Wasn’t it not too long ago that a legislature stripped a Republican governor of the authority to appoint a replacement US senator? And then, after the new governor, a Democrat, was elected, they gave the power back to him.
> Wasn’t it not too long ago that a legislature stripped a
> Republican governor of the authority to appoint a
> replacement US senator? And then, after the new governor, a
> Democrat, was elected, they gave the power back to him.
Yep. Happened in Massachusetts.
Mitt Romney was the governor. Ted Kennedy had died. They didn’t want Republican Romeny appointing even a token RINO for the few short months up to an election.
Scott Brown, a token RINO, won and later lost to Chief Fauxcahauntus, aka Lizardbreath Warren.
When Devil Patrick (Communist) was elected governor of Massachusetts, the legislature passed a new law allowing the governor once again to appoint vacant Senate seats.
Yep, good ol MA took the appointment power away from Mitt Romney.