More proof Scott Walker is scum. "Down but not out yet, GOP seeks to hamstring incoming Dem governors"

[brycejones]

Kind of funny we are still waiting for the examples of Democrats doing this.

 

[Engineer]

Scorched earth.....

SMH

I expect the republicans in the KY legislature to do the same if the asshat matt bevin is voted out next year (which I'm not entirely sure he will giving the voting record of this state).

Just remember, what comes around - goes around - and the repubs have no right to bitch about any of it considering what they are doing.

 

[HomerJS]

Kind of funny we are still waiting for the examples of Democrats doing this.

I also tried to find examples of Democrats disenfranchising white Republicans in a thread. Guess what? Zero entries

This is a #oneside

 

[mect]

This is why Trump needs his state run media. How can repubs continue their saving of America if the free press is allowed to report on this type of stuff.

 

[hal2kilo]

Demographics alone won't fix a 52% vote getting only 1/3 of the seats any time soon. What needs to change is banning politicains from making the maps and making gerrymandering illegal and enforceable in a real way. I am sure the USSC will side with the GOP in all of these cases.

Abolish the Senate. I'm serious.

 

[Homerboy]

I looked through the list of proposed legislation, it really didn't look that bad.

As a lifelong citizen of Wisconsin, fuck you. This proposed legislation will have horrible repercussions on my state going forward.
They put more effort into working last night to ram this shit through than they have in all their years in office
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news...y9g16ze73KYB6hu8T933jrpdVzGNkMBeKtwWsHvXgfy0Q

Explain to me how a single item in that list doesn't "look that bad"

[B]Barry Burden[/B]‏Verified account @[B]bcburden[/B] 3h3 hours ago

Of the 140 pages of lame duck legislation being sent to the governor, the only one Republicans actually campaigned on was protecting pre-existing conditions. It did not pass.

 

[nOOky]

As a lifelong citizen of Wisconsin, fuck you. This proposed legislation will have horrible repercussions on my state going forward.
They put more effort into working last night to ram this shit through than they have in all their years in office
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news...y9g16ze73KYB6hu8T933jrpdVzGNkMBeKtwWsHvXgfy0Q

Explain to me how a single item in that list doesn't "look that bad"

I agree. I'm sick of living in the middle of a bunch of deplorable white idiots. What we voted for was the exact opposite of this, hopefully it will be successfully challenged and defeated as I think there may be precedent from North Carolina previously.

 

[Homerboy]

If Trump loses in 2020, this is the exact sort of thing we're going to see happen - only on a much larger, likley much more aggressive scale. And by that time, Trump will have been packing judges in his favor for 4 years. We're all fucked.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Are some of these responsibilities they're changing not defined constitutionally?

 

[Vic]

No, I think we need two healthy parties and do hope the Democrats can come back to good health. Right now they're suffering from dementia.

It wasn't dementia that caused the Democrats to get only 36% of the statehouse seats with 53% of the vote. It was blatant Republican corruption. Which you support.

 

[Jhhnn]

It wasn't dementia that caused the Democrats to get only 36% of the statehouse seats with 53% of the vote. It was blatant Republican corruption. Which you support.

They can't gerrymander state wide offices, so they'll cripple them. The voters? Fuck them!

 

[Thump553]

Another really sad thing is even though the Wisconsin GOP lost the popular vote statewide by 8%, they managed to "win" nearly two-thirds of the legislative seats. Gerrymandering on steroids.

Personally I strongly feel the modern GOP (roughly 1992 and after) is far more un-American than any version of the communist party ever was. And these hypocrites walk around with US flag pins on their lapels and a copy of Constitution in their pocket.

 

[JSt0rm]

Scorched earth.....

SMH

I expect the republicans in the KY legislature to do the same if the asshat matt bevin is voted out next year (which I'm not entirely sure he will giving the voting record of this state).

Just remember, what comes around - goes around - and the repubs have no right to bitch about any of it considering what they are doing.

lol if you think the republicans arent whiny little bitches.

 

[Jhhnn]

Scorched earth.....

SMH

I expect the republicans in the KY legislature to do the same if the asshat matt bevin is voted out next year (which I'm not entirely sure he will giving the voting record of this state).

Just remember, what comes around - goes around - and the repubs have no right to bitch about any of it considering what they are doing.

I seriously doubt Dems will resort to the same despicable measures as the GOP. We still have principles.

 

[UNCjigga]

Too bad those idiots waving "don't tread on me" flags and open carrying firearms are too stupid and gaslit to do anything about real tyranny. Or maybe that's a good thing... wouldn't want these legislators to be worrying about folks thinking "Second Amendment solution".

 

[Sonikku]

I'm beginning to wonder if it's even possible at this point to undo the Republican's minority rule. I'm losing faith in our democracy. Not because Democrats always seem to have fewer seats, but because they do so when they have the most votes.

 

[Thebobo]

What a bunch of low life scums. Jesus would be proud.

 

[zerocool84]

Wisconsin Republicans Approve 82 Scott Walker Appointees In 1 Day

They’ve passed a series of bills in a lame-duck session that amount to nothing less than a brazen partisan power grab, taking responsibilities away from the governor and attorney general and giving them to the heavily gerrymandered Wisconsin Legislature. Walker is expected to sign them in the coming days.

On Tuesday, they also approved 82 Walker appointees to serve across the state government. That’s 82 confirmations in one day, just weeks before a new governor, of a different political party, is set to take office. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has the full list of these appointees here.

The appointees include two members of the board that oversees the state’s public universities. One of those positions has been vacant for more than a year, but Walker just nominated his choice this week. He also made one of his top aides, Ellen Nowak, who is currently Department of Administration secretary, the new head of the state Public Service Commission.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/scott-walker-82-appointees_us_5c084080e4b0844cda4f9959

82 approved in one day. Republicans yet again show their true meaning of a Republican Democracy.

 

[Jhhnn]

And they can't figure out why people call them Fascists... or pretend not to, anyway.

 

[fskimospy]

It wasn't dementia that caused the Democrats to get only 36% of the statehouse seats with 53% of the vote. It was blatant Republican corruption. Which you support.

This is the problem. We now have systems in Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, and to a somewhat lesser extent in Pennsylvania where Republicans have attempted to permanently insulate their power from the will of the voters. When the voters manage to overcome even that they simply try to change the powers of the offices they lost. You cannot have a democratic form of government if all parties involved do not accept when they have lost. David Frum was wrong about a lot of things but as quoted earlier it bears repeating: If conservatives can't get what they want through democracy they won't abandon conservatism - they will abandon democracy.

That's what's happening right now and if Trump loses in 2020 (if he makes it that far) look for it to get much, much worse. I genuinely wonder if he will leave if he loses. I suspect he will claim conspiracy and fraud and test the waters. If conservatives take the bait I bet he tries to stay in office anyway.

 

[K1052]

If it were not apparent already state politicians should be stripped of their power to map districts. Go to non-partisan drawn maps that don't allow these wild (intentionally undemocratic) gaps between the popular vote and seats won.

 

[fskimospy]

If it were not apparent already state politicians should be stripped of their power to map districts. Go to non-partisan drawn maps that don't allow these wild (intentionally undemocratic) gaps between the popular vote and seats won.

Yes, deliberately limiting the representation of people who vote for the 'wrong' party seems to violate the basic principle of one man, one vote. I believe this is a fundamental federal constitutional rights issue and is probably the best way to end this nonsense.

If Republicans want to win power they should have to win the most votes. Imagine how radically different our country would be if that were the case.

 

[Sonikku]

But the constitution doesn't matter any more. Packing the court with the most partisan hacks available to rubber stamp the Republican agenda will bless these behaviors.

 

[sportage]

This stuff never works and will backfire.
Democrats need to understand that republicans play nasty. They always have.
God forbid Richard Nixon should be in power with todays republican congress.
Old tricky dick would never have resigned, or needed to.

Democrats "could" play nasty too. And it looks like that may be their only option.
And soon enough we will be like the Brits, with fist fighting in parliament.
It won't matter about ones political background or fresh ideas as a candidate, all that will matter is can he or she throw a hard right punch.
And with the uptick in electing women into office, we might see a lot of hair pulling and cat fights.
Hmmmm. Is this necessarily a bad thing?

 

[Sonikku]

This stuff never works and will backfire.
Democrats need to understand that republicans play nasty. They always have.
God forbid Richard Nixon should be in power with todays republican congress.
Old tricky dick would never have resigned, or needed to.

Democrats "could" play nasty too. And it looks like that may be their only option.
And soon enough we will be like the Brits, with fist fighting in parliament.
It won't matter about ones political background or fresh ideas as a candidate, all that will matter is can he or she throw a hard right punch.
And with the uptick in electing women into office, we might see a lot of hair pulling and cat fights.
Hmmmm. Is this necessarily a bad thing?

For those that long for a return to civil discourse that loathe to see the direction our country is headed? Yeah, kinda.