From November 6, 2022 post
Two days before Election Day, Tony Evers is finally admitting that he can influence individual parole decisions – after a month and a half of asserting the opposite.
In today’s edition of UpFront, Tony Evers specifies that he can “intervene when [he sees] that victims aren’t at the table.” He goes on to assert his “confidence” in the parole commission that has released nearly 1,000 brutal murderers, child rapists, and other heinous criminals back into Wisconsin neighborhoods – including multiple who have reoffended.
“Tony Evers has now admitted that he can ‘monitor’ paroles – but despite the nearly 1,000 brutal murderers, child rapists, and heinous criminals being released by his parole commission, he’s chosen to coddle criminals and stay out of the process,” said Michels Campaign Spokesperson Anna Kelly. “Tony Evers is a politician, a coward, and an enabler of releasing murderers and rapists back into our communities.”
After months of echoing Evers’ messaging and pushing the false claim that he has no impact on parole decisions, the media owes the public transparency about Evers’ outright refusal to act on the hundreds of horrific criminals that he has the ability to “monitor,” but doesn’t.
Watch the full interview here.
Read the transcript:
Matt Smith:
On the campaign trail, public safety has dominated — Michels calling on Evers to halt the state’s parole process, a process dictated by state law for those sentenced before 2000. The governor appoints the head of the commission, the commission making the ultimate decision on parole. Are you confident in the parole commission, in your commission, as we sit here today that they won’t release any more violent offenders that will go out and reoffend?
Tony Evers:
Well, what I am confident in going forward is that they will do their job by making sure that victims have a seat at the table.That’s, that’s part of the, that’s part of the, uh, it’s part of their job. And, yes, I’m convinced that that will be…the parole commission worked for Walker and worked for Tommy Thompson. It worked for Doyle, they released more people than I did. Suddenly, suddenly because of an election, it’s a different story. Well, the parole commission is the parole commission, it’s not something that I can do…you know, I have any control over. If I need to, I’ll intervene when I see that victims aren’t at the table to provide their, their, their testimony to the commissioners. And so that’s, that’s the best I can do.
Matt Smith:
So you do have a little bit of control?
Tony Evers:
Well, on that issue, yeah. I mean, I, I can certainly monitor their work. And if it seems like they’re doing something that isn’t according to Hoyle, by the state law, I’ll call them out on that, sure.
Original source can be found here.
