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Archae

(46,354 posts)
Fri Jan 21, 2022, 02:58 PM Jan 2022

Wisconsin republican says the quiet part out loud...

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 Behnke’s 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, he’s going to punch him.

https://www.wbay.com/2022/01/21/wisconsin-gop-lawmaker-calls-election-cheating-video/

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Wisconsin republican says the quiet part out loud... (Original Post) Archae Jan 2022 OP
Cool beard, bro. YOUR face is eminently slappable. And punchable. So there, fuckstick. CurtEastPoint Jan 2022 #1
He looks like... 2naSalit Jan 2022 #2
Why do they always look like this?? leftieNanner Jan 2022 #8
Why would someone glue pubes to their face? Nevilledog Jan 2022 #11
This is what they teach in 'bible college.' CurtEastPoint Jan 2022 #3
Echelon is probably already owned ... just sayin (nt) Hugh_Lebowski Jan 2022 #7
Surely he "misspoke" like McConnell. live love laugh Jan 2022 #4
Backpfeifengesicht Jilly_in_VA Jan 2022 #5
Lordy, what has happened to my state, Wisconsin? Poiuyt Jan 2022 #6
It's not just Wisconsin. Archae Jan 2022 #9
It's a sickness... Bluethroughu Jan 2022 #10
And yet they haven't been able to produce any proof of Democrats' cheating. tanyev Jan 2022 #12

CurtEastPoint

(18,666 posts)
3. This is what they teach in 'bible college.'
Fri Jan 21, 2022, 03:08 PM
Jan 2022

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?

Poiuyt

(18,130 posts)
6. Lordy, what has happened to my state, Wisconsin?
Fri Jan 21, 2022, 03:21 PM
Jan 2022

I'm really embarrassed by some of the politicians here.

Archae

(46,354 posts)
9. It's not just Wisconsin.
Fri Jan 21, 2022, 03:24 PM
Jan 2022

The far-right has infested the GOP now, in many states, promising violence and "taking over."

Bluethroughu

(5,202 posts)
10. It's a sickness...
Fri Jan 21, 2022, 04:37 PM
Jan 2022

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)
12. And yet they haven't been able to produce any proof of Democrats' cheating.
Fri Jan 21, 2022, 06:35 PM
Jan 2022

We’re that fiendishly diabolical.

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