Timothy S. Ramthun (born March 13, 1957) is an American consultant and

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politician from Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. He was a member of the

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from 2019 through 2022, representing the 59th Assembly district, and was an unsuccessful candidate for

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in the 2022 Republican primary.

Background

Ramthun was born and raised in

Kewaskum, Wisconsin Kewaskum is a village in Washington and Fond du Lac counties in Wisconsin, United States. The population was 4,004 at the 2010 census. All of this population resided in the Washington County portion of the village. The village is mostly surro ...

. Ramthun was elected to the Kewaskum Board of Education and served as President of the board for two years.

Political office

His first attempt at election to the

was in 2014, when he ran in the Republican primary to replace

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, but was defeated by Jesse Kremer. Four years later, in 2018, Kremer chose not to run for re-election and Ramthun again entered the Republican primary. This time he prevailed over the Republican field and went on to win the general election without opposition. Ramthun ran in the Republican Party primary for the

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against Tim Michels, former lieutenant governor Rebecca Kleefisch, Kevin Nicholson and Adam J. Fisher. Michels won the primary, while Ramthun received only six-percent of the vote.

2020 presidential election

After Joe Biden won the

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and

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refused to concede while making false claims of fraud, Ramthun solicited private donations to conduct an audit of the presidential election results in Wisconsin. Ramthun released a video that he titled, "The Calm Before the Storm", a phrase used in association with QAnon, a

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that contends the U.S. government is controlled by a cabal of

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s. Ramthun in November 2021 introduced a

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in which the legislature would rescind certification of the 2020 election results and "reclaim" Wisconsin's electoral votes. The motion was praised by Trump (who urged a member of the State Senate to co-sponsor the motion), but condemned nationally. Assembly Majority Leader

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, a fellow Republican, said the Assembly would not act on the resolution, since the attorneys of the nonpartisan Wisconsin Legislative Council agreed that there is no way in the law to do such a thing and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (also a Republican) rejecting the idea as a "talking point of the far left and

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References

External links

Representative Timothy S. Ramthun
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