Am I an idiot? (Well, yes, but I’ll ask this anyway . . .)
Since the judges have ruled on the statute as it currently stands, how would re-writing the provision render moot those rulings regarding the special elections?
The new law will be made retroactive to include these two open seats.
Edit–The WI Supremes will be asked to rule not only on the law as it currently stands, but on the request to give Walker another 9 days to call for special elections. By then the new law will be in place.
This how Democracy dies… as an inconvenience to Republican control.
I am ashamed of Republican politicians who have so lost contact with America that they are willing to kill democracy itself to stay in power.
Follow the money.
Well after you successfully steal a supreme court seat and pay no price what’s a couple of state house seats…
I still don’t understand the angle here. Why would they want to move these elections to November when there will undoubtedly be many more enthused Democratic voters heading to the polls than in a special election? Is it because they think all the Koch money the Senate and gubernatorial elections will provide long enough to coattails to save Republicans seeking lower level offices? Won’t Democrats being pouring in plenty of their own money?
The only angle is that the GOP is in full-blown panic mode, and are flailing madly at anything that looks like a threat to their dying regime of corruption.
Honestly I have no idea what they are trying to accomplish with this.
It’s a reflex in part, and it’s how they operate, never give an inch on anything ever.
That’s why they’re the full grown men that will clobber a 12 year old playing a friendly neighborhood game of football on Thanksgiving, or something similar.
They’re just assholes thru and thru, and need to go away for ever.
Remember this date, kids: March 29, 2018. That is the day that all pretenses of Democracy will have died in Wisconsin.
(For the record, Democracy actually, for all intents and purposes, died the day Snott Wanker was sworn in as governor…)
It’s because Republicans are all Tactics, no Strategy.
They HAVE to WIN TODAY to prove their manliness or it looks bad to the rubes that vote for them.
They have an IMAGE OF SUPERIORITY to maintain, at all costs.
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!”
The succinctness of the appeals court ruling is going to be hard for the WI Supremes to overturn.
- Walker has acknowledged it’s his obligation to follow the law.
- Representative government is never unnecessary.
Besides, denying two districts their representative rights in a vote to determine their representative rights flies in the face of due process.
"Representative government and the election of our representatives are
never ‘unnecessary,’ never a ‘waste of taxpayer resources,’ and the
calling of the special elections are, as the Governor acknowledges, his
‘obligation’ to follow,” Judge Paul Reilly wrote in the ruling
thank you judge
merrick garland grrr…
11 months is an awful long time to be unrepresented, don’t ya think?
I’d say it’s a few things. They know things are looking bad politically now in terms of special elections. Since they won’t win now, maybe they’ll win in November. If not, at least they kept 2 Dem state senators out in the meantime. Also, losing 2 more specials so soon after Conor Lamb will compound the perception that Republicans are in serious trouble. And that will become a self-fulfilling prophecy, as more sitting R’s choose not to run again, which leaves more open seats, which makes it more likely Dems will win them, etc. Plus, they’re just corrupt anti-democratic assholes.
You tell em, Nelson!