DECISIONS.
>> ZAK THANKS, APPRECIATE IT.
>> THANKS.
>>> SPEAKING OF THE SUPREME
COURT THE QUESTION OF THE
ADMINISTRATOR OF THE WISCONSIN
ELECTIONS COMMISSION WILL KEEP
HER JOB WILL LIKELY BE DECIDED
IN THE COURTS.
>> REPUBLICANS IN THE
LEGISLATURE WANT TO SEE MEAGAN
WOLFE REMOVED FROM HER POSITION.
THEY HELD A PUBLIC HEARING THIS
WEEK ON HER RE-NOMINATION TO RUN
THE ELECTIONS COMMISSION.
EXCEPT SHE HASN'T TECHNICALLY
BEEN RENOMINATED.
DEMOCRATS CALL THE HEARING A
SHAM.
THE ROOM WAS FULL OF ELECTION
CONSPIRACY THEORISTS LIKE MIKE
GABALMAN, CALLED EMBARRASSMENT
TO THE STATE BY ASSEMBLY SPEAKER
ROBIN VOS AFTER THE ELECTION
INVESTIGATION COST THE TAXPAYERS
M
MILLIONS AND PRODUCED NO
EVIDENCE OF FRAUD OR WRONGDOING.
AS TO WOLFE AND ELECTIONS
COMMISSION, EARLIER THIS SUMMER
THE SIX MEMBERS OF WEK HELD A
VOTE TO RENOMINATE WOLFE FOR THE
JOB.
THE THREE REPUBLICANS VOTED YES,
HOPING TO SEND HER NAME TO THE
REPUBLICAN SENATE WHERE THE GOP
SAID THEY WOULD VOTE HER DOWN.
EFFECTIVELY FIRING HER.
BUT THE THREE DEMOCRATS ON THE
COMMISSION ABSTAINED FROM VOTING
AND SINCE STATE LAW REQUIRES
FOUR VOTES FOR A NOMINATION,
WOLFE IS ABLE TO CONTINUE TO
STAY ON, EVEN AS HER TERM HAS
EXPIRED.
DEMOCRATIC ATTORNEY GENERAL JOSH
KAUL ADVISED WOLFE NOT TO ATTEND
THE HEARING, CITING A CASE
CALLED BAWSON IN 2022 IN WHICH
THE HIGH COURT RULED FRED PREHN
COULD STAY ON NATURAL RESOURCES
BOARD PAST HIS TERM .
THE REPUBLICAN SNALT SENATE
PASSED RESOLUTION SAYING WOLFE
RENOMINATED AND CALLED THE
HEARING.
DEMOCRATS SAY THE FIX IS TO
CHANGE THE LAW MAKING IT CLEAR
APPOINTED OFFICIALS HAVE TO STEP
DOWN WHEN THEIR TERM EXPIRES.
>> I GUESS I WOULD JUST SAY IN
TERMS OF THE LEGISLATURE, GIVING
AWAY ITS AUTHORITY, WE ARE THE
ONES THAT EMPOWERED THE
SIX-MEMBER BIPARTISAN COMMISSION
WITH THE ABILITY TO HAVE THE
FIRST SAY IN THE PROCESS OF
APPOINTING AN ADMINISTRATOR.
THEY HAVE TAKEN A VOTE AND THEY
HAVE NOT MADE A NOMINATION.
SO IF WE DON'T LIKE THAT, WE ARE
WELCOME TO CHANGE STATUTE BUT
THAT IS THE STATUTE THIS
LEGISLATURE CREATED.
>> JUST UNFORTUNATE WE ARE GOING
TO WIND BACK UP IN COURT FOR
TRYING TO EXERCISE OUR OWN
AUTHORITY.
IT WAS NEVER INTENDED THIS TO
PLAY OUT THIS WAY.
FIT WAS BY SOME -- WE KNEW THIS
WAS GOING TO HAPPEN, WE