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Related: About this forumThis is what the Capital Times has to say about sweet robin vos and the Supreme Court in Wisconsin.
I once read a LONG time ago the Vos owned a popcorn company somewhere in WI. I would love
to send him back home to pop his popcorn!!
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Editorial | Robin Vos abuses his own power to undermine Supreme Court
https://captimes.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-robin-vos-abuses-his-own-power-to-undermine-supreme-court/article_5955bd79-1cf4-5af3-8547-a8ce15230e9e.html
Cap Times editorial
8 hrs ago
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is a scared and desperate man. He knows that the Republican legislative majorities that allow him to remain in power are not based on popular support, but rather on the radical gerrymandering of the districts that elect members of the state Assembly and Senate. Thats why he is threatening to impeach newly elected state Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz.
Elected with a landslide majority in April, Justice Protasiewicz has joined a new liberal majority on the high court that recognizes its duty to promote both the rule of law and representative democracy in Wisconsin. That terrifies Vos because, if Wisconsin has fair maps and fair elections, he is fairly certain to be out of a job>
.....................In a radio interview last week, he claimed that, You cannot have a judge who said, you know, the maps are rigged because she bought into the argument that that's why we're winning elections, not the quality of our candidates, and then she sits on that trial acting like she's gonna listen and hear both sides fairly that just can't happen.
The problem with Vos logic is that Justice Protasiewicz did nothing wrong. She simply stated a fact. The maps are rigged. Thats been recognized by analysts in Wisconsin and nationally. Indeed, research by Chris Warshaw, an associate professor of political science at George Washington University, has established that the Assembly maps that Republicans drew in 2011 and that have kept Vos in power were, according to Wisconsin Watch reporting of Warshaws data, the most skewed toward Republicans in the country over the next five elections.
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This is what the Capital Times has to say about sweet robin vos and the Supreme Court in Wisconsin. (Original Post)
riversedge
Aug 2023
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niyad
(122,403 posts)1. Pity that his reckless behaviour during the pandemic did not do him in.
AllBlue
(79 posts)2. It's still not too late
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niyad
(122,403 posts)3. Ahhh, gee, thanks for the smile!
StClone
(11,869 posts)4. Voss is two-for-two and not the only one...
...that holds office via gerrymandering and avoided demise. But, we can make it at least one out of two!