Yesterday, Trump’s PAC endorsed Wisconsin Gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels. Like candidate Michels, the Thursday evening release was unremarkable and met with little fanfare.
I’ve been told that behind the scenes, high-level donors, former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, former Trump Chief of Staff Reince Preibus and other Wisconsin insiders were instrumental in encouraging and brokering the endorsement.
Curious.
Former Gov. Thompson and Preibus are hardly the anti-establishment outsiders that Michels’ handlers have carefully crafted him to be in his commercials and during his unenthusiastic stump speeches.
I receive many requests from various statewide candidates to appear on my program. Of all the candidates, Michels is the only one who has an out-of state staffer (with a Washington, DC area code) contact me to schedule appearances.
Who is the real Tim Michels?
It’s already been established that Michels only lives in Wisconsin part-time – he admitted as much when interviewed on Milwaukee radio last month and acknowledged that he’s “always lived in Wisconsin 183 days,” spending just enough time in Wisconsin to qualify as a resident for tax purposes, except for 2015, when he paid taxes in New York. Unlike Wisconsin citizens who choose to live here, raise our families and enroll our children in Wisconsin schools, Michels and his wife raised their children on the east coast, and their children attended and graduated from schools in Connecticut and New York.
Less than a month ago, the Republican faithful assembled at the state convention in Wisconsin and less than 4% of the delegates backed Michels for governor, while almost 60% said they preferred former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch. I was in attendance at the state convention and like the other 1,600+ attendees, I consider myself to be among the most engaged, informed and dedicated grassroots Republicans in the party. But we were told not to endorse a candidate?
The message that Trump’s endorsement sends the Wisconsin Grassroots is hypocritical – that we cannot be trusted to endorse a gubernatorial candidate, but instead, we should take our marching orders from former President Donald Trump, who doesn’t live in Wisconsin and also happens to be a part-time resident of more than one state.
Fellow conservatives – use your God-given critical thinking skills to see this for what it is – an attempt by the Wisconsin insider’s cabal to manipulate Trump supporters into choosing their handpicked candidate.
But why the uninteresting Michels?
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