Monday morning, Chatfield and Speaker-Elect Jason Wentworth
announced that state Rep. Gary Eisen, a Republican, had been stripped of his assignments following remarks in a
WPHM radio interview in which he said he was helping coordinate protests and could not assure that there would not be violence.
Eisen, who supported the failed Texas lawsuit that sought to overturn the election results, did not give details about who was organizing the protests but said he was warned "it's going to be violence, it's going to be protests."
"We have been consistent in our position on issues of violence and intimidation in politics -- it is never appropriate and never acceptable," Chatfield and Wentworth said in a statement. "That is true of threats or suggestions of violence against Gov. Whitmer, Secretary Benson, Rep. Johnson and others on the Oversight committee, Republicans, Democrats, and members of the Electoral College. That applies to threats made toward public officials, and it must also apply when the public officials open the door to violent behavior and refuse to condemn it. We must do better."