GOP candidate calls for 'pitchforks and torches'
Wisconsin Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels speaks as he appears with former President Donald Trump at a rally in Waukesha, Wis., on Aug. 5, 2022.The Republican candidate for governor in Wisconsin endorsed by Donald Trump is calling for people to take up "pitchforks and torches" in reaction to a story that detailed his giving to anti-abortion groups, churches and others - rhetoric that Democrats say amounts to threatening violence.
Since the story's publication, Michels has gone after not just Evers and Democrats, but also the Journal Sentinel and, more broadly, all reporters. Hannah Menchhff, a Wisconsin Democratic Party spokesperson, accused Michels of threatening violence in an "extreme attempt to pander to Donald Trump and the MAGA base.""Only political hacks and media accomplices would freak out about Tim using a figure of speech to emphasize the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's ridiculous characterization of his donations to churches, nuns, and charitable causes as 'radical,'" she said.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel executive editor George Stanley defended the article, noting that the paper ran a piece on the same day about security costs for the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate that his Republican opponent was urging people to read. The Journal Sentinel published a story in March about that donation and the surgery that Michels' daughter had. That was one month before Michels announced his run for governor.
The Michels' foundation also donated $10,000 to Christ Fellowship in Miami. The Journal Sentinel's story noted that the church's pastor, Omar Giritli, in June called arguments for exception to abortions in cases of rape or incest "deceptive reasoning."
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