Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers Booed at DNC ​​for Green Bay Packers Reference, Then Has Trouble Speaking

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers is apparently not cut out to handle the Chicago Bears’ 12th man.

When the Democratic governor attempted to take his turn to declare his state’s party delegates for Kamala Harris at the DNC on Tuesday, the hometown Chicago crowd booed Evers so mercilessly over a sports reference that he struggled to finish the declaration.

Evers stood before a crowd of Wisconsin delegates wearing cheese hats, the famous headgear worn by Green Bay Packers fans. The Packers have been the Chicago Bears’ fiercest rivals for more than 100 years. The Bears and Packers share the NFL’s oldest rivalry, and the two teams have met more times than any other team in NFL history.

After all these encounters, their fans clearly don’t like each other.

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All of this was brought home to Evers brutally by his party comrades in Chicago, with a chorus of boos.

That didn’t stop Evers from reading off the other major sports teams based in his state, including the University of Wisconsin Badgers and the Milwaukee Bucks and Brewers. When it came time to announce the delegation’s vote for Harris, the governor began to choke on his words.

“Wisconsin has one vote in favor and 90 votes in favor… where are we?” Evers asked, struggling to speak. He then paused to collect himself and told the crowd, “You’re making me react here.”

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Evers then mumbled again and stopped to gasp, saying, “Oh my God,” before the cheeseheads around him began chanting, “We love you Tony!”

Evers shook his head and repeated “I” three times before stopping again.

“Ninety-four votes for…” Evers began before having to stop again. “I’ll get there, I’ll get there.”

The crowd fell silent, except for a man standing right next to Evers who laughed and looked around. The governor then waved and began speaking again.

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“Ninety-four votes for former Wisconsin native, Vice President and our next President of the United States of America, Kamala Ha-Harris,” he finally declared.

Evers, 72, has been in office since January 2019. In April, he urged the Wisconsin Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that banned mail-in ballot drop boxes beyond the boundaries of election clerks’ offices in the key presidential contest state. In a brief filed on the day of Wisconsin’s presidential primary, Evers asked the court to overturn a 2022 ruling that limited drop box locations.

In March, Evers vetoed 41 bills passed by the Republican-led legislature, rejecting a $3 billion Republican tax cut, political loyalty pledges for higher education employees and a plan to set the number of wolves that can be hunted each year.

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