{"id":1605349,"date":"2022-08-14T08:18:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T12:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1605349"},"modified":"2022-08-14T08:18:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T12:18:38","slug":"wisconsin-assembly-speaker-fires-2020-election-investigator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-assembly-speaker-fires-2020-election-investigator\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Fires 2020 Election Investigator"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwisconsin-assembly-speaker-fires-2020-election-investigator%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1605349&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-wisconsin\">Wisconsin<\/a> Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has fired Michael Gableman more than a year after Vos hired the former\u00a0Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice to investigate the\u00a02020 election amid allegations of fraud and irregularities.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerVos\/status\/1558189772438470657?s=20&#038;t=dQTvJy5DB0l4a-SEi7aRjw\">statement<\/a>\u00a0on Aug. 12, Vos, a Republican, said he is seeking to close the Office of Special Counsel, which had been created in July 2021.\u00a0The election investigation, which documented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/wisconsin-assembly-speaker-rejects-calls-to-decertify-2020-election_4344147.html\">numerous instances<\/a> of misconduct during the 2020 election, has cost taxpayers more than $1.1 million, not including any attorney fees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter having many members of our caucus reach out to me over the past several days, it is beyond clear to me that we only have one choice in this matter, and that\u2019s to close the Office of Special Counsel,\u201d Vos said. \u201cFor those like me who remain concerned about ensuring we have election integrity, we have a simple solution; to focus on our efforts to elect a Republican governor in November so we can pass the bills that were vetoed by Governor Evers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vos\u2019s\u00a0office later released Gableman\u2019s termination letter (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/sites\/default\/files\/termination_notice.pdf\">pdf<\/a>), in which Gableman was told \u201cnot to engage in any further activities with regards to the Office of Special Counsel or as a representative of the Wisconsin State Assembly,\u201d and to return \u201cany and all records\u201d to the Wisconsin Assembly chief clerk\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis ends your employment by and association with the Wisconsin State Assembly,\u201d Vos wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The firing comes just three days after Vos narrowly survived a primary election challenge from an opponent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/2020-election-investigator-gets-surprise-during-trump-rally_4648727.html\">endorsed by Gableman as well as former President Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0for his Republican-leaning State Assembly District 63 seat. Vos won the primary by 260 votes, likely securing his reelection. Soon after he won, Vos criticized Gableman, calling him \u201can embarrassment to the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a robocall for Vos\u2019s opponent, Adam Steen, a day before the Aug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has fired Michael Gableman more than a year after Vos hired the former\u00a0Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice to investigate the\u00a02020 election amid allegations of fraud and irregularities. In a statement\u00a0on Aug. 12, Vos, a Republican, said he is seeking to close the Office of Special Counsel, which had been created in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1605349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}