Wisconsin State Representatives, Priscilla Prado, Greta Neubauer and Kalan Haywood, all democrats apparently co-sponsored a state assembly bill that Representative Sylvia Ortiz-Velez, also a democrat had authored just 25 days after they filed a complaint against Ortiz-Velez with Capitol Police for allegedly threatening to use an AR-15 on the three dems. Capitol Police in Madison investigated the allegation and found no probable cause to criminally charge Ortiz-Velez.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
March 2, 2026
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Monday, Victor Huyke, the Publisher of El Conquistador Latino Newspaper posted on his personal Facebook page that Wisconsin State Representatives Priscilla Prado from Milwaukee, Greta Neubauer from Racine and Kalan Haywood from Milwaukee had filed a complaint with Capitol Police regarding an alleged threat made by Wisconsin State Representative Sylvia Ortiz-Velez (D-Milw) against the three dems in early September 2025 over two joint Hispanic Heritage Month and Hispanic Veterans resolutions, but Capitol Police investigated the alleged threat by Ortiz-Velez and they found no probable cause to criminally charge her. But 25 days later, Representatives Prado, Neubauer and Haywood co-sponsored a proposed Assembly Bill AB 441/SB 444, which required law enforcement officers to identify themselves as such, wear surnames, department insignia on their uniform and badge number including the prohibition of officers covering their faces or other disguise to conceal their identities while detaining or arresting individuals that was originally authored by Rep. Ortiz-Velez, how ironic. (Huyke's Facebook post at link: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18ETBzqyKN/ and HNNUSA article link: http://hispanicnewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/09/wisconsin-state-rep-greta-neubauer-d.html)
Since the three dems mentioned, Prado, Neubauer and Haywood couldn't get Capitol Police to find probable cause to criminally charged Ortiz-Velez in Dane County in early September 2025, Prado filed a complaint with the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office that included Neubauer and Haywood as potential witnesses regarding Representative Ortiz-Velez allegedly making a threat to expose Prado's inappropriate personal actions to a reporter.
The Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office filed a one count misdemeanor charge against Rep. Ortiz-Velez on February 25, 2026, which no doubt is a frivolous complaint at best. (HNNUSA article link: http://hispanicnewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2026/02/wi-state-rep-sylvia-n-ortiz-velez-48-d.html)
According to Wisconsin Right Now (WRN), a known right-wing news website, a article dated March 1. 2026, regarding the criminal complaint filed against Ortiz-Velez says, that she has speech protection (immunity) in regards to making any comments during the Assembly floor or outside, since it's related to resolutions regardless, if debate, discussions and controversy is created. (WRN article: https://www.wisconsinrightnow.com/sylvia-ortiz-velez-milwaukee-charge/)
The hypocrisy by Prado, Neubauer and Haywood is evident, if they felt threatened by Rep. Ortiz-Velez in September 2025, then why would they help co-sponsor AB 441/SB 444 that Ortiz-Velez authored? (Bills link: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/ab441, bill text link: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/related/proposals/ab441, and https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/sb444#, bill text bill link: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/related/proposals/sb444)
The worst part about it, is that Rep. Ortiz-Velez helped Rep. Prado in her campaign to get elected to the state assembly, and Prado in return turned against Rep. Ortiz-Velez. Politics makes very strange bedfellows as the saying goes.
Rep. Neubauer is the Democrat minority leader in the Wisconsin State Assembly.
On February 20, 2026, Rep. Ortiz-Velez outed in the State Assembly floor when asked, if she was ever told to leave the Assembly floor and not vote for her 8th District, Ortiz-Velez said "Yes". It seems that the Democrat minority leader Rep. Neubauer had been prohiting other Dems from voting in a bipartisan vote on bills with Republicans that they favored, according to sources.
