resources and the people that live there.
Only remedy is voting every one of them out of office, and cleanning up the mess they left behind.
tanyev
(42,627 posts)Were that fiendishly diabolical.