Liberal Waukesha School Board member Diane Voit used her Board email account to coordinate with a far-left organization on lobbying for drivers’ licenses for illegal immigrants, The Heartland Post has learned exclusively.
Open records requests show that liberal Waukesha School Board member Diane Voit used her taxpayer-funded board email account to coordinate with WISDOM, a far-left prison abolition advocacy group, on efforts to lobby state lawmakers on a range of issues, such as shutting down prisons and providing drivers licenses to illegal immigrants.
Screenshots from Voit’s personal Facebook page indicate she did, in fact, attend WISDOM’s Day at the Capitol, where activists met with legislators to promote the group’s policy priorities. Voit participated as a member of SOPHIA, Waukesha County’s affiliate of the statewide network, which claims to have “played a key role in shutting down the Huber facility in Waukesha.” Voit sent the email from her official school board account to Susan Mingesz, the president of SOPHIA.
WISDOM describes itself as “a statewide network, committed to bringing diverse communities together to work for racial and economic justice,” guided by principles of “radical inclusion” and “costly reconciliation.” Its 2025–2027 policy agenda includes proposals to close prisons without building new facilities, extend legal protections to rivers and forests, provide driver’s licenses to illegal aliens, and end 287(g) agreements between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities.
In July 2025, Noelia Martinez—an illegal immigrant from Honduras with a criminal record—killed a teenage couple while driving drunk the wrong way on the interstate near DeForest. She was later arrested by federal immigration authorities, after the Dane County Sheriff’s Office declined ICE’s request to transfer her into federal custody.
The newly released emails add to a series of controversies surrounding Voit’s use of her official account. She is currently the subject of an ethics complaint alleging she used her school board email for campaign-related activity and to communicate with leaders of a left-leaning political organization supporting her reelection bid.
The complaint also raises conflict-of-interest concerns, citing emails in which Voit urged a Waukesha North High School administrator to nominate her daughter, a teacher in the district, for a “Wall of Stars” recognition. It further references her financial support of a GoFundMe campaign for former teacher Melissa Tempel, who filed a lawsuit against the district after being terminated in 2023 following a unanimous board vote that included Voit.
Voit is seeking a third term on the Waukesha School Board. She is running alongside Melissa Toledo and Mitch Gallagher. The conservative candidates in the race are incumbent board member Bette Koenig and newcomer Chase Allen. Both can be found on the Heartland Post’s Ultimate Conservative Voter Guide.
The election will be held Tuesday, April 7, with early voting already underway.
