The Wisconsin legislature will not reconvene until after the November election, when the GOP will pick up between two and five seats.
This guy will never be seated.
Plus, his district has been redistricted out.
His election means less than nothing.
Okay, thought that the congress had adjourned for summer and would not reconviene until after election.
Didn’t know the district had been completely redistricted out of existence too.
You are right, talk about your meaningless victory.. makes you wonder why anyone would even spend the energy or money to run.
You are correct that the senate is unlikely to reconvee until January, by which time the GOP will have retaken the majority (with a pickup of at least 2 seats among the half of the senate seats up for election in November).
But it is not correct to say that the Democrat Lehman (assuming that his lead holds) will never be seated. He was elected to serve out the remainder of the term, which expires after the November 2014 elections. Whoever runs for the Republicans in that senate district in November 2014 (maybe a Wanggaard comeback) is sure to win, given that the district was redrawn to exclude the City of Racine and to replace it with heavily Republican rural and suburban precincts from Racine and Kenosha Counties, but Lehman will hold the seat until January 2015 .
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This is why I read FR!
Somebody’s always got the straight info...
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