Leonard Boltz, the Langlade County Republican Party chair who has flown Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany to events around Wisconsin, has a long record of promoting claims of election fraud and associating with prominent election deniers, according to public records and recordings reviewed for this report. Tiffany’s campaign reported that Boltz provided 12 flights between January and June, valuing the in-kind contributions at $2,354 in state campaign finance filings. Boltz, a retired U.S. Air Force major, has donated to Republican candidates and causes for years. The reported personal air travel was for Tiffany’s gubernatorial campaign. Flight-tracking records also show Boltz’s plane traveled to areas where Tiffany held events on several other dates. Those records do not establish that Tiffany was on those flights. Earlier this month, the two men were aboard a plane that made an emergency landing in Lake Wausau after a mechanical failure. Both were rescued and treated for minor injuries. At a June meeting of the Langlade County Republican Party, Boltz said Tiffany would win in November if election “cheating” could be stopped. He tied that claim to passage of the federal SAVE Act, which proposes new voting restrictions in the name of preventing noncitizens from voting. There is no evidence that widespread election fraud changed the outcome of Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential election. Boltz also questioned the 2024 U.S. Senate result, saying he did not believe Republican Eric Hovde lost to Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Hovde conceded nearly two weeks after the election while criticizing the vote count; no evidence of irregularities in the tally was identified. Boltz has also called for a forensic audit of the 2020 election and traveled to Arizona in 2021 amid efforts to scrutinize that state’s results. Tiffany voted against certifying the 2020 election results. In May, he declined to say whether Joe Biden had won; this month, he told Wisconsin Watch that Biden won, while saying he would cooperate with President Donald Trump’s federal investigations into the election. Tiffany has supported the SAVE Act in Congress. Boltz has worked alongside figures including former state Rep. Janel Brandtjen and former Assembly Speaker Michael Gableman, both associated with efforts to challenge the 2020 results. He and other Langlade County party officials were also involved in a campaign-finance matter in which roughly $40,000 passed through the party’s accounts to the campaign of Adam Steen, who challenged former Assembly Speaker Robin Vos. The state ethics commission recommended criminal charges; local prosecutors declined to file them. Tiffany’s campaign had not responded to emailed questions by publication. When approached at a campaign event in Waukesha County, Tiffany entered his car as staff members blocked a reporter from asking a question. Boltz declined to comment by phone.