Wisconsin GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos claims a "huge number" of signature forgeries contributed to an effort to recall him from office — calling the organizers of the recall effort "whack jobs and morons" in comments he made this Tuesday.
Vos said private investigators he's hired looked through pages of petition documents submitted by a group of Trump supporters who are looking to oust him and found the forgeries. At issue is his refusal to overturn the state's 2020 election results.
"In Wisconsin, if you're a felon, you're not allowed to circulate. Well, they brought in people from out of state who are felons!" Vos told reporters, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Organizers of the recall effort handed over more than 10,000 signatures to the Wisconsin Elections Commission — which determined that organizers were about 945 signatures short since they did not solicit residents in the district Vos was elected in when the recall began.
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According to Vos, those seeking to recall him are "so out of touch with reality."
“The people who did this? Whack jobs and morons,” he said.
Recall organizers admitted there were forgeries, but blamed it on "sabotage" and unidentified participants "recruiting individuals from outside Wisconsin."
"While the orchestrator remains unidentified, we are dedicated to uncovering the truth in collaboration with law enforcement," the group said in the statement.
Vos said he will show that up to 400 votes are duplicates, along with "a ton of fraud," before the Thursday deadline for challenging them.
"The challenge that we have is the people who organized this are so out of touch with reality," Vos said. "And I'm just going to keep saying it over and over again — they are morons. They are stupid."
