Baldwin: WI GOP Legislators Are āDisrespecting The Votersā With Power Grab
YEP! but we donāt give a shit
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āI hope that Speaker Ryan is still as invested as he ever was in the success of Wisconsin, so I think he absolutely should speak up about this.ā
Cāmon, Tammy, just frigginā say it: The GOP have subverted democracy and undertaken a legislative coup.
Why canāt the Democrats be bold here? Tony Evers sounds like oatmeal, and heās going to plead with Scott Walker? God almighty. Who are they afraid of offending - people who would never consider them in the first place?
That was barely even sternly worded.
No Shit
I saw him on TEEVEE What a fucking wimp.
This needs some Anthony Weiner /Alan Grayson level outrage and screaming Not only him but every Dem who shows their face on TV. First thing out of their mouths
They should all be howling how the Republicans donāt believe in Democracy and want to subvert the will of the people
They are the real voter fraud people as we have seen in NC
GET ON MESSAGE IDIOTS
Could not agree more. Lord, I miss Al Franken. And whereās Bernie, the perennially outraged? Nothing? The people in WI must be livid - and Eversā behavior is adding insult to injury.
Oh weāre sorry , heās not a Democrat .
He doesnāt have a dog in the fight
Memo to Ms. Senator Baldwin:
ICYMI -
the ONLY āvotersā who matter to repugnicans are their voters.
Also, to paraphrase DFrumās pre-election column: repugnicans are well aware that they do not represent the majority of Americans but theyāre NOT going to accept their fate. They will cheat, depress and deny any type of voting against their agenda no matter the public reaction and will continue to do so indefenitely.ā
Donāt miss the point here ā Evers knows Walker wonāt change anything. He knows Walker will burn the house down after being evicted (partly out of spite, partly because Walker loves the dramatic power grab and the sneak attack, as evidenced by his ādrop the bombā comment when he started his term in 2011 with an attack on unions).
Evers (as State schools chief) has successfully fought Walker for years, as college-dropout Walker tried to systematically de-fund public education here.
This is about the long game, most of which will play out after Walkerās gone. Evers isnāt really talking to Walker, here. Heās talking to the people of Wisconsin. Heās keeping the issue in the news, letting people know something extraordinary ā a fascist power grab ā exploded over the weekend, while the Bush funeral (and dismissal of the Packers coach, locally) occupied the news cycle.
Years of litigation and gridlock will follow. Evers is just telling the Cheese Republic why that will now be inevitable. Heās putting it on Walkerās intransigence, his spite and his fascism, in a personal and public way.
āA timid question will always receive a confident answer.ā - Charles John Darling, English lawyer, politician, and judge
Hey everyone, Iām writing from Madison, WI. Tony Evers ran a disciplined, sharply messaged campaign (schools, roads, and health care) to beat an incumbent governor who vastly outspent him and dispatched two previous challengers. Evers is not a yeller, but heās no wimp, nor is he willing to accept whatever the Republican legislature decides.
For example:
āIn a news conference Wednesday afternoon, Evers called the bills āa hot messā and said they set āa dangerous precedent.ā Asked if heād have any recourse if the bills become law, Evers said āeverythingās on the table, from litigation to other actions.ā He also released a statement slamming what happened overnight. āWisconsin has never seen anything like this,ā he said. āPower-hungry politicians rushed through sweeping changes to our laws to expand their own power and override the will of the people of Wisconsin who asked for change on Nov. 6.āā
Evers is simply not in a position to stop this right now. By indicating a willingness to talk to Walker, heās presenting himself as a reasonable leader against an unreasonable and power-hungry opponent. Walker will very likely sign the bill no matter what Evers does. But Evers is trying to build a constituency across the state to respond in other ways. Itās very likely that this will go to court. Plus, there will be a pivotal state Supreme Court election.
Democrats in Wisconsin are fighting (but not always yelling). Figuring out what will be effective in a grossly gerrymandered state requires a longer-term strategy.
Weiner/Grayson level outrage and screaming didnāt get them far. One had to resign in disgrace, the other served one term. If Baldwin had said nothing, even as wimpy as this is, thereād be cries of āWhereās Baldwin, why isnāt she speaking out on behalf of WI voters?ā
Yeah. I sure sympathize with non-Cheeseheads demanding that Wisconsin Dems fight fire with fire here, and have expressed similar sentiments. But most people have heard of Midwestern Nice (AKA Wisconsin Nice or Minnesota Nice, etc.), which gets at a particular regional conflict-averseness and passive-aggressiveness that I suspect Evers & Co. are being mindful of here. They donāt need to fire up the people who came out to the capitol to protest last week. They need to win the sympathies of the people who voted for Walker twice (or thrice) and who reflexively vote Republican (both because of Wisconsinās Republican roots and because itās the Whypipo Party), but whose sense of fair play might motivate them to vote otherwise going forward.
I didnāt love Evers as a gubernatorial pick for Team D ā Iāve been out in NY a while and maybe Iāve gone native, but his Mr. Rogers routine rubs me the wrong way. But Democratic voters out there seem to have known what they were doing, and us outlanders should probably try to respect that Evers and Baldwin probably know their audience better than we do.
The GOP gave up without even a vote on the Kimberly-Clark jobs subsidy, which was the ostensible reason to have this āspecial sessionā in the first place. Obviously this was just a shell operation to have the session already in place before the election, as needed.
Apparently they also gave up moving the nonpartisan primary date next year, which was their maneuver to help elect a conservative judge to the state supreme court.
By the way, Tony Earl is not a wimp.
Thank you for posting and giving a Wisconsin perspective.
And keep fighting the good fight! Blue wave 2018 and 2020!!
Maybe , but something anything other than Oh wellā¦
Part 2 Messaging
They should be unified on this just like the Republican Entertainment Complex
Everyone singing the same tune until by osmosis or some lizard brain awakening the rubes wake up to the fact theyāre being screwed
Some have the gift of speaking off the cuff, some donāt.
For sure. Baldwin, an out woman, getting herself elected in a state of dairy farmers? Anyone who thinks they know better how she should peak to her people needs an intervention.
That said, she did seem nervous and a bit unused to cable news type grilling. That I will say.
This is news? This is far from the first time.