Add Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) to the list of hypocritical politicians who preached obedience to the COVID-19 pandemic mandates to all the little people and then did the opposite themselves. To make her hypocrisy worse, she billed taxpayers for her indulgences.

Thanks to some questioning from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, we now know that Baldwin was playing both sides during the pandemic. Recently Baldwin reimbursed taxpayers $630 for a trip she took from Madison to New York City, where her partner lives. The trip was for an extended weekend from November 5-9, 2020, before returning to Washington, D.C.

Here’s the kicker – Baldwin posted a video on Twitter just before Thanksgiving nagging, er, encouraging people to do what they could to stop the spread of COVID-19. This was the height of the pandemic and the Thanksgiving holiday was thought to be a potential super spreader of COVID-19. Less than three weeks after she flew from Wisconsin to New York for a personal visit, she said, “Don’t host or go to gatherings with people outside your household.” “And just stay home if you can.” That was on November 25, 2020.

This Thanksgiving and throughout the holiday season, we all have a role to play in helping our families, friends, neighbors, frontline health care workers, and others stay safe.

Let’s take this on together, so we can move forward together. pic.twitter.com/ysHvbmeSce

— Sen. Tammy Baldwin (@SenatorBaldwin) November 25, 2020

The rules are for the little people.

During this time, Wisconsin and New York City were experiencing a surge in COVID cases. Wisconsin was on New York’s travel restriction list. She wasn’t too worried, apparently, flying from one hot spot to another for a long weekend with her partner. Yet, she told her constituents to stay home and don’t celebrate Thanksgiving with their families. How arrogant.

Gov. Tony Evers (Democrat) delivered the same message to the people in Wisconsin right before Halloween. Stay home, everyone. He delivered the message wearing a mask because that’s normal.

There’s no way to sugarcoat it—we are facing an urgent crisis and there is an imminent risk to you, your family members, your friends, your neighbors, and the people you care about.

— Governor Tony Evers (@GovEvers) October 27, 2020

Once she was exposed by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, she decided to reimburse the taxpayers for that trip.

Just recently, Baldwin’s office reimbursed the federal government for the cost of this trip after being asked about it by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Baldwin campaign staffers said the trip had been erroneously marked as official travel. Baldwin decided to reimburse the federal government, they said, “out of an abundance of caution” and without being asked.

“Tammy Baldwin goes above and beyond to ensure her office is in compliance with ethics policies, including as it relates to her travel,” said Andrew Mamo, spokesman for Baldwin.

Uh-huh.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee made a statement.

“It takes a special kind of arrogance to tell Wisconsin taxpayers not to see their loved ones for the holidays while you bill them for a vacation to see your girlfriend,” said Tate Mitchell, spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. “Tammy Baldwin should change her campaign slogan to ‘Do as I say, not as I do.'”

The newspaper is an equal opportunity investigator into taxpayer-funded travel.

The Journal Sentinel looked into Baldwin’s Senate travel to New York City since she began a relationship with Maria Brisbane, a private wealth adviser in New York. The paper had done a similar review of U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson’s taxpayer-funded travel between Washington, D.C., and a family vacation home in Fort Myers, Florida.

The travel records show Baldwin made no trips to New York City before 2018, the year Baldwin met Brisbane at a fundraiser for New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. Baldwin and Brisbane together own a $1.3 million rooftop condo just steps from the U.S. Capitol.

Over the past five years, Senate records show Baldwin has made a total of nine officially related trips to New York City, either from Washington, D.C., or Wisconsin. The total cost of the flights was $3,631.34.

On eight of the nine trips, Baldwin billed the taxpayers when on official business in the Big Apple, or she used her own funds or frequent-flyer points to cover the cost of flights if the New York leg of the trip was primarily personal.

Baldwin is up for re-election next year and she’s thought to be vulnerable. That is probably her biggest motivation to pay back the taxpayers now. 2024 is a pivotal one in the Senate, with the slim Democrat majority at stake and the very unpopular Joe Biden at the top of the ticket.

This wasn’t the only scandal Baldwin has found herself in this summer. In June, a “very intimate” fundraiser hosted by a leftist politician who supports the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and critical race theory (CRT). The host also has a history of anti-police rhetoric and believes white supremacy has a “stranglehold” on society.

Bay Area city council member Carolyn Wysinger, who co-hosted the event, backs several controversial groups. She recently slammed the Los Angeles Dodgers for uninviting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an anti-Catholic group of “queer and trans nuns,” to their June Pride night.

“3-0 is what LA fans get for sitting back as the Dodgers banned the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from their Pride Night to please religious zealots,” Wysinger wrote in a Facebook post. “Black Lesbian Jesus is not pleased, and until y’all do right by the gays a broom will be comin yalls way….”

That’s some company Senator Baldwin keeps. Several Republican lawmakers have decided not to run against her in 2024, including U.S. Reps Mike Gallagher an Tom Tiffany. Three Republicans have been mentioned as considering a run against her – banking mogul Eric Hovde, Franklin businessman Scott Mayer and ex-Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr.

Baldwin showed she is just another evil authoritarian who demanded everyone else stay home but not her. Think of all the businesses that failed because of lockdowns and other mandates. Families were isolated from each other, even on holidays, and many people died alone. When it happens again, and I think it will since the authoritarians got away with it once, the evil hypocrites may not have such an easy time demanding of others compliance that they did not do themselves. It won’t be so easy to lock down the country next time.