Letter to the Editor: Campaign Flyer Found Lacking

Thank you, Rep. Joel Kitchens, for your recent campaign flyer touting your and the Assembly’s legislative accomplishments. To be sure, “building better relationships between condominium associations and unit owners” (Assembly Bill 570) is a commendable effort. I’m sure all of Wisconsin sleeps better knowing that that hot issue has been defused. 

However, I find it curious that there was absolutely no mention of the Assembly’s efforts in restricting our voting rights or the Assembly-directed, taxpayer-funded Gableman investigation into “voter fraud.” I would think an endeavor of that magnitude and scope would certainly be worthy of a mention. But not a word. Not proud of it, or just don’t think we need to know about it?

You stated that the resulting changes would restore confidence in the state’s election process. Excuse me? There was no lack of confidence in Wisconsin’s election process until Donald Trump and his followers created the “Big Lie” and claimed that our election officials and many Wisconsin voters had fraudulently stolen an election. The solution? Tear the system down, and re-create it in a form that serves the Assembly’s purposes: that is, to suppress the votes of non-Republican voters.

Some of us are actually paying attention.

Tom Soik

Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin