Posted on 10/18/2024 12:12:01 PM PDT by Signalman
Democrat Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul’s Department of Justice raided the home and office of conservative Wausau Mayor Doug Diny in connection to Diny’s removal of an unsecured absentee ballot drop box, sources tell The Federalist.
The raid took place Wednesday afternoon, according to a source with information on the stunning law enforcement operation. The source, who asked not to be identified because of the developing nature of the case, tells The Federalist that law enforcement officials took cell phones and other electronic devices supposedly relevant to the investigation. That included Diny’s wife’s cell phone, the source said.
An official in the attorney general’s office told The Federalist the state justice department could provide more information on the raid. The agency has not returned a call seeking comment.
Diny could not be reached for comment Friday morning. Madison attorney Joseph Bugni, the mayor’s attorney, declined to comment.
Leftist Lawfare Activists Out for Blood As The Federalist reported last month, Diny removed the controversial absentee ballot box positioned outside city hall because he said it was not secure. Wausau City Clerk Kaitlyn Bernarde had, according to reports, decided to bring back the drop box without approval from the Wausau City Council. Bernarde told The Washington Post she noticed the drop box was missing and notified Theresa Wetzsteon, Marathon County’s Democrat district attorney. Wetzsteon told the Post that her office is now investigating.
Diny has defended his decision to remove the drop box and place it inside city hall.
The liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court in July reversed a previous 2022 conservative majority ruling by the court that had declared the widespread use of absentee ballot drop boxes illegal under state law. In the 4-3 July ruling, the Supreme Court gave Wisconsin communities the right to decide whether they want to use drop boxes or not, and where they want to place them. As The Federalist reported last month, many election offices have opted out. More than 60 local governments have decided against their use, All Voting is Local complained to CBS 58 in Milwaukee. Four years ago, drop boxes were found in 66 of 72 counties, according to the news outlet.
Wausau’s city council had yet to decide the matter when the city clerk rolled the old drop box back out. Her defenders argue that it’s up to the clerk, the city’s top election official, to ultimately decide the matter.
“The majority in this case overrules [the 2022 decision] not because it is legally erroneous, but because the majority finds it politically inconvenient,” Justice Rebecca G. Bradley wrote in a dissenting opinion. “The majority’s activism marks another triumph of political power over legal principle in this court.”
The Wisconsin Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation is acting as “lead investigator” in the probe, the Wausau Daily Herald reported earlier this month. Portage County Sheriff’s Department deputies had launched the original outside investigation, the publication noted, citing a “news release from Marathon County District Attorney Theresa Wetzsteon.”
Leftist lawfare groups have been out for blood since the mayor acted on Sept. 22. As the local paper reported, a group of four residents, including Marathon County Supervisor Randy Radtke, delivered a request to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District seeking intervention.
“We believe that Mr. Diny may have broken federal law by using his official position to interfere with citizens’ right to vote,” the residents wrote in their letter to U.S. Attorney Timothy O’Shea. “The drop box was set to be secured and ready for use by Monday, September 23, which Mr. Diny has now prevented. Citizens prepared to use this drop box for voting are now deprived of their right to do so.”
Kaul, Wisconsin’s highly partisan Democrat attorney general, who previously worked for leftist lawfare king Marc Elias’ old law firm, Perkins Coie, has been stepping up his attacks on conservatives of late. In June, the attorney announced charges in his phony “fake electors” case against a respected former Dane County judge and attorney for former President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign. As The Federalist has reported, that trumped-up case appears to be unraveling by the facts, not the least of which is the fact that Kaul’s Department of Justice had previously concluded there was no crime committed.
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Mayor: “I want honest elections.”
DOJ: “We will end you.”
Back the blue
When everything you do is based on lying and cheating, there will always be a knowledge deep down that the only real victory will come when you finally turn from your wicked ways.
So it is now an inside drop box and not an outside drop box?
“ Diny has defended his decision to remove the drop box and place it inside city hall”
Y’all going to have to monitor these boxes and catch the cheaters… At risk of being prosecuted by the corrupt officials … Ick !
All I ever knew about Wausau.
It’s more than a bit dated but I still remember the ad.
https://youtu.be/OyM-HsatIsY?si=aNVXxMADjI9aEkRL
protect the steal
the cops are the criminals
Don’t take the drop boxes. Dump some alcohol/lighter fluid and a match.
Ashes are not ballot nor evidence.
That’s what they’d do to us.
So, they can't just walk a few feet into City Hall to drop off their ballot?
Or is the Left afraid that the drop box is now monitored and it will be harder for them to load it full of fake ballots?
“The drop box was set to be secured and ready for use by Monday, September 23, which Mr. Diny has now prevented. Citizens prepared to use this drop box for voting are now deprived of their right to do so.”
My removing the money from the bank vault was legal because I planned to write a check and withdraw the money next week. You are depriving me of use of my money.
EC
The Conservative Mayor is a political imbecile.
The last eight years have taught us that USA law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, and juries, are politically corrupt - and, proud of it!
If you are a Republican or a Conservative, your reputation will be destroyed, you will be bankrupted by legal fees, and you might go to jail, for any action that even resembles a criminal offense.
If you are a Democrat or a Marxist who is 100% loyal to your party, nothing will happen to you, if the crime is politically related.
If your crime is not political, the punishment will be a small fraction of what a Republican or Conservative will receive.
........bang bang........
And the election-rigging continues in banana-republic america...
All you need to know about this pos AG.
“Democrat Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul...”
They’ve been out to get Diny for a while, now. Looks like they may succeed! It’s getting to be against the law to be a Republican in this state...which is weird because beyond Senator Ron Johnson and a few other notables, even the ‘republicans’ vote Socialist Democrat when the can. Usually, ‘in secret.’
FWIW, Josh ‘Kaul’ is the SON OF Peg ‘The Keg’ Lautenschlager who was once our retard of an AG, too.
She was caught driving around drunk in a state owned vehicle and that was the end of her career. Major alcoholic - which seems to be the way of most Socialist Democrats.
‘Josh’ wants nothing to associate him with his mother as he runs his own little ‘Nazi Department of Just Us’ in Wisconsin. (He uses another family name.)
*SPIT*
NOTHING TO SEE HERE.DOJ COLLECTING THE EVIDENCE THE MAYOR COLLECTED IS ALL.
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