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GOP-held state legislatures in Wisconsin and Michigan are trying to limit new Democratic governors’ powers
“The last election changed the state in a way that apparently the legislature has decided to not accept,” said Evers, who defeated Gov. Scott Walker (R) in November. Evers told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that “everything’s on the table” in terms of attempting to block the GOP plan, including legal action.
The Republicans, who have enjoyed single-party rule in the state for close to a decade, are gearing up this week to pass a suite of changes in an “extraordinary session” — which is where the legislature calls itself back after the session ends — that would, among other things, limit early voting; move the Wisconsin 2020 presidential primary from March, when Democratic turnout will be high, to April (an apparent effort to boost the chances of a conservative judge in that April’s state Supreme Court election); restrict the governor’s ability to make certain appointments; and otherwise hand more power to the state legislature.
In Michigan, where Democrats last month won the governor’s mansion as well as the races for attorney general and secretary of state, Republican lawmakers last week introduced measures that would water down the authority of those positions on campaign finance oversight and other legal matters. All three statewide winners are women, as one Detroit Free Press columnist pointed out.
A spokeswoman for the incoming secretary of state Jocelyn Benson decried the move as “shameful,” the Free Press reported.
The moves in both states have drawn comparisons to Republican efforts
in North Carolina in 2016, when lawmakers pushed through legislation limiting the authority of Roy Cooper, the state’s Democratic governor, after he defeated incumbent Gov. Pat McCrory (R).
Analysis | GOP-held state legislatures in Wisconsin and Michigan are trying to limit new Democratic governors’ powers
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What can I say, good luck to Trump, Trump is going to be impeached, the GOP will have no choice in the Senate. The GOP has played partisan and dirty for a long time and now its finally noticed just how underhanded they are. Two can play at the same game, and I hope the newly elected govenors write executive orders to do away with whatever the GOP puts in before the end of the year.
“The last election changed the state in a way that apparently the legislature has decided to not accept,” said Evers, who defeated Gov. Scott Walker (R) in November. Evers told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that “everything’s on the table” in terms of attempting to block the GOP plan, including legal action.
The Republicans, who have enjoyed single-party rule in the state for close to a decade, are gearing up this week to pass a suite of changes in an “extraordinary session” — which is where the legislature calls itself back after the session ends — that would, among other things, limit early voting; move the Wisconsin 2020 presidential primary from March, when Democratic turnout will be high, to April (an apparent effort to boost the chances of a conservative judge in that April’s state Supreme Court election); restrict the governor’s ability to make certain appointments; and otherwise hand more power to the state legislature.
In Michigan, where Democrats last month won the governor’s mansion as well as the races for attorney general and secretary of state, Republican lawmakers last week introduced measures that would water down the authority of those positions on campaign finance oversight and other legal matters. All three statewide winners are women, as one Detroit Free Press columnist pointed out.
A spokeswoman for the incoming secretary of state Jocelyn Benson decried the move as “shameful,” the Free Press reported.
The moves in both states have drawn comparisons to Republican efforts
in North Carolina in 2016, when lawmakers pushed through legislation limiting the authority of Roy Cooper, the state’s Democratic governor, after he defeated incumbent Gov. Pat McCrory (R).
Analysis | GOP-held state legislatures in Wisconsin and Michigan are trying to limit new Democratic governors’ powers
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What can I say, good luck to Trump, Trump is going to be impeached, the GOP will have no choice in the Senate. The GOP has played partisan and dirty for a long time and now its finally noticed just how underhanded they are. Two can play at the same game, and I hope the newly elected govenors write executive orders to do away with whatever the GOP puts in before the end of the year.