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Related: About this forumIncredible! Now Scott Walker Wants to Abolish a Statewide Elected Office
Incredible! Now Scott Walker Wants to Abolish a Statewide Elected OfficeThe antidemocratic governor wants to eliminate the Office of State Treasurer, and with it another potential check and balance on his authority.
By John Nichols YESTERDAY 3:44 PM
No governor in the United States has been so resolutely determined to structurally diminish democracy as Scott Walker.
Just last week, the hyper-partisan governor of Wisconsin was called out by a judge he had appointed for literally refusing to let Wisconsinites vote for their elected representatives. The governors rationale for failing to call special elections to fill vacant state legislative seats was so absurd that Dane County Circuit Judge Josann Reynolds dismissed it as inconsistent, incompatible and irreconcilable.
In ordering Walker to call the special elections for vacant State Assembly and State Senate seats, Judge Reynolds saw through the manufactured explanations for blocking elections that Republicans might lose and simply declared, To state the obvious, if the plaintiffs have a right to vote for their representatives, they must have an election to do so.
Logic and the law tripped Walker up and, thankfully, there was a judge to check and balance the governors antidemocratic impulses.
But sometimes the voters must take charge of checking and balancing gubernatorial power grabs.
https://www.thenation.com/article/incredible-now-scott-walker-wants-to-abolish-a-statewide-elected-office/
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Incredible! Now Scott Walker Wants to Abolish a Statewide Elected Office (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Mar 2018
OP
OMG. They're all turning into little dictators (with little hands, no doubt). nt
Honeycombe8
Mar 2018
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Demovictory9
(33,392 posts)1. Why doesn't he just make himself king?
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)3. Fascist dictators
Totally what the republicans are becoming in Trump's Amerika!
jodymarie aimee
(3,975 posts)4. he already has
8 years of this fuck and his henchmen.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,011 posts)9. When can you all vote him out?n/t
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)2. Not another redumbliCON dictator!
Who do these A-holes think they are?
lastlib
(24,551 posts)6. They think that they are anointed by God.
Which tells me that their God gave them small brains, along with small penile fixtures.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)10. Maybe anointed by Satan or the Anti-Christ.
LakeArenal
(29,648 posts)5. I hate Wanker as much as anybody...
And lord knows I dont stand with him in any way.
However, they have been talking about eliminating that office since Charles Smith was treasurer. No has done it. But its been on the table a long time.
BigmanPigman
(52,133 posts)7. Does this fucker ever take "NO" for an answer?
What was his childhood like I wonder?
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)8. OMG. They're all turning into little dictators (with little hands, no doubt). nt