A Macomb County lawmaker, who embraced the conspiracy theories that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election, announced today that he is running for a vacant state Senate seat created by Pete Lucido, who was elected as the new Macomb County prosecutor in November.
State Rep. Doug Wozniak, a Shelby Township Republican, said in a press release that he is a small business owner and attorney who “already understands the law and its processes to the residents throughout Macomb County.”
A former Shelby Township board member, Wozniak was one of 15 of the 80 GOP legislators in Lansing who endorsed a legal brief in December supporting Trump’s “Hail Mary” attempt to upend an election the former president said was “rigged,” despite lower courts repeatedly rejecting his claims of voter fraud.
Eventually, more than 60 judges ruled against various pro-Trump claims, including numerous Republican judges and some Trump appointees.
First elected to the state House in 2018, Wozniak has not distinguished himself during his 25 months in office, other than his embrace of the counterfeit claims of Trump winning the election – a conspiracy theory promoted by fringe right-wing groups who engaged in the Jan. 6 violent rampage of the U.S. Capitol.
The lawsuit, originating in Texas, that Wozniak endorsed called for a rejection of Electoral College votes from Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Georgia – four key states that Biden won – due to allegations of “rampant lawlessness.”
That suit was tossed out. When the bipartisan Michigan Board of Canvassers certified the state’s election, Biden won Michigan by 154,188 votes.
Among those GOP lawmakers who declined to sign a letter claiming Trump was the victim of election rigging were then-House Speaker Lee Chatfield, R-Levering, and Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, R-Clarklake, even though they rendered nationwide suspicion when they traveled to Washington to discuss the election outcome with Trump at the White House last month.
The special election scheduled for Nov. 2, 2021, will take place in the state Senate’s 8th District, which comprises most of north Macomb and communities located on the Lake St. Clair shoreline.
The district (previously known as the 12th Senate district) has quite an infamous history. In 2001, it was represented by Dave Jaye, another Shelby Township Republican, who became the first senator in Michigan history to be expelled from office by his colleagues (in a near-unanimous vote) after he engaged in lawbreaking behavior, including allegedly assaulting his girlfriend.
Lucido, yet another Shelby Township Republican, who represented the district for six years was accused last year of sexually harassing three women in the state Capitol.
Known as a bombastic and belligerent lawmaker by his critics in the Capitol, the Senate GOP leadership found Lucido guilty of “inappropriate workplace behavior” and he was removed as chairman of a powerful Senate committee.
Anyone who believes that Biden won the election is an idiot. We have been given a dictator appointed by a select few to further their agenda.
GREG STONE, YOU ARE RIGHT ON THE MARK!
Biden won in a free and fair election. To believe otherwise would be to accept a conspiracy of thousands of bipartisan precinct election inspectors, city and township clerks (nonpartisan, Republican and Democratic elected and appointed), 83 County Clerks (from both parties) 83 bipartisan Boards of Canvassers and the Secretary of State in Michigan and similar numbers of bipartisan election workers in the rest of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, all affirmed by more than 80 state and federal judges (elected or appointed, some by Trump himself), the FBI, and the Justice Department. No sane person can believe in such a vast conspiracy. Further, if the presidential election was “rigged” then the rest of the elections are in dispute including the one won by the representative noted and the vacancy created by the election of the prosecuting attorney. You have a right to be unhappy with the results but this election was vetted more than any election in history. Accept it.
fair election implies that state congress was involved in making the changes to allow the mail in voting, they were not and it was mostly established by state executive branch members.
no signature verification, nothing to prevent ballot harvesting. many things proclaimed in the 2000’s that can and have led to voting fraud were not addressed at all. nor were election watchers allowed to watch the tabulation process.
people who spoke out about the weird going ons that happened that night were doxxed and sent death threats. the supreme court shot down any case that was brought forth that would have exposed any potential fraud. that violates the first amendment as we have the right to petition and redress our grievances with the government, the supreme court refused to even hear anything about it. and yet people say the supreme court said “no evidence” just because they tossed out a case they didnt want to deal with.
additionally Dominion voting systems has a system that is intentionally hard to audit without proper tabulations
Truth!! No way in hell Biden won this nor did the chain of events on election night even make sense. You’d have to be a supreme idiot to believe Biden won fair & square. God watch over America!
Simple Biden lost
Why is this “author”, Selewski, allowed to promote hate speech and distribute miss-information about the election and still keep his job! And why hasn’t he been banned from Facebook and Twitter?
Why is this blog covering things like this instead of important things like the space beams causing forest fires and the human skin covered lizard people in Congress . It must be because those Trump appointed judges threw out the evidence free lawsuits.Those judges must be antifascist deep state lizard people too. Any blogger who believes in a fair and honest election should have his 1st amendment rights taken away.
obvious troll comment
Shelby Township is home to two Superfund toxic waste dumps along with other poisonous industrial sites. Just like lead in the water, all those toxic chemicals in the local environment has affected the reasoning abilities of the Shelby Township voters who elect and support creatures like Wozniak, Dave Jaye, Pete Lucido, Lisa McClain, etc.