Posted on 12/16/2018 4:56:11 AM PST by SMGFan
(Reuters) - Outgoing Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker on Friday signed legislation that will weaken the powers of his newly elected Democratic successor, dismissing critics who called the move a last-minute partisan power grab.
Democrats said the legislation and a similar set of pending measures in Michigan undermine the results of the Nov. 6 elections, when they captured the governorship in both states for the first time in eight years. The efforts take a page out of the playbook of North Carolina Republicans, who two years ago acted to limit the power of the incoming Democratic governor.
Republicans in both Wisconsin and Michigan, who will maintain their legislative majorities next year, have defended the moves as good-faith efforts to ensure that the legislative and executive branches remain equals.
Wisconsin Governor-elect Tony Evers, who will take office Jan. 7, has threatened legal action and said on Friday he will be “reviewing our options.”
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I love it!
He can if voter fraud can be eliminated in both states
Excellent!
Yay! Great Sunday morning news.
Thanks to corrupt GOP sisters in robes and an overwhelming turnout of public employees in off-year elections, Pennsylvania's supreme court came to be dominated by Democrats who decided they, not the legislature, would have the power to draw congressional districts. Nobody complained then about an obvious power grab.
Both went back towards the Democrats in 2018, along with Pennsylvania. But still, with the right Democrat to energize the President's base then there is no reason why he can't take those states again.
Illegal and unconstitutional what was done in PA, period.
But when a lame duck president creates a witch hunt for his successor, that’s just fine.
Great news! More winning, please.
JoMa
To the omnipresent and anonymous critics I ask: how can weakening one’s own office be a ‘power grab?’ If anything it’s a release of power.
That’s a mighty big “if”.
Here in Michigan, we have had GOP control of both houses, the governorship, Secretary of State, and Attorney General for some time now. Two years ago, during the infamous recount for President, Wayne County was forced to admit that they had made serious “mistakes” in about 40% of their precincts. They had tallied way more votes than they had ballots in their ballot boxes (its anyone’s guess which party was blessed with those votes).
Wayne County has been getting away with this crap for decades. But when caught red-handed, nothing was done. Very, very little, if anything at all, was even mentioned by elected Republicans
Evers winning doesn't mean we've turned into a blue state. He only won by 29,227 votes with 52,941 votes going to "other". If you look at the county-by-county results, he only won 19 of the 72 counties. But two of those were Dane(Madison) and Milwaukee - heavy dummycrat counties.
And that is where the Democrats will focus their attention if they're smart. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down congressional districts because they were gerrymandered to benefit Republicans. A court did the same in North Carolina, though that doesn't take effect until the 2020 election. If the Democrats try the same in Wisconsin and Michigan and other states, and if they are successful there as well, then they could switch control of legislatures prior to the 2020 census and also redraw congressional districts.
A REPUBLICAN......................
.............playing POLITICS????????
Well, I never.
Nice.
At the federal level, the Demonrats want to get “rid” of gerrymandering so they can institute ‘independent redistricting boards’ that inevitably draw Demonrat majority districts (see Arizona, which should have a 7R-2D delegation has a 5D-4R one thanks to an “independent board.”). Even more obscene in California where their “independent” board has all but wiped out every Republican officeholder (well, that and epic-level voter fraud).
Rodents in my state of TN — Dem gerrymandered until 2012, never complained once until the GOP finally got control decades after a majority of residents were voting GOP but still getting only a minority of seats, and now they’re saying how terrible it is that the GOP has supermajorities (which ironically were achieved under Dem lines !) and there should be an ‘independent’ board to give them back control.
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