But they’re not. Thanks to the current gerrymander it would probably take about 75% of voters picking democrats to get roughly even numbers in the legislature.
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Definitely Nixon, at least. The Southern Strategy, welcoming the racist southern Democrats into the party instead of rejecting and vilifying them, was one of the first shots fired in this war we are fighting.
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I don’t see the WI Rs as throwing a tantrum…that would indicate knowing they had lost and just trying to do some last bits of damage. No, we are in a new era where R states are flouting even RW SCOTUS decisions, while R state leges have gone primal with their ‘congress controls everything’ rampages. The R state and U.S. supreme courts are making huge power grabs. None of it for the benefit of R voters. Sure, some of the nasty lib-slapping stuff gets some approval from the R voters, but the rights and laws resulting from the Lege and Courts isn’t helping R voters in the least.
So I see them not as petulant, bad losers. They are embarked, systematically, on destroying the states and country we once knew. The WI Lege has a Super Majority. They are not losing at the moment. They are not going to squander the power they have. They are going to use it, and if you think they have gone as low as possible, they will discover new ways to blow your mind.
Here’s the thing to remember…they aren’t going to back down or just lob some final squibs and stink-bombs. They will escalate to match whatever we win electorally with bigger blows to our foundations. I am talking about all Rs, nationwide. They are not resigned to following the dictates - and ebb/flow of majority rule. They aren’t worried about blowback. They are not going to resign themselves to the back-bench and wait for their fortunes to improve. They are trying to shut down the government, replace and subvert our military, and will be rolling out doomsday options if faced with electoral defeat. They’ve gone too far down this road, all of them.
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As an insufferable cheese snob and also a cheese maker, I must ask, are you kidding?! The cheese fascists like to eat doesn’t have CURDS! It’s either “American Cheese” or it comes in a spray can. Sheesh
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There is plenty of middle ground between acknowledging the threat if fascism and mounting a spirited defense against it, and going around moaning about how the fix is in and we are all DOOMED, DOOMED I TELL YA!!
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The Republican parts of Wisconsin are mainly in the dead end towns and dying rural areas of the state. The only exceptions to that death spiral are the whites only suburbs of Milwaukee. Living in the Madison area for 2 1/2 years was like living in a very nice bubble with a solid economy and a thriving middle class where you could imagine there were decent people around you. Visiting the dying rural areas with their giant Trump flags everywhere was like traveling to a different universe where people were dug into their hatred and the only business was prisons.
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Thanks, just amended my posting.
Nineteen forty-seven. After WW II the reactionary Republican Congress swept in; newest members included Tailgunner Joe McCarthy and Richard Milhous Nixon. Ike held them off for a spell.
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Hello Wisconsin Republican Party Have you completely forgotten about those farmers with nothing pitchforks led by the great Sam Adams beat back those well armed pompous British forces on Bunker Hill ? Seems like the game is on Trumpets Sigh !
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These people underscore the fact that every election for the foreseeable future is existential. That’s a very wearying thought.
It’s all in the Eeyore of the beholder.
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Well maybe if the midwest gave half a shit about this country we might give a shit about them. Our once great industrial might has been stripped away and sold for scrap and that was only possible because they allowed it to happen. Maybe if a few strikes had brought the rat fucks at Ford, GM and Chrysler to their knees and forced them to keep jobs in this country, the midwest would have value. But it doesn’t. They didn’t fight for their own survival, but those of us who are fighting for them have to pretend that it’s not their fault? Please.
As a member of the GOP, Mitt Romney no longer believes in Democracy or the Constitution, either.
Clarity is a wonderful thing in journalism, a thing seriously missing in this article.
¶ 1: "Wisconsin Republicans voted to fire…’’ Which Republicans? Did they have an election I missed?
¶ 2: “The elections commission did not technically put forth her nomination to stay in the job, though all six members agreed she should stay in it.” So all 6 commission members agreed, but didn’t vote on the matter. They didn’t put forth her nomination, but some other group did vote on it. What is going on here? BTW, of the 6 commissioners, what is the party breakdown?
¶ 3: “State Republicans have used circular logic to criticize Wolfe…” Now who are we talking about? WI Republican voters at large? The Republican Party of WI officials? Some piece of the legislature?
¶ 4 on: Now we’re moving on to the governor’s (D) remarks on the subject and a refresher on the legislature’s attempt to remove newly elected Justice Janet Protasiewicz and to control the redistricting map, but not to clarity the main topic.
Raw Story has an article about this event, although their sourcing seems to be an article from Mother Jones, which brings this whole situation into focus.
• The Republicans mentioned in ¶ 1 are “Republican senators…” who party line voted 22-11 to oust Wolfe. Whether they have the authority to do this is in question - an essential point.
• In the normal course of things, the Elections Commission (EC) nominates someone for Administrator of the Elections Commission and then sends that nomination on to the State Senate for confirmation. This is a non-partisan job. Wolfe was unanimously confirmed by the Senate in 2019. Her term was up this past July 1 and the EC agreed to renominate her. For the vote itself, the 3 Democrats on the commission (3 Rs and 3 Ds) abstained fearing the Senate wouldn’t confirm her. The 3 Rs voted to nominate. It is my take that if the EC is left without an Administrator, it would leave the upcoming elections process in serious disarray, while the Senate might only confirm someone who approved of “fixing” the election counts. Where does that leave Wolfe? "The Wisconsin Supreme Court has squarely held that a holdover appointee may legally remain in office following the expiration of the term."
So there you go. Maybe it’s just me, but I need all my ducks in a row.
My advise to Wisconsin Republicans, many of whom I know having grown up, went to college and even worked for the Wisconsin State Senate, is show your dissatisfaction with how elections are administered by NOT VOTING.
God knows Republicans in Wisconsin, that once was the easiest state to register and vote in, have made it harder and harder to vote at every turn. So Republicans in Wisconsin should show how dissatisfied they are, how much they doubt elections, by following the policies their own Party has put into place and refuse to vote.
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Between 1910 and 1960 Milwaukee had three socialist mayors.
ETA. One served from 1916 to 1940.
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(it was right there)
South Dakota beats that;
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Yes. The longest serving was Daniel Hoan, followed by brothers Carl and Frank Zeidler. Carl served only part of a term- died in WWII. They were sometimes called the ‘sewer socialists’ - but did good work for the city.
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I dunno. When I traveled to red Wisconsin (Hayward), cheese curds were on every menu I saw, along with beer-battered walleye.
But maybe the cheese-heads seen at Packers games cut off circulation to the brain.
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