Letter to Dan O'Donnell

We have good reasons to dislike Robin Vos

Dear Dan O’Donnell,

Several weeks ago, on your program you did a segment on the Adam Steen campaign, and a few thousand dollars that he received from a county party while you ignored the million dollars Vos raised. We found 13 lobbyists listed as donors on just the first two pages of his campaign report. See the report here https://cfis.wi.gov/.../0104283SeptemberReport20221ec5a92... See my Facebook post here https://www.facebook.com/bill.savage.982/posts/pfbid0MFgcA5oau6HhcpDixjwcWRH4PFqfSS8gYA2iDa9SAGMtJdX3wQ79PnpgGBZfL1S6l

In your rush to rub Adam Steen’s campaign into the mud you had even found yourself retracting statements you made about the true patriot Adrianne Melby. Perhaps if you weren’t so busy regurgitating Robin Vos’s talking points and had done some actual reporting you wouldn’t have been so sloppy. But back to the reason for this letter. You stated that many of your listeners hate Robin Vos. You were correct. Unfortunately, you went on to say that many conservatives have soured on Vos because and I paraphrase, that’s what conservatives do. Like Bush and the absolute despot Paul Ryan, we just willy-nilly decided that we don’t support Vos for basically no reason whatsoever. I was quite astonished that you would blurt out such nonsense. The conservative voter is an informed voter, and you should show a bit more respect. It is clear that WISN has become the mouthpiece for Vos and the rest of the establishment. You’re not quite as bad as Weber and we thank you for that. I would imagine that the $150,000 or more that the Vos campaign spent on WISN ads as you all were desperately trying to drag him across the finish line along with other ad money thrown WISN’s way goes a long way to “impress” the hosts. That’s ok, your in the business to make money, we understand that and it’s all good. But let me share with you just a few reasons why we have soured on Robin Vos.

1. Vos took away Andre Jacques committee for holding a hearing on “prevailing Wage” and then took credit for prevailing wage. Note: Prevailing wage then passed unanimously by the assembly.

2. Vos then supported Jacque’s competition for an open senate seat, a 20-year-old carpetbagger. Also got Kitchens, Steineke, Macco, and Stephens to do the same.

3. Vos wouldn’t allow the bill to prevent Planned Parenthood from selling parts of aborted babies to UW to go forward. Dan O'Donnell must not have seen the video from Planned Parenthood showing abortion “doctors” how to abort babies while keeping vital organs intact so UW would pay more. We all know Vos got money from both UW and Planned Parenthood to kill the bill.

4. Vos lied about why he fired Tim Ramthun’s staff. In a letter from leadership, it was said that Ramthun’s staff lied about Vos’s connection with Clinton lawyer Marc Alias. When people like me and others (including your colleague, Mark Belling) pointed out that Ramthun did not lie, Vos went on Jay weber’s show and changed his story. Vos told Weber that Ramthun’s staff was fired for promoting Ramthun’s resolution to decertify the election. Imagine a staffer being fired for promoting his boss’s positions!

5. Vos lied about Trump’s support. Robin Vos circulated a picture of himself and Trump during the primary campaign against Steen. All the while knowing that Trump despises him.

6. Vos has directed his county party to not allow conservatives to join the party. Do you call that leadership?

7. Vos has removed the staff and committee chair assignments for Brandtjen, Allen, Wichgers and Behnke for simply not being Vos sycophants. Allen, Brandtjen and Wichgers represent some of the reddest areas of the state and have been limited in their ability to promote the Republican (and more importantly, the CONSERVATIVE message) in those red areas. Again, even a WISN host under strict “protect Vos” orders cannot justify such behavior as “leadership” can you?

8. Robin Vos spent a million dollars of taxpayer money to hire Justice Gableman for no other purpose than to thwart Brandtjen’s investigation into the 2020 election. An investigation that Vos himself ordered and was conducted by a committee chair (Brandtjen) that HE appointed. As soon as Gableman reached the same conclusion that Brandtjen did (the 2020 election was flawed to the point that we cannot have confidence in the result of the election) Vos turned on him and fired him. Vos called a LARGE PORTION of the republican party “conspiracy theorists” on the Jay Weber show. Again, I ask if you think THAT is leadership.

9. Robin Vos went on Jay Weber’s show the day after Vos “won” his race against the unknown, underfunded Steen by 260 votes. Most of us strongly suspect foul play since the votes ‘seemed” to appear around midnight, and Robin Vos seems to be beholden to Meagan Wolfe. Robin Vos has given lip service to “wanting Wolfe gone” but has not used any of the tools provided to him to remove her, including CH 15.61 - see an interesting article from The MacIver Institute asking why the legislature hasn’t moved https://www.maciverinstitute.com/.../wisconsin-law.../ you’ll recognize it pretty quick, after all, you wrote it.

10. Robin Vos continues to break the law. He refuses to provide the people of Wisconsin with open and transparent government.

11. Robin Vos refused to support all inquiries into the 2020 election. He even went as far as to side with Meagan Wolfe against his own committee chair when Rep. Brandtjen asked WEC for documents that could only be considered a reasonable request by a legislative oversight committee chair.

12. Not only did Vos not support Brandtjen’s request for information WEC, WEC had the nerve to SUE her for requesting the information! But WAIT!!! THERE’S MORE! Although Vos spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on HIS OWN defense, he denied any legal assistance to the chair of the committee that HE assigned the task of investigating the election. Vos VOTED for AR-15 that clearly DIRECTED Brandtjen’s committee to investigate the election. Now, let me say this here and now. YOU CANNOT POSSIBLY CONSIDER THAT LEADERSHIP!!! Election integrity remains the number one issue with republican voters and YOUR LEADER has done NOTHING but call those voters conspiracy theorists. I’d like to hear your justification for that.

13. Robin Vos spent, at the very least, a half of million dollars of RACC money on his reelection campaign. He had lobbyists donating to his campaign and knocking on doors for him. He even strong-armed representatives to knock on the doors for him during his primary race. Sortwell, Callahan, Murphy and others all went down and knocked on doors but literally hid from cameras while doing so. Let me ask you this Mr. O’Donnell, have you ever campaigned for someone but was ashamed to admit it? Let me answer that for you. NO, YOU DID NOT. None of us would ever do that. We put pictures of ourselves with the candidate’s literature on social media, hoping EVERYONE sees it! But these legislators hid. What say you, Mr. O’Donnell?

14. The budget has exploded under Vos. The budget grew 51% since Vos has been in leadership. We could go on forever with this, but you get the drift…. You DO get the drift, don’t you Dan?

Best regards,

Bill Savage

Savagespeaks.substack.com