<http://schema.org/articleBody>
"A Waukesha lawmaker has been removed by his party as majority leader.VIDEO: Rep. Bill Kramer removed as Assembly majority LeaderAssembly Republicans voted Tuesday morning on removing Rep. Bill Kramer as majority leader, the second highest post in the Assembly.WISN 12 News reporter Kent Wainscott said the GOP's caucus reopened at 11:40 a.m. and unanimously voted to remove Kramer from the position.\"These are alleged incidents, but I think we have credible witnesses,\" Republican state Rep. Dan LaMahiue said.Rep. Pat Strachota, of West Bend, was chosen to fill the role of majority leader for the remainder of the session.She becomes the first woman to serve as Assembly majority leader. She has previously announced plans to retire and won't seek re-election.Kramer has not commented on the allegations that he groped a woman and verbally abused another one while in Washington for a fundraiser.Kramer's chief of staff said he was not be at the vote because he is in treatment.Speaker Robin Vos said that the legislature does not plan to censure Kramer during this session, and hopes that Kramer will simply choose to not seek reelection.\"I think by unanimous vote that we saw today, our colleagues were definitely convinced that the actions that he took were reprehensible, should never have occurred and certainly something that he should be embarrassed by,\" Vos said.Kramer represents the city of Waukesha and much of the southwestern part of Waukesha County."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.wisn.com/article/wis-gop-removes-kramer-as-assembly-majority-leader/6320222>