© 2020 Wisconsin Examiner We will never share your email. A campaign official for U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman said Monday a dry throat was to blame for the Wisconsin congressman’s coughing fit at the state Republican party’s in-person convention in Green Bay over the weekend. Ever. Follow her on Twitter at @domdomdiana. Rep. Glenn Grothman, 65, began coughing uncontrollably Saturday when he began his speech at the convention before about 300 attendees at a Green Bay conference center. All market data delayed 20 minutes. Grothman himself has a history of anti-vaccine actions and rhetoric. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, A lifelong Midwesterner, he was born in Cleveland, Ohio and graduated from Loyola University Chicago with a degree in journalism in May 2019. In 2017 Grothman asked disability rights attorney Jeff Spitzer-Resnick if vaccines cause autism — a claim that has been repeatedly disproved. Henry Redman is a staff reporter for the Wisconsin Examiner who focuses on covering Wisconsin's towns and rural areas. The highlight of the weekend was easily Glenn Grothman, who took the stage to do some long distance orange ass-kissing. Mikovits also compares herself to Galileo, Martin Luther King Jr., and Thomas Jefferson. "Let's talk about Donald John Trump," the U.S. representative from Wisconsin's Sixth -district">Congressional District said as he began to cough uncontrollably. Grothman has attended numerous events without wearing a mask, including visits to farmers markets and police stations. Wisconsin Republicans held their state annual convention this weekend, in person, featuring guest star, the coronavirus. Please subscribe to keep reading. ©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. After a video of Rep. Glenn Grothman's coughing fit went viral this weekend, his campaign said the congressman is not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. Voters will choose one of them in the primary on Aug. 11. All rights reserved. SHEBOYGAN – Three Democrats are running to challenge 6th Congressional District U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman, who is in his third term. The event proceeded even as Wisconsin has seen a spike in coronavirus cases, breaking a daily record for newly confirmed cases for a third straight day on the day of the convention.“It's time to talk about Donald John Trump,” said an unmasked Grothman, before coughing for about 10 seconds and loosening his tie. Write CSS OR LESS and hit save. It was mask-optional. The winner will face Glenn Grothman. … I wonder if people feel somebody like her should be on a panel today or be in the room as we rush vaccines to market.”“Could somebody comment on her?” he continued. Grothman himself has a history of anti-vaccine actions and rhetoric. She’s made getting a flu shot increases someone’s risk of contracting COVID-19In the book Grothman cites, Mikovits and her co-author, anti-vaccine blogger Kent Heckenlively, falsely imply that Dr. Anthony Fauci ordered the murder of a virologist in 2013. All rights reserved. U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman, 65, began coughing uncontrollably Saturday when he began his speech at the convention before about 300 attendees at a Green Bay conference center. All market data delayed 20 minutes. In 2013, as a state representative, Grothman defended a bill that would outlaw policies requiring employees to get flu shots. The speech he gave at the convention attracted over 300 Republicans and was held in Green Bay, which holds the state's second highest number of cases. Grothman regained his composure and proceeded to give a defense of Trump's first term in office on a variety of issues.One clip of him coughing that circulated on Twitter had been viewed more than 4.3 million times as of Monday morning. Wisconsin congressman Glenn Grothman broke out into an unmasked coughing fit at the microphone of his speech at the GOP state convention in Green Bay on Saturday. It’s free! The Democratic National Convention is slated to be held in Milwaukee in August, but will be greatly scaled back due to the pandemic.Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inboxThis material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.