Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez, who recently admitted that she “misspoke” on immigration, has now told a brazen lie about Waukesha County, then skipped the state of the state address.
Bizarrely, Rodriguez was announced at Gov. Tony Evers’ state of the state, but she wasn’t there. Evers, who hasn’t endorsed his own number two, also didn’t give her any credit during his speech, leaving her out. It’s no secret around the Capitol that he’s not a fan of Rodriguez; he has thrown her under the bus several times publicly, including deviating from her radical pro-illegal immigrant plan, which would endanger officers’ lives.
Instead, on February 18, she was on social media lying about Waukesha County. “I’m a nurse who flipped Waukesha County, Wisconsin, and won statewide,” she wrote.
Actually, no, she didn’t. Not by a longshot.
The Evers and Rodriguez ticket lost Waukesha County to Republican businessman Tim Michels by a LOT. How much? They lost more than 45,000 votes.
Sara Rodriguez Did NOT ‘Flip Waukesha County, Wisconsin.’ That’s a Brazen Lie
Is she ready for prime time? That’s what some people in the Capitol are asking after a series of verbal missteps and, now, an outright lie.
This comes after Rodriguez wrote that she “misspoke” when she initially adopted a reasonable stance in a television video interview and said she supports jails honoring ICE detainers of criminals. After several Democrat opponents sharply criticized her, she wrote that she “misspoke” and took it back.
She later said she actually doesn’t want jails to honor administrative warrants to keep illegal immigrant criminals detained; that means, she wants to make it significantly harder to detain the criminals. In Dane County, using a similar argument as Rodriguez, the sheriff refused to honor ICE detainers for extremely serious felonies, including an attempted homicide; a child rape case; a carjacking; violence against women, including strangulation; stalking; and repeat drunk drivers, including one facing a 6th offense.
The underlying video posted with Rodriguez’s first status makes a different claim than the factually inaccurate statement in the status.
The video she attached says she flipped a red Assembly district blue, but that’s not what her status says. It says she flipped Waukesha County and won statewide.
As for the Assembly District in question, it included parts of Milwaukee County and the eastern suburbs of Waukesha County, which everyone knows have trended more blue for years. And it was very close. She only served one two-year term and had no significant accomplishments. Her own LinkedIn page says she served (briefly) as “Wisconsin State Representative for Assembly District 13 which includes Brookfield, Elm Grove, Wauwatosa, West Allis, and Milwaukee.”
This idea she’s painting that she somehow is appealing to conservatives or in Waukesha County as a whole simply isn’t true. But she “flipped Waukesha County”? That’s an actual lie.
Rodriguez also wrote, “People said Waukesha County was unwinnable as a Democrat. And I live in the most conservative part of the district.”
Public records show she lives in the City of Waukesha, which isn’t even the most conservative part of Waukesha County. It’s unclear which district she’s referring to, but if it’s the Assembly district, she lived in Brookfield at the time (she’s also lived in Oklahoma, Baltimore, and Colorado in the past, according to LinkedIn). But her status, which she posted to X, uses the present tense “live.” Perhaps she misspoke again because we’re not clear what exactly she’s trying to say there, either.
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