Daily Bread for 6.27.21

Good morning.

Sunday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with high of 78. Sunrise is 5:18 AM and sunset 8:37 PM, for 15h 18m 36s of daytime.  The moon is a waning gibbous with 89.4% of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1994, members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan. Seven people are killed, 660 injured.

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Molly Beck reports Wisconsin GOP leaders say Trump is ‘misinformed’ after the former president claimed they are hiding election corruption:

Trump issued a statement seeking to turn the GOP faithful against Vos and the Legislature’s Republican leaders by accusing them of covering up election corruption because the review was not broad enough in the former president’s view.

“Wisconsin Republican leaders Robin Vos, Chris Kapenga, and Devin LeMahieu, are working hard to cover up election corruption, in Wisconsin,” Trump said in a statement Friday evening.

“Don’t fall for their lies! These REPUBLICAN ‘leaders’ need to step up and support the people who elected them by providing them a full forensic investigation. If they don’t, I have little doubt that they will be primaried and quickly run out of office.”

Shawn Johnson reports Following Warning By Trump, Vos Announces Former Justice Will Lead Assembly GOP Election Probe:

A day after being attacked by former President Donald Trump, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos told Wisconsin Republicans at their annual convention that former conservative state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman would oversee an investigation of the 2020 election.

Gableman, Vos said, would oversee three retired police officers who were hired by the Wisconsin Assembly. Vos said the group is “looking into the shenanigans” that happened in the 2020 election, which Trump has repeatedly falsely claimed that he won.

“We wanted to make sure that you were the first people to know,” Vos told GOP activists. “Because you are the ones who have done everything possible to make sure that our conservative candidates win for the Legislature, from the county clerk all the way up to the presidency.”

Gableman served a single 10-year term on the Wisconsin Supreme Court before stepping down in 2018. While he promised that his work on the election probe would not be partisan, Gableman’s Republican ties run deep, and GOP activists greeted him warmly Saturday.

“I’m glad to be here — glad to see so many friends,” Gableman said. “When I fought evil every day at the state Supreme Court for 10 years, I fought for you.”

Gableman, who attended a Nov. 7, 2020 rally supporting Trump, said he knew a lot of people at the convention were disappointed with how the presidential election was run.

“And you didn’t just grumble about it and go back home and let it let bygones be bygones,” Gableman said. “You recognize that this one is where we draw the line.”

Democrats said the announcement of Gableman’s hiring at the state GOP convention underscored the true partisan intent of Vos’ investigation.

“Gabelman says the big problem is people not trusting the election,” tweeted Wisconsin Democratic Party chair Ben Wikler. “Vos & Gabelman are part of Operation Destroy Trust.”

John Torinus pens a correction in State’s Research & Development Funding Surges: 

I reported that research and development dollars had fallen off at our state’s research powerhouse, the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Happily, just the opposite has occurred. A university spokesperson e-mailed me to say, “Research dollars have increased year over year in each of the last three fiscal years, and only twice in the last ten fiscal years (FY13 and FY17) have we brought in less research funding than we did the prior fiscal year.”

Our flagship university has bounced around the $1 billion mark in R&D for a long time. It did $1.1 billion in 2017 and increased that total to $1.48 billion.

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