Posted on 04/05/2023 6:21:56 AM PDT by cotton1706
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican state Rep. Dan Knodl defeated a Democratic attorney to win an open Senate seat in Tuesday’s special election, creating a GOP supermajority in the chamber that could be used to impeach Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and other office holders.
Knodl defeated Jodi Habush Sinykin in the 8th District race. The seat represents Milwaukee’s northern suburbs and has leaned red for years. It came open after longtime Republican incumbent Alberta Darling decided to retire in November. Evers called a special election to fill the position.
Knodl’s victory gives Senate Republicans 22 votes in the 33-seat chamber. That’s enough to override a gubernatorial veto in that house. A successful override takes a two-thirds vote in the Senate and Assembly, however, and Assembly Republicans remain two seats shy of the 66 they need.
Knodl’s win also gives Senate Republicans enough votes to convict a civil officer, including the governor, other constitutional officers such as the attorney general and judges in impeachment trials. Knodl has said he probably would not support an attempt to impeach Evers.
The state constitution says civil officers can be impeached, including the governor, lieutenant governor and judges. A February analysis from the Legislative Reference Bureau concluded that other constitutional officers such as the attorney general and the state schools superintendent can be impeached as well.
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Kick start the impeachment machine! Time for some payback.
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get going, in case you haven't noticed the Dems are at war with Republicans.
Some good news
Kick start the impeachment machine! Time for some payback.
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Audit the Supreme Court election .
Impeach the newly elected State Supreme Ct judge.
Take the low road like the democrats do and make something up. Just like they’re doing in Manhattan
They should start with that democrat supreme court judge elected last night.
This seems to be at odds with the abortion harridan winning the WI Supreme Court seat. How did Republicans manage this?
Yay!!!!!
Anyone know how the Supreme Court justice race went?
Something does not compute! They can win a supermajority in the legislature, but they can’t win a State Supreme court seat? They lost by a lot in that one!
This was a red leaning district. The WI Supreme Ct. race was a statewide election, apples and oranges.
Is that a sarcastic rhetorical question?
No, serious question. My question is about the super majority the GOP won, not just this seat. If we can win a supermajority in this state, we should be able to win a state-wide election, no?
High water mark. They also elected a Soros candidate to the Supreme Court.
Local candidate vs statewide candidate.
Interesting...
Could impeach ANYONE if this is true...
Hard to see how a state with SUPERMAJORITY in Senate, and NEAR supermajority in house just elected a radical leftist statewide....
Yet, here we are.
With all the had-wringing being done by the NeverTrumpers on FR over the loss of the Wisconsin Supreme Court...none of them are on here trumpeting the SUPERMAJORITY in the Wisconsin Legislature.
Hmmm...isn’t that odd?
Maybe for the same reason a state like WV can vote 70% for Trump, then turn around and elect a senator who is opposed to the Trump agenda most of the time. Makes no sense.
Should... but clearly something is not smelling fresh in WI right now.
Super Majority in Senate.
Near Super Majority in the Assembly...
Yet 45-55 loss in a statewide race?
Was the conservative candidate that bad? Or was something else at play.. because a 10 point loss doesn’t add up
But the dems control the state supreme court now, so anything this super-majority does will be deemed “unconstitutional”.
See how that works?
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