A dismissive Vos declares in-person voting 'safe.' Says poll work beats boring TV.

5:00 p.m. update: The GOP-Legislature adjourned within seconds Saturday afternoon without any consideration of Evers' plan to make the election an absentee-voting only event. We're either going to see a last-ditch effort by Evers to move the 4/7 date of the election because the public health risks, or in-person voting will continue at the polls April 7th despite the obvious risks to voters and poll worker safety. Stay tuned. 
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When the sad and costly and painful history of the Covid-19 pandemic in Wisconsin is written, let's hope that no other public official had laid claim to entire wing in the State's Hall of Hatred and Shame by using his stature, media access, and taxpayer-provided safe haven - - along with all the powers which attach to the position of Speaker of the Assembly - - to dismiss the legitimate fears of residents and officials in Milwaukee - - the city with the largest number of low-income and minority residents statewide that is also contending with the most brutal Covid-19 outbreak in the state.

* The ultra-partisan Robin Vos, (R-Rochester), had initiated a line of ignorant, 


uninformed and insulting callousness this week by declaring in-person polling places "safe" - - without offering any evidence - - because there is none - - which is why people have been repeatedly urged, even begged for weeks, to shelter at home by responsible officials and disease transmission experts because that is the only way slow the spread of this unprecedented pandemic.

Which, current data show, has created more positive Covid-19 diagnoses and deaths in the city and county of Milwaukee than anywhere else in the state.

And, yet, Vos went even further, having tweeting that it would be entertaining to put one's self into an objectively risky polling place next Tuesday, because, hey, it beats watching TV - - as if that's what scores of thousands of stay-at-home-work-at-home-caregive-at-home-home-school-the-kids-at-home-as-their jobs-and-savings-disappear-at-home Milwaukee adults are doing:

Earlier this week, Vos declared the polls safe and said he planned to work at one. “If you’re bored at home and you’re sick of watching Netflix, volunteer to go and help at the polls," he quipped.

And why is it that Wisconsin Republicans always have at the ready for others an inflammatory, resentment-triggering insult about moral foundation and principled drive which the GOP manipulatively promotes as its own special province:

In the final month and a half of the [2014] campaign, Gov. Scott Walker is making a blunt promise to voters — that he'll ensure jobless workers aren't on drugs, or their recliners. 

"My belief is we shouldn't be paying for them to sit on the couch, watching TV or playing Xbox," Walker told cheering Republican campaign volunteers last week in West Bend. 

* On Saturday, Vos extended his dismissiveness to the safety of Milwaukee election officials by tweeting on Saturday that their health concerns were fabricated:

Robin Vos

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Milwaukee could easily use city staff to open polling places like many other municipalities are doing in addition to their poll workers. Gov Evers has also offered the National Guard. It appears they want problems instead of an actual solution.