Joe Sanfelippo (born February 26, 1964) is an American businessman and politician. He was a member of the

Wisconsin State Assembly The Wisconsin State Assembly is the lower house of the Wisconsin Legislature. Together with the smaller Wisconsin Senate, the two constitute the legislative branch of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Representatives are elected for two-year terms, ...

, representing

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from 2013 to 2022.

Biography

From

West Allis, Wisconsin West Allis is a city in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. A suburb of Milwaukee, it is part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area. The population was 60,325 at the 2020 census. History The name West Allis derives from Edward P. Allis, ...

, Sanfelippo went to

Marquette University Marquette University () is a private Jesuit research university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Established by the Society of Jesus as Marquette College on August 28, 1881, it was founded by John Martin Henni, the first Bishop of the diocese of M ...

and then opened a landscape company. Sanfelippo served on the

Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Milwaukee County is located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. At the 2020 census, the population was 939,489, down from 947,735 in 2010. It is both the most populous and most densely populated county in Wisconsin, and the 45th most populous cou ...

Board of Supervisors. In November 2012, Sanfelippo was elected to the

as a

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. On February 13, 2020, speaking on the radio for the Wisconsin Republican Party, and in support of a crime bill, Sanfelippo stated, "Violent crime rates increased in all but two Wisconsin cities between 2008 and 2017." The national media fact-checking organization, PolitiFact evaluated his claim and found it to be "Pants On Fire" in error. His conclusions were based on flawed data, and almost entirely false. Crime in fact had increased slightly in Milwaukee, but essentially nowhere else, according to state and FBI numbers. Some of those organizations and municipalities generating the numbers had also somewhat changed reporting systems, so it was not possible to establish Sanfelippo's claims as facts. After Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, Sanfelippo made unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud and suggested that Wisconsin should ignore the results of the election and that the state's electors should choose either

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or Biden. Sanfelipp also suggested nullifying the election results and holding a new election.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sanfelippo, Joe Living people People from West Allis, Wisconsin Marquette University alumni Businesspeople from Wisconsin County supervisors in Wisconsin 1964 births 21st-century American politicians Republican Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly