Scott Fitzgerald has represented Wisconsin's 5th District in Congress since 2021 — but he spent years before that running the Wisconsin State Senate. Put the two together and a pattern shows up fast: when voters make a choice he doesn't like, he tries to override it. Here are three things worth knowing before the next election.
1. He tried to throw out your 2020 votes
Just hours after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6th, Scott Fitzgerald joined other Republicans in voting to reject Joe Biden's win — objecting to the certified results from both Arizona and Pennsylvania. Millions of people had legally cast those ballots. He voted to toss them out.
It didn't stop there:
- A Wisconsin state senator alleged that Fitzgerald provided Capitol space for 10 Republicans to meet and produce fake documents falsely claiming Trump won Wisconsin — the state's "fake electors" scheme.
- A week later, he voted against impeaching Trump for inciting the attack.
- Months after that, he voted against even creating an independent commission to investigate what happened on January 6th.
That's a lot of votes for a man who says he supports law and order.
2. He's got a long history of overriding voters
The 2020 stuff wasn't a one-time thing. Go back to 2018. Wisconsin voters had just elected Democrats to every statewide office. Fitzgerald, then the State Senate Majority Leader, responded by leading a lame-duck session to strip powers from the incoming governor and attorney general before they even took office.
Those same laws cut early in-person voting down to the two weeks before an election — a move a federal judge later struck down. To justify overriding the people who'd just voted, Fitzgerald dismissed the incoming administration as one "based almost solely in Madison," writing off city voters as somehow less real than the rest.
When you elect someone, you expect them to respect your vote. Fitzgerald keeps looking for ways around it.
3. Follow the money, and it doesn't lead to you
So who is he actually working for? Look at his top donors:
- Axon Enterprise
- Sentry Insurance
- MGIC Investment
- Amazon.com
- Northwestern Mutual
- GE Precision Healthcare
Those are big corporations and their PACs — not the families in Wisconsin's 5th District. You can see the full list of who's funding him at Who Bought My Rep. When it comes time to vote, these are the folks with his ear.
Whose side is Scott Fitzgerald on?
Whose side is he on? Not the voters who backed Democrats in 2018 — he moved to strip their winners of power. Not the millions who legally voted in 2020 — he tried to throw their ballots out. And not the working families of his district — his donor list is a who's-who of corporate PACs.
Point all three threads in the same direction and they land in the same place. After a career spent finding ways to override what voters decide, that's not an accident — it's the method. In 2026, Wisconsin gets to decide whether it's still the method it wants representing them.
