Posted on 04/03/2023 3:54:14 AM PDT by cotton1706
MADISON, Wis. — A special election to fill an open Wisconsin Senate seat will determine whether Republicans gain a supermajority that would allow them to impeach Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and other office holders as well as move the GOP a step closer to overriding gubernatorial vetoes.
Voters on Tuesday will pick Democrat Jodi Habush Sinykin or Republican state Rep. Dan Knodl to represent Milwaukee's northern suburbs. The seat has been under Republican control for decades but came open in November after longtime incumbent Alberta Darling chose to retire after 30 years in the Senate. Evers scheduled a special election to fill the position to coincide with the state's spring Supreme Court election.
The stakes are huge. A Knodl win would give Republicans 22 votes in the chamber, enough to override gubernatorial vetoes if the state Assembly also votes to do so and enough to convict civil officers in impeachment trials.
Knodl denied accusations from Habush Sinykin that he would vote to impeach Evers if elected. He said in an email to The Associated Press that he has had success working with the governor.
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Wisconsin FReepers tell us about these two candidates and the district. I heard there is a Supreme Court elections, too...tell us about the candidates. Thanks.
Stop it, you kill me!
These are Republicans you are talking about.
Is a supermajority the same as a quorum, which is needed to start a session to do business? The last time the GOP got mean in Wisconsin, all the Dems ran away to Illinois.
Free election commercials for the DNC.
Supreme Court election is the most important one - if the far left radical gal wins the seat, then everything that happened since Doyal can be returned to the same condition when Doyal was governor and people fled the high property taxes for places with lower taxes like California - really.
She wins and Act 10 will return the Teachers Unions as rate setters (not the legislature) for property taxes. Business will close, and people will leave the state en mass again.
It’s Wisconsin. The libs have the fix in place.
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