{"id":22813,"date":"2022-06-22T12:44:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T19:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=22813"},"modified":"2022-06-22T12:44:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T19:44:05","slug":"he-must-resign-staff-texts-over-fake-elector-slates-implicate-ron-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2022\/06\/22\/he-must-resign-staff-texts-over-fake-elector-slates-implicate-ron-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"‘He Must Resign’: Staff Texts Over Fake Elector Slates Implicate Ron Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) speaks during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on February 10, 2021. (Photo: Anna Moneymaker\/Pool\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Trump and his MAGA allies planned, promoted, and paid for a seditious conspiracy to overturn an election they lost,” said one Democratic Senate candidate. “And Ron Johnson attempted to deliver it to D.C. on a silver platter.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BRETT WILKINS<\/a> June 21, 2022 (CommonDreams.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wisconsin Democrats on Tuesday<\/strong> led calls for U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson’s resignation after the House January 6 committee revealed texts indicating that the Republican’s office wanted to hand-deliver certificates of fake electors to then-Vice President Mike Pence in service of former President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Ron Johnson actively tried to undermine this democracy. He literally tried to hand Mike Pence fake ballots.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bipartisan congressional panel probing the deadly 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol showed an exchange of text messages initiated by Johnson’s chief of staff Sean Riley to Pence legislative director Chris Hodgson that the Republican senator wanted to advance an “alternate slate of electors” for Wisconsin and Michigan, both of which Biden won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Do not give that to him,” Hodgson texted back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response to the presentation during Tuesday’s hearing state Rep. Francesca Hong (D-76) tweeted<\/a> that “Sen. Ron Johnson should resign, effective immediately.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Johnson is not among the 147 congressional Republicans who voted to overturn President Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory, he did host a December 2020 hearing at which supporters of Trump’s “Big Lie” that the election was “stolen” spent hours promoting conspiracy theories about the contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n