Tiffany lies about his votes on the war in Iran, says governor has no control over gas prices despite adopting Crowley’s policy

Congressman Tom Tiffany, the Republican nominee for Wisconsin governor, has spent recent days lying about his own record despite the public’s ability to see how he voted.

The deception couldn’t be any more nefarious since the issue at hand is the war in Iran which is raising gas prices to historic highs here in the U.S, especially in Wisconsin.

Tiffany was pressed by a reporter on Friday for his no votes against ending the war in Iran, despite publicly remarking that the war should conclude.

“Why do you continue to vote no to end that war?” a reporter asked.

“I have not voted no,” Tiffany responded.

“The War Powers Resolution,” the reporters cut him off. “You voted twice against it.”

“Yeah, I have not voted no to end,” Tiffany said before cutting himself off.

“So first of all, we should end the Iranian conflict, the sooner the better. And make sure we take care of things at home,” he said.

Tiffany has voted five times to continue the war effort.

He said in May on the Dryden Wire podcast, “My position is it’s time to wrap up the war” before voting just hours later in the House to continue the war.

In recent days, Tiffany has said the governor of Wisconsin basically has no way of lowering gas prices, despite copying a policy position his opponent had first, which would lower costs.

The Democratic nominee, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, proposed a repeal of the state’s minimum mark-up law in June. In August, Tiffany adopted the policy.

But that didn’t stop him from telling PBS Wisconsin earlier this week that the governor has little or no effect on gas prices.

“Gas prices are too high. Those are largely set on world markets,” he said. “The thing I’ve been focused on is what can I do as governor? Because you can flail on issues that you don’t have any impact on. I think it’s very important to have a governor that is going to be focused on the issues that you can help people out with.”

Tiffany went on to make policy proposals that have nothing to do with gas prices, but he says will “put more money in people’s pockets.”

In January, Tiffany posted a tweet that continues to haunt him. He stood outside a gas station sign in Glidden which showed gas below $2.50 a gallon.

“Even CNN reports that 2026 is on track to be the cheapest year for gas since 2020. Promises made, promises kept,” Tiffany wrote.

Tiffany was asked about the tweet during his PBS interview.

“It’s outside of our control and at that time it was $2.35 or something like that, so gas prices had gone down,” he said. “They’ve gone up as a result of the instability in the Middle East and Iran and with the Revolutionary Guard plinking a ship every now and then in the Strait of Hormuz to keep gas prices up. So it’s really important that we have more energy that is being produced. That’s the thing I’ve been focused on, both state and federally, is we have to be energy independent here in America.”

Tiffany then again made policy proposals not related to gas prices.