Wisconsin Election Board Member In Hot Water Again

Early last year, the news broke that Robert Spindell, who is a Republican member of the Wisconsin Election Commission, a fake elector from the 2020 election and an officer of the Republican Party, was bragging to his party members that due to their strategies of voter oppression and voter intimidation, they were able to keep 37,000 Black and Latino voters from voting. Due to this obvious conflict of interest, there was a large demand that Spindell either resign or be fired from the election commission.

Now fast forward to Thursday, when the matter was brought up again during a meeting of the elections commission. Not only Spindell again blow off the calls for his resignation, but he also went to astounding levels of gall when he came up with this doozy:

In response to the comments made during a Wisconsin Elections Commission meeting, Commissioner Bob Spindell said there was "no white Republican that has done more for the Black community than me."

How very Trumpian of him. And during Black History Month none the less.

Oh, and while I'm on the subject, can I mention Abraham Lincoln as a white Republican that has done more for the Black people than Spindell.

On a bright side, community leaders are not afraid to swing back at his nonsense:

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