GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) — The Republican Party of Brown County is looking to the future after a chaotic week.
The Republican Party is getting ready for what the sports world might call a “rebuilding year” after losing the senate earlier this week to finally put the 2020 electoral cycle to bed. Now they’re looking ahead both nationally and locally.
“The Republican Party is going to go back to its grass roots. Its conservative values,” said Republican Party of Brown County Chairman Jim Fitzgerald. “We’re also going to concentrate on our local elections.”
The first thing on the agenda for Republicans is pushing for election reform.
“We’re going to work on a package of reforms we can bring about for the election process,” Fitzgerald told WTAQ. “That’s something we heard loud and clear during this election.”
While that’s unlikely to happen on the national level, election reform could be possible in Wisconsin where Republicans control the state assembly, although any bill would have to survive a possible veto from Democratic Governor Tony Evers.
Fitzgerald also condemned the storming of the US Capitol building on Wednesday following the “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington DC.
“We do not condone the violence we saw,” Fitzgerald said. “It remains to be seen who was responsible for that violence. It think it’s a jump to say that these were all Trump supporters.”
Some Republicans have theorized that outside instigators, such as Antifa, may have been involved, but no definitive proof of outside instigation has been shown.
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