One among Wisconsin’s “pretend electors” has been working as a paid staffer for Sen. Ron Johnson’s re-election marketing campaign.
Alexa Henning, a spokeswoman for Johnson, R-Wis., confirmed to NBC Information the marketing campaign’s employment of Pam Travis, certainly one of 10 Wisconsin Republicans who signed bogus paperwork claiming to be an elector backing then-President Donald Trump in an alleged plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Travis’ LinkedIn web page signifies she’s labored for Johnson since March, and Federal Election Fee monetary stories present the marketing campaign has paid her simply over $10,200 since April, in addition to greater than $3,500 in reimbursements for mileage prices between Might and July.
Travis, an energetic member of the Wisconsin GOP, is serving because the vice chair of the seventh Congressional District.
“She is a grassroots staffer answering telephones,” Henning stated in a textual content message. “That is being blown method out of proportion.”
The information was first reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Johnson recently distanced himself from the elector scheme amid scrutiny over his reference to the plot. The Home committee investigating Jan. 6 revealed to the general public this 12 months {that a} prime aide to Johnson had contacted an aide to then-Vice President Mike Pence about delivering paperwork from alternate electors from Wisconsin and Michigan. The Pence aide shut down the request.
“My involvement in that try to ship spanned the course of a pair seconds,” Johnson advised WISN Information, a Wisconsin tv station, this month.
Tom Nelson, a Democratic Outagamie County government who had run within the GOP Senate main in Wisconsin earlier than dropping out and backing Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, took situation with the Johnson marketing campaign downplaying Travis’ employment.
“They need to be in jail,” Nelson stated of the 2020 false electors, referring to the position they performed in attempting to overturn the election.
“As a substitute, they’re on Ron Johnson’s payroll.”
