Robin Vos’s Title Loan Trip Troubles
Company pays for his trip to London, he backs less regulations on its high interest loans.
Robin Vos
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’s ties to a title loan company in Georgia have put him in hot water.
As Jason Stein and Patrick Marley have reported for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, two lobbyists for the title loan company, Select Management Resources, went on a trip to London with Vos last August. The trip was paid for by the GOPAC Education Fund.
The CEO of Select Management Resources, Rod Aycox, has been a big donor to Republicans in Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign notes that on October 5, 2016, Rod Aycox gave his largest donation, $20,000, to the Republican Assembly Campaign Committee in Wisconsin, which Vos controls.
Just a few weeks earlier, Vos had sent a letter to the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau in Washington, D.C., complaining that some regulations that had been proposed would be “so cumbersome they would effectively eliminate the short-term lending industry in Wisconsin.”
According to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, Rod and his wife, Leslie, gave a total of $96,500 to candidates and legislative campaign committees between 2006 and 2018. All but $1,000 went to Republicans; they haven’t given to Democrats in more than a decade.
Select Management Resources owns 16 LoanMax stores in Wisconsin
In 2011, the Republican-controlled legislature passed a bill that loosened regulations on title loan companies in Wisconsin.
Aycox’s second biggest gift was $8,000 to the Committee to Elect a Republican Senate in Wisconsin, which he delivered on October 16, 2016.
His third biggest was to Gov. Walker, who got $5,000 on August 4, 2014.
And his fourth biggest gift was to Brad Schimel, who got $2,500 on March 5, 2017.
Vos’s counterpart in Ohio, Cliff Rosenberger, was on the same London trip as Vos, and Rosenberger is stepping down because of an FBI investigation into that trip, among other issues, according to the Journal Sentinel.
Vos told the Journal Sentinel he has not been contacted by the FBI.
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Soooo greasy! Robin Vos should be forced to resign! You gotta Pay to Play in Walker’s Wississippi! Sleazy Robin Vos knows that! Wisconsin Republicans have truly perfected the art of corruption. They gerrymander the state, steal our voting rights, sell themselves and the state off to the highest bidder all while mooching off the taxpayers for decades or like Walker, their entire adult lives! Wisconsin republicans are scheming, lying, cheating, corrupt charlatans!
Dump Vos
Dump Walker
Dump Vukmir
Dump Fitzgerald
Dump ALL Republicans!!
WI repubs are looking great lately! Congrats Robin, thank you for tirelessly working in our best INTEREST.
A trip to London so Robin Vos could “research Winston Churchhill…” that is honestly this frauds excuse. Yeah right….Hey Robin, you and other republicans obviously didn’t learn anything about history. If you did you republicans wouldn’t be sycophantic Trump enablers and appeasers but instead you would’ve stood up to Trump’s fascism! But you, Walker, Ryan and all the rest of Wisconson republicans don’t. Shame on you! Shame!! Want some research? Get a copy of The Gathering Storm, read it!
He’s got the skills to pay to play to fleece the state taxpayers.
“so Robin Vos could “research Winston Churchhill”
-Robin :
-Get a BOOK./Read a BOOK.
-GOOGLE Winston Churchill.
-Watch PBS
-Come up with a more clever excuse for this obvious free vacation. Have you learned nothing about impropriety?
-Or do you think that in the Trump era that this is small potatoes?
Dump Vos
Dump Walker
Dump Fitzgerald
Dump Vukmir
Dump ALL these crooked republicans!
How lame can you get? If this guy has to travel to learn about the leaders of the places he visits, he must not know much. Lets get rid of fools like this.
Usury is bad enough Robin! Jesus threw the avaricious money lenders out of the temple. Robin Vos invited them in and set the table! Resign sir, resign! Or we’ll vote you out of office very soon!
Dump Vos
“The list of questions Robin Vos needs to answer about his relationship with sleazy Cliff Rosenberger and how he’s doing business in Wisconsin keeps growing.”
http://onewisconsinnow.org/press/robin-voss-relationship-with-disgraced-ex-ohio-speaker-didnt-start-in-london/