GOP lawmaker to pack heat because Wisconsin election audit is ‘jazzing up’ dangerous people

Intimidation of election officials by supporters of Donald Trump believing his "Big Lie" of election fraud was illustrated on Monday in Wisconsin.

Republican state Sen. Kathleen Bernier, who chairs Wisconsin's Senate Elections Committee, suggested she would be armed to protect herself during an upcoming hearing with former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gablemn, who is conducting widely-panned partisan investigation into the 2020 election.

"GOP state Sen. Kathy Bernier says Gableman is 'jazzing up' people who don't know what they're talking about regarding elections," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel correspondent Patrick Marley reported.

"Mr. Gableman is coming to my county and I will attend that meeting along with my concealed carry permit, to be honest," Bernier said.

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Bernier was speaking alongside former Obama White House counsel Bob Bauer and longtime GOP lawyer Ben Ginsberg. The two are the co-chairs of the new Election Official Legal Defense Network.

On Friday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published an op-ed by the two under the headline, "Intimidation of election officials in Wisconsin has to stop. It is corrosive to our democracy."

"The recent pattern of attempted intimidation of state and local election officials, combined with attempts to inject partisan influence over the casting and counting of votes, has thrust Wisconsin into the harsh spotlight of a destructive nationwide trend which, if successful, will corrode public faith in our election process," they warned.

Here is Marley's full thread: