WI SCOTUS candidate Daniel Kelly was paid $120,000 by Republicans to advise on fake electors

[Nevilledog]

https://archive.is/bgrhZ

Former state Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly — who has been critical of his opponents for their partisanship — has been paid nearly $120,000 by the state Republican Party and the Republican National Committee over the past two years for his work on election issues.

In that role, Kelly was at the center of the discussion in December 2020 with top Wisconsin Republicans over their highly controversial plan to covertly convene a group of Republicans inside the state Capitol in the weeks following Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden to sign paperwork falsely claiming to be electors.

Former state Republican Party Chairman Andrew Hitt said in a deposition last year to the U.S. House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol that he and Kelly had "pretty extensive conversations" about the fake elector scheme. Kelly was serving as the party's "special counsel" at the time.

The Republican scheme eventually failed, and the state's Democratic electors officially cast the state’s 10 electoral votes for Biden, who won Wisconsin by nearly 21,000 votes in 2020.
"I had brought him on in Wisconsin to kind of help with — he's from Wisconsin," Hitt said of Kelly in his testimony. "I brought him on to kind of advise on election law matters."

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[Faux pas]

1. The

rot runs deep and far.

[Sneederbunk]

2. Of 84 Fake Electors how many were charged by the states or Feds?

[riversedge]

6. I do not know of any.

[NewHendoLib]

3. How authoritarian. How fascist. How criminal.

[agingdem]

4. Is there anyone is this Republican Party who is not dirty?

and who is not tethered to Trump in some way?

[Freethinker65]

5. Totally impartial tho