Republican leg you mena.
Well, here’s a news article
Seems it was done so as not to allow Heidi to choose her own replacement had she run for and been elected Governor in 2016, she was reportedly considering it. The bill’s sponsor says that was only a secondary factor but I don’t buy that.
I did mean Republican legislature; it’s late and I’m tired.
They could have passed a law so that there must be a special election within 95 days or whatever but still permit the governor to appoint a temporary replacement.
Frankly, a newly elected governor appointing his or her replacement is not as offensive to me as the lame-duck governor making the appointment the second that the governor-elect resigns the Senate seat in order to take the oath of office as governor. That’s what Alaska RAT Gov. Tony Knowles was planning on doing when Sen. Frank Murkowski was elected governor. The AK GOP legislature passed a law, over Knowles’s veto, that provided that 30 days must pass after a Senator has resigned before a governor may appoint the replacement, and I think that it’s a good model for other states (although I would shorten the period to 5 days, which gives a Senstor that is elected governor the ability to resign a couple of days before being sworn in as governor and still be able to name the new senator.