<div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:black;">LCUUC is a supporter of SOPHIA, which is the Waukesha County branch of WISDOM.<br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: David Liners, State-Wide Director <davidliners@wisdomwisconsin.org><br>To: Gerald Flakas <gerflak@aol.com><br>Sent: Mon, Mar 21, 2022 1:47 pm<br>Subject: Gableman’s Taxpayer-Funded Smear Campaign is Wrong<br><br></div><div id="yiv8409630434">
<title></title>
<div><span style="display:none !important;visibility:hidden;font-size:1px;color:#ffffff;line-height:1px;max-height:0px;max-width:0px;overflow:hidden;">We must call out any effort to marginalize or demonize any of our fellow humans. </span>
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:600px;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/43217539/336224222/1511201757?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9BVi9BVldJVy8xLzg1ODYyIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjI5YTIwMTQxLTQ3YTktZWMxMS1hMjJhLTI4MTg3OGI4NTExMCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAiZ2VyZmxha0Bhb2wuY29tIg0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=Cwd7wu058j_xNrFzwD-L92K8SP0UC_4SrwrzRUWBxsk=&emci=e2c8a4bc-45a9-ec11-a22a-281878b85110&emdi=29a20141-47a9-ec11-a22a-281878b85110&ceid=17609" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img alt="" src="https://nvlupin.blob.core.windows.net/images/van/AV/AVWIW/1/85862/images/WISDOM%20Email%20Header.png" style="width:600px;min-height:130px;"></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:590px;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="line-height:106%;"><span style="color:black;">The WISDOM Network includes Wisconsinites from 19 different religious denominations, including Unitarians, Christians, Muslims, Jews and Buddhists. We have other members who are not part of specific religions, but who share our values. </span></span></span></span>
<p style="margin:0in;"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="line-height:106%;"><b><span style="color:black;">One of those values is respect for all people, with no exceptions. That means we must call out any effort to marginalize or demonize any of our fellow humans because of their race, religion, conviction history, sexual identity, or gender. </span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="line-height:106%;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="line-height:106%;"><span style="color:black;">Sometimes such attacks are blatant and overt, but many times they are done through implication, or through “dog whistles.” In that spirit, we must clearly condemn the recent “report” by Michael Gableman about the 2020 election in Wisconsin. The report is short on facts but long on anti-Semitic and racist innuendo.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="line-height:106%;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="line-height:106%;"><span style="color:black;"><strong>This report relies disturbingly on an anti-Semitic trope </strong>that casts Jewish people as a powerful enemy that secretly exerts control over our lives. This harmful and unfortunately common line of thinking implies that any use of money by Jewish people is somehow evil. The Gableman report manages to mention Mark Zuckerberg 45 times, even though there is no reason to believe he did anything wrong. For good measure, he manages to include mention of George Soros, who had no involvement in anything having to do with the reliability of the election’s results. <i>The objection that Gableman finds with Zuckerberg and Soros seems to be primarily with their Jewish identities.</i> Playing on tired clichés about Jews and money, Gableman’s taxpayer-funded “report” makes the outrageous claim that “Mark Zuckerberg bought the 2020 election for Biden with staggering funding”.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="line-height:106%;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="line-height:106%;"><b><span style="color:black;">The report also assumes that African American people are not supposed to vote at the rates that white people do, and if African American voter turnout increases there must be some nefarious influence.</span></b><span style="color:black;"> And, he ties these two prejudices together.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="line-height:106%;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="line-height:106%;"><span style="color:black;">We are truly shocked and dismayed at the anti-Semitic dog whistles that Michael Gableman exhibited in his testimony on March 1 before the Assembly Campaigns and Elections Committee hearing and in subsequent public appearances, even on national TV. We are outraged that this re-hash of stereotype, paranoia and bigotry was paid for with our tax dollars. <i>Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and other leaders of our state legislature need to accept their part of the responsibility for the unleashing of these dangerous attacks. </i></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="line-height:106%;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="line-height:106%;"><span style="color:black;">In these days of increasing anti-Semitism, any quarter given to this kind of rhetoric is deeply dangerous, even more when it is cloaked in the “respectability” of a former State Supreme Court justice and the Speaker of the State Assembly. </span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong><span style="line-height:106%;"><span style="color:black;">Anti-Semitism, like Islamophobia and anti-Black racism has real consequences: </span></span></strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="line-height:106%;"><span style="color:black;">Only two months ago, a terrorist entered a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas and took the rabbi and three congregants hostage for eleven hours, under the delusion that a Jewish leader would have the power to change US policy. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="line-height:106%;"><span style="color:black;">Closer to home, in the City of Kenosha there have been leaflets distributed widely that blame Jewish people for COVID-19. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="line-height:106%;"><span style="color:black;">Bias continues to fuel absurd incarceration rates for African-American people. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="line-height:106%;"><span style="color:black;">Anti-Muslim bias has made it hard for some of our local organizations to find rental housing for Afghan refugees.</span></span></span></span></li>
</ul>
<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="line-height:106%;"><span style="color:black;">To build the Beloved Community dreamed of by Dr. King, we must stand up against any effort to diminish any of our brothers and sisters. It is especially urgent that we let political leaders know that we will not stand idly by while they invoke hateful narratives in a cynical effort to gain political advantage.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in;"> </p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;min-height:50px;background-color:rgb(255, 222, 89);"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:16px;">Linking communities across Wisconsin to work for justice</span></span></strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;background-color:rgb(238, 238, 238);"><a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/43217540/336224223/-1226795451?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9BVi9BVldJVy8xLzg1ODYyIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjI5YTIwMTQxLTQ3YTktZWMxMS1hMjJhLTI4MTg3OGI4NTExMCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAiZ2VyZmxha0Bhb2wuY29tIg0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=Cwd7wu058j_xNrFzwD-L92K8SP0UC_4SrwrzRUWBxsk=&emci=e2c8a4bc-45a9-ec11-a22a-281878b85110&emdi=29a20141-47a9-ec11-a22a-281878b85110&ceid=17609" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img alt="" src="https://nvlupin.blob.core.windows.net/images/van/AV/AVWIW/1/85862/images/Social%20Icons/Facebook_icon_35x35.png" style="margin:10px;width:30px;min-height:30px;"></a><a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/43217541/336224224/-225032636?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9BVi9BVldJVy8xLzg1ODYyIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjI5YTIwMTQxLTQ3YTktZWMxMS1hMjJhLTI4MTg3OGI4NTExMCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAiZ2VyZmxha0Bhb2wuY29tIg0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=Cwd7wu058j_xNrFzwD-L92K8SP0UC_4SrwrzRUWBxsk=&emci=e2c8a4bc-45a9-ec11-a22a-281878b85110&emdi=29a20141-47a9-ec11-a22a-281878b85110&ceid=17609" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img alt="" src="https://nvlupin.blob.core.windows.net/images/van/AV/AVWIW/1/85862/images/Social%20Icons/Twitter_icon_35x35.png" style="margin:10px;width:30px;min-height:30px;"></a><a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/43217542/336224225/-1099360522?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9BVi9BVldJVy8xLzg1ODYyIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjI5YTIwMTQxLTQ3YTktZWMxMS1hMjJhLTI4MTg3OGI4NTExMCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAiZ2VyZmxha0Bhb2wuY29tIg0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=Cwd7wu058j_xNrFzwD-L92K8SP0UC_4SrwrzRUWBxsk=&emci=e2c8a4bc-45a9-ec11-a22a-281878b85110&emdi=29a20141-47a9-ec11-a22a-281878b85110&ceid=17609" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img alt="" src="https://nvlupin.blob.core.windows.net/images/van/AV/AVWIW/1/85862/images/DONATE%20button%20rounded_green_140X40%20%282%29.png" style="margin:10px;width:105px;min-height:30px;"></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Was this email forwarded to you? <a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/43217543/336224226/2121754073?contactdata=Fn/tVhIVW6mNp9w3O3L1Hi4pqEEWGv8p4NT7OQBbKYB50HFO76bpm7MpqtWc/4j1&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9BVi9BVldJVy8xLzg1ODYyIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjI5YTIwMTQxLTQ3YTktZWMxMS1hMjJhLTI4MTg3OGI4NTExMCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAiZ2VyZmxha0Bhb2wuY29tIg0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=Cwd7wu058j_xNrFzwD-L92K8SP0UC_4SrwrzRUWBxsk=&emci=e2c8a4bc-45a9-ec11-a22a-281878b85110&emdi=29a20141-47a9-ec11-a22a-281878b85110&ceid=17609" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sign up for WISDOM emails!</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2821 Vel R Phillips Ave #217<br>
Milwaukee WI 53212<br>
<a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/43217544/336224227/-390632470?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9BVi9BVldJVy8xLzg1ODYyIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjI5YTIwMTQxLTQ3YTktZWMxMS1hMjJhLTI4MTg3OGI4NTExMCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAiZ2VyZmxha0Bhb2wuY29tIg0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=Cwd7wu058j_xNrFzwD-L92K8SP0UC_4SrwrzRUWBxsk=&emci=e2c8a4bc-45a9-ec11-a22a-281878b85110&emdi=29a20141-47a9-ec11-a22a-281878b85110&ceid=17609" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">wisdomwisconsin.org</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <a href="https://email.everyaction.com/unsubscribeUnique/e2c8a4bc-45a9-ec11-a22a-281878b85110/29a20141-47a9-ec11-a22a-281878b85110?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9BVi9BVldJVy8xLzg1ODYyIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjI5YTIwMTQxLTQ3YTktZWMxMS1hMjJhLTI4MTg3OGI4NTExMCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAiZ2VyZmxha0Bhb2wuY29tIg0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=Cwd7wu058j_xNrFzwD-L92K8SP0UC_4SrwrzRUWBxsk=&id=101551551" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">unsubscribe</a> </span></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<img src="https://click.everyaction.com/j/336224228?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9BVi9BVldJVy8xLzg1ODYyIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjI5YTIwMTQxLTQ3YTktZWMxMS1hMjJhLTI4MTg3OGI4NTExMCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAiZ2VyZmxha0Bhb2wuY29tIg0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=Cwd7wu058j_xNrFzwD-L92K8SP0UC_4SrwrzRUWBxsk="></div>
</div></div>