Chuck Wichgers

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Chuck C. Wichgers
Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
from the 83rd district
Assumed office
January 2, 2017
Preceded byDavid Craig
Personal details
Born (1965-07-04) July 4, 1965 (age 56)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Political partyRepublican
Spouse(s)Michelle (Hocking) Wichgers
ResidenceMuskego, Wisconsin
Alma materWaukesha County Technical College
ProfessionMedical sales, politician
WebsiteOfficial website

Chuck Wichgers (born July 4, 1965) is a Wisconsin politician and businessman. He is a Republican.[1]

Wichgers was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated from Muskego High School in 1983 and attended Waukesha County Technical College from 1984–1985.[1] He was a Waukesha County supervisor and alderman of Muskego (1999–2002).[1][2] He was first elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 2016, from District 83.[1]

In 2017, he sponsored a controversial bill that would allow chiropractors to give physicals to student athletes. (Under current Wisconsin law, only physicians and physician assistants may do so.)[3] In 2021, he sponsored legislation to prohibit public schools from teaching students and employees about concepts such as systemic racism and implicit bias; the bill passed an Assembly committee on a party-line vote.[4]

In March 2020, Wichgers opposed a Wisconsin Department of Health Services rule that seventh-grade students to receive the meningitis vaccine, a key protection against bacterial meningitis. The proposal was voted down on party lines in a committee vote.[5] October 2020, amid a surge of COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin, Wichgers was one of several Wisconsin Republican legislators who attended an indoor mass gathering hosted by an anti-abortion organizations without wearing masks.[6] In August 2021, Wichgers delivered a speech to anti-vaccine mandate protestors at the Wisconsin State Capitol, at which demonstrators likened COVID-19 vaccines to genocide and tyranny.[7]

After Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, Wichgers was one of 15 Wisconsin Republican legislators (joined by 76 Republican state legislators from other states) who attempted to subvert the election result and block Biden's victory. On January 5, 2021—one day before a violent pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol—Wichgers signed a letter asking Vice President Mike Pence to delay the legally-mandated counting of the electoral votes for 10 days while they worked to convince Republican-controlled state legislators in key states won by Biden to overturn the election results, keeping Trump in power for another term.[8][9]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d Representative Chuck Wichgers: Assembly District 83 (R - Muskego), Wisconsin State Assembly.
  2. ^ Mark Schaaf, Four vie for open state Assembly seat, Racine Journal Times, August 4, 2016.
  3. ^ Wisconsin bill would allow chiropractors to give physicals to student athletes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 3, 2017. Retrieved July 22, 2017
  4. ^ Mitchell Schmidt (September 23, 2021). "Republicans advance bill banning critical race theory in schools". Wisconsin State Journal.
  5. ^ Briana Reilly, New rule requiring Wisconsin seventh graders get meningitis vaccine faces GOP pushback, The Capital Times (March 6, 2020).
  6. ^ Riley Vetterkind, Amid COVID-19 surge, GOP lawmakers, including health chairman, attend indoor mass gathering, Racine Journal-Times (October 24, 2020).
  7. ^ Elizabeth Beyer & David Wahlberg, At state Capitol rally, protestors against vaccine mandates decry 'genocide,' 'tyranny', Wisconsin State Journal (August 11, 2021).
  8. ^ Patrick Marley, 15 Wisconsin Republicans asked Pence to block Biden's victory the day before the attack on the Capitol, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (January 14, 2021).
  9. ^ Adam Rogan, 15 state Republicans, including Wichgers, signed letter asking Pence to stall election count, Racine Journal Times (January 14, 2021).

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