"Without getting into specifics, the recompense is coming," a Republican state lawmaker said this week about Assembly Speaker Robin Vos' decision to discipline him by removing a staffer from his office. jsonline.com/story/news/pol…
$20K was raised for the staffer, who has since resigned from the Legislature to work for Rep. Timothy Ramthun of Campbellsport without a salary.
"I hear stuff like, 'you know, the speaker plays chess while everyone else is playing checkers.' Well, (if so) ... you would not have done what you did last Wednesday by taking my staff away because you poked the hornet's nest in this entire state and beyond," Ramthun said.
The Iowa County Republican Party issued a statement on the discipline, saying Vos is now "politically toxic, creating a liability to the entire Republican ticket."
The party asks Vos "to immediately re-instate staff that has been removed from Representative Ramthun in his act of political retaliation and to issue an immediate apology."
And party asks Vos to step down as speaker "as he has, in effect, guaranteed that any number of incumbent Republican assemblymen will lose their seat."
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