Nearly four years after John Lieber was elected state treasurer, the official Wisconsin.gove website still lists Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski has treasurer. But why?
Nearly four years after John Leiber won election as state treasurer, the official Wisconsin.gov website still lists Sarah Godlewski as the officeholder — a digital stubbornness that is both baffling and telling.
Godlewski left the treasurer’s post to run for U.S. Senate, then dropped out and was promptly handed the secretary of state position, which insiders politely recognize as a reward for bowing out. She now appears to enjoy the distinction of holding two largely powerless jobs in state government at once, at least according to the state’s online directory. Leiber, the actual winner of the 2022 race and a candidate for reelection this year, is nowhere to be found on the page.

Credit Chris Lawrence for being the first to point this out in a recent Facebook post. The omission has lingered long enough to raise an obvious question: Is the state’s web team acting out of sheer pettiness, or is this simply the latest example of gross bureaucratic incompetence? Whoever is responsible for keeping wisconsin.gov current has shown a remarkable ability to ignore a Republican victory in the 2022 election.
In a comment to the Heartland Post, actual State Treasurer John Leiber said, “They forgot to mention the only Republican in the executive branch? Somehow I’m not surprised.”
Furthermore, the website still lists Carolyn Stanford Taylor as the Department of Public Instruction head, even though she hasn’t held the position since 2021, a full 5 years ago, when she chose not to stand for election.
For now, the official state website stands as a quiet monument to bureaucratic incompetence, or perhaps something slightly pettier, while the actual treasurer campaigns for another term that the webmaster at Wisconsin.gov still refuses to acknowledge he has earned.
