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Wisconsin Republican Mayor Faces Aftermath Of ‘Very Political’ Raid Over Ballot Drop Box
The Federalist ^ | October 25, 2024 | M.D. Kittle

Posted on 10/25/2024 7:18:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Wausau Mayor Doug Diny had just finished a city directors meeting when he walked into his office to find three law enforcement agents rooting through his possessions. Suffice to say, the mayor was “surprised.”

But Diny said he knew what this raid was all about. As The Federalist first reported a week ago, Democrat Attorney General Josh Kaul has ratcheted up his nationally watched investigation into the mayor for removing an unsecured absentee ballot drop box from outside city hall. For Diny, it all feels “very political,” an investigation and a raid the Wall Street Journal editorial board has described as “out of proportion to Mr. Diny’s action.”

Diny told the lead state Department of Justice investigator, special agent Mary Van Schoyck, that if the raid squad wanted to talk to him they should first contact his attorney. She showed him a search warrant, signed off by an Eau Claire County judge, and told him to sit down and read it.

“The whole time they were badgering me to turn my phone over,” Diny told me in a phone interview from his office Thursday evening. He did as he was told, he said but realized he then had no way to call his attorney. The contact was, of course, in his cellphone.

“She [Van Schoyck] said, ‘Who is your attorney? I’ll Google it for you,’ Diny said. “That part pissed me off. I said, ‘You’re the lead investigator and the right-hand man for Josh Kaul, you don’t know who my attorney is?”

The mayor was more concerned about his wife. Simultaneously, at 3:15 p.m. on Oct. 16, five agents dressed in black were raiding the Diny home, a few blocks from city hall. Jean Diny...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arrestjoshkaul; bias; civilwar; donutwatch; dougdiny; enemyag; harassment; joshkaul; persecution; retaliation; wisconsin
Similar to Tina Peters being sentenced to 9 years in prison for backing up an election machine log file before Democrat election officials could illegally delete it.
1 posted on 10/25/2024 7:18:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wisconsin leftist have been using lawfare for a long time.

In the Scott Walker era they tried to make normal political activities done by Republicans or conservatives illegal.


2 posted on 10/25/2024 7:22:46 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

It worked against President Trump.


3 posted on 10/25/2024 7:49:16 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: ifinnegan

No longer America.


4 posted on 10/25/2024 10:26:35 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (More important than why there was nobody protecting the AGR roof, how did Crooks know that?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Stand by for the second illegally elected President in US history.


5 posted on 10/26/2024 6:52:45 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Democrat Attorney General Josh Kaul has ratcheted up his nationally watched investigation into the mayor for removing an unsecured absentee ballot drop box from outside city hall.
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Well comrades the Bolsheviks are in their final move to remove voting.


6 posted on 10/26/2024 7:00:38 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: ifinnegan

Has the illegal, unsecured ballot box been removed, secured, or allowed to remain illegally unsecured? Inquiring minds want to know.

EC


7 posted on 10/26/2024 8:50:29 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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