Wisconsin governor candidate Tim Michels, fired election reviewer Michael Gableman to headline GOP fundraiser
Corrinne HessWisconsin Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels will appear next month with former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, who oversaw a failed taxpayer-funded GOP review of the 2020 election.
The pair will be joined by lieutenant gove nominee Roger Roth at the Republican Party of Outagamie County Constitution Day Dinner on Sept. 9 at The Grand Meridian in Appleton.
Tickets are $50 per person, $90 per couple or $500 for a table of eight.
Michels' campaign did not immediately return requests for comment from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Friday afternoon.
The announcement comes the same week a Dane County Judge said Gableman "accomplished nothing" while costing state taxpayers more than $1 million.
Judge Frank Remington also ordered Gableman to pay the court $24,000 for 12 days he was found in contempt of the order, imposed June 15.
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Assembly Speaker Robin Vos fired Gableman on Aug. 12 — a week after former President Donald Trump announced Gableman had endorsed Vos' primary opponent, Adam Steen, during a rally in Waukesha.
Days after the endorsement, Vos narrowly won the primary by 260 votes.
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Trump also endorsed Michels.
Vos could not immediately be reached for comment.
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