It’s all about staying in power at all costs, so of course he and his cronies have to reach into their unethical bag of tricks.

for 8 years. The GOP runs all branches of the state government and they have pushed through a lot of the same laws locally that the GOP wants to pass nationally. It has been painful to experience. Gerrymandering, voter ID laws, stoking of rural resentment, Koch money have allowed the GOP to reign supreme here and there is no end in sight.

There and Kansas. "Let's see what we can do and what we can get away with it, and if it works we go national."

They have their opinions, and their opinions always trump rational analysis, scientific evidence, or other credible sources that cast doubt on their biases. One of their key opinions -- retrieved from Reaganism -- is that bad-mouthing and wrecking government is good for their careers and their party, if not for the populace.

The most discouraging thing to me is the huge rise in young conservatives.
They're polluting the body politic!
Ryan is one of them.
How does a 16 year old long for the good old days?!?!?!?

demonstrated walker regularly used to coordinate with.

but dems wisconsinites ignore it and even worse, allow UW to endorse 5 limbaugh stations and 3 hannity stations without complaint.

walker and the wisc gop can't do shit without talk radio and wisc talk radio would fall apart if dem started shaming UW for that - their advertisers would flee.

tho the koch bros live elsewhere, koch inc has a huge footprint in wis.

assprint on many states. I won't call it a footprint, for that would mean they actually set foot in Wisconsin. They just load up a couple of semi-trucks with cash and ship it there. Their assprint appears everywhere their fat, fascist asses want to sit on Democracy.

One thing that must be done when Democrats are back in control is to get rid of that horrid 'Citizens United' decision the Supreme Whores saddled this country with. "Corporations are people" my ass!

Alabama voted the other day to not have special elections. It looks like Roy Moore and Doug Jones made them re-think filling seats. Instead the legislature would pick a replacement. So much for we the people having a say.

Yes, we know why they're changing their process for filling vacancies. But it's not only red states that don't have special elections.

but i can see why a Special Election is sometimes redundant and an appointment would be better for everyone. There should be cut-off. If, for a 4-year term you die 3 months in... there should be a SE. But if you die 3 months from your term ending, shouldn't the governor be able to just appoint someone to the last 3 months?

Given the GOP's current batting average in special elections.

-- Mal

Devious or Machiavellian maybe

But, it won't matter if only Republicans count the votes. We need to get a handle on election integrity to reverse what has happened in WI and elsewhere.

without refusing to hold them.

they cheat and have locked up the entire state. I don't believe we have had one fair and honest election in 8 years. Did you not hear about our Recall...2 mil signatures....I did that in the freezing cold each day.

It was cold that year, too!!!

they are toast, and they know it, but they're going to drag the whole thing out for as LONG as possible.

and they're going to create as many casualties as they can and take them right down with them.

just as sure as shit runs downhill!

We will be watching like a hawk making sure that the voters vote fairly, and not some black box voting machine (I will personally bring my AR-15 and blast any black box machines so they have to vote on paper!)

After, stop by our place..

It makes me want to vomit. Walker and the Republicans in Wisconsin have been trampling citizens rights for the past 8 years. I live in NJ but followed with astonishment how quickly Walker and his crew dismantled democracy in Wisconsin. The Right to Work scam dismantling unions, legislative votes taken in the middle of the night without democratic members being notified and barring the public from the State House are just a few of Walker and his minions actions. Now Foxx Conn maybe the biggest con on the people of Wisconsin with its grotesque state tax abatements. If the people of Wisconsin don’t throw these bums to the street then they deserve what they get.

For the 100000s of people who protested his election and destruction of unions Schools, nursing and the tens of thousands that stood in the Wisconsin cold collecting signatures for the recall, for the clever prank that exposed the involvement of the Koch money, for those who took them to court over gerrymandering our system, I thank you for your rude characterization of Wisconsin and the people I know. NOT..

not to mention former standiuts like Michelle Bachman and Tommy Thompson and who could forget Sen. Joseph McCarthy and now Donald Trump. Save me your protestations, Wisconsin voters have given us some of the most destructive, mean-spirited politicians of the modern era. Paul Wellstone and Russ Feingold were the last of the great Wisconsin politicians who championed the working people. Wisconsin needs to do more to rid this country of the likes of Paul Ryan and Sen. Johnson. Had Hillary won Wisconsin then we wouldn’t be in this mess so I don’t want to hear about all you have done to try and organize against republicans, it isn’t enough. Do more!!

Christieass was elected twice.

Michelle Bachman..? You don't even know who you are talking about. What's a standiuts anyway?

You want to vent go somewhere else. We don't hold it against good hearted Dems in any state that have been railroaded by Rep. bullies.

We aren't your anger management class.

Lectures are not what we need. We know what we need and the battle that faces us at midterms.

Support goes a long way for our sanity.

standouts. Why do you take such commentary personally? I can’t stand Christie and he was the least popular governor in the country when he recently left office, the people of NJ saw him for the creep he was. The point is that Christie couldn’t get elected dog catcher now. NJ certainly has many problems but we recognize a fraud when we see one and vote them out. If more people in your state were angry then maybe Ryan would be gone before he takes away Medicare, soc sec etc. and maybe more politicians like Feingold and Wellstone would be elected. Are you seriously proud of the electoral history of your state? I guess calling me out on an obvious typo makes you feel better. Let’s all stand around in a circle to hold hands and hope Trump isn’t elected again is the attitude that guarantees him A second term. I’m not angry at you, I’m angry at the people in your state who don’t know better. If that anger doesn’t manifest itself in Dems flocking to the polls then we are all doomed. Get mad at them, not me.

You bet I take it personally and seriously.. Seriously as hell. We just don't need your moral high ground. We don't need you telling us how, when, where to be angry or anything else. You call us Fricken Cheeseheads ( and if you meant Cheeseheads pejoratively we are proud to be cheeseheads). That we deserve this government. That somehow we are handholding and not taking any action....

Yes, pointing out your inaccuracies did make me feel better, not to mention I am correct. Just as you dumping your attitude on Wisconsin Democrats makes you feel better. Like I said before, we aren't your anger management class.

Being angry at you and being angry at the political climate are not mutually exclusive. If you are trying to reach the " people in(Wisconsin) who don't know better" and think DU is that place.....then you are again mistaken.

If you can't bring anything more positive to DU, then I think you just may be in the wrong place.

So, your reaction to years of being a political punchline is to make some other state a political punchline.

Good luck on DU.. You seem to have nothing positive to offer.

Eat shit, douchebag. Nobody on DU voted for Ryan, Johnson, Walker, Clarke, or Trump. Most weren't around when Joe McCarthy was, and although Tommy Thompson did get some crossover votes, I doubt more than a handful if any DUers voted for him. Wellstone and Bachman were/are from MINNESOTA, genius. But that's still just flyover land right, so who cares? And last of the great Wisconsin politicians who championed working people... hm... see Baldwin, Tammy (D), US Senator from Wisconsin. She's up for re-election and is a reliable liberal Democratic vote in the Senate. It would be nice to win that chamber back in '18 so you might consider throwing her a few bucks. I know I have.

Berating the entire populace of a state doesn't help, and neither do you. Now excuse me while I head down to the bowling alley to drink beer with my buddies while we bowl and bitch about the Packers' crappy season.

Thanks much..

Although I don't agree with her on a few things, I do know she is fighting for "us".

'Pepsidog's' post was brutally ignorant. I live in Michigan and Snyder is just Walker light. We couldn't even get his sorry ass out of here after the Flint water crisis. He's a total pos. Sigh.....gonna be a long 9 months until mid terms

I was feeling pretty bruised by his crap.. Thanks.

Hard to not get defensive while supposedly on a think alike site such as du.

You say you "followed" how our state has been dismantled by the Koch Bros, Walker, etc., etc. Try walking a day in our lives before you characterize us all of getting "the government they deserve". You don't think we have and are continuing to resist? Geesh!

I'm a member of du for support and hope....not for negativity.

those shoes. But NJ will course correct when it makes a mistake. I to come to DU for sanity and to vent when necessary so don’t take things personally. It seems like your state is similar to Pa. where there is a huge divide between rural and city voters. Hope it comes back to the fold and votes Dem in 2018 and 2020.

No offense intended, none taken.....

Michelle Bachman, indeed...

it was my favorite pit stop as a GI brat....but I am disgusted with what has happened there, and it has dropped off my retirement radar

special election.... now Governor will appoint all.

Not some snake-oil salesman that calls themselves a Republican.

I'll be working for whoever is the Democratic Party nominee,,,,,, I do hope you are right.

I'm not a Russian troll. I'm as American as you and me.

"Comrade" is a greeting used by people with a common cause,,, has nothing to do with Russia.......

We don't want to think that future is coming but it does help relieve a bit of the stress.

Welcome also, Weed Man.

Add another dimension to the narrative about Republicans fixing elections, throwing opponents in jail.

Including such clearly deep red states like California, New York, Minnesota, Hawaii and Maryland. Running a special election isn't free.

Every Wisconsin official that have a R next to their name, whether it be a judge, a official, a senator, a governor, or even a congressperson needs to be sued out of the office and permanently humiliated so much that no Republican will be running in 2020.

takeover strategies. Scutt Walker is a dim bulb who has prospered due to effectively unlimited outside money, the comically inept Democratic Party of Wisconsin, and a general wave of white resentment that has swept over the Rust Belt. He knows ONLY ambition, and thus far has been able to mostly win (the 2016 Republican primary notwithstanding) by employing his only trick, the politics of personal resentment. Now he is indeed crapping his pants, as are his far-right puppet masters, at the prospect that he could lose in 2018 if the Democrats are able to actually field a viable candidate- i.e. one with qualifications beyond having a pulse and the ability to fog a mirror.

These are the "Deep South of decades ago" actions.

I guess they can somehow rationalize by telling themselves they're disenfranchising WI citizens holus-bolus, and not along racial lines.

the law.


https://www.lawserver.com/law/state/wisconsin/wi-laws/wisconsin_laws_8-50


It's confusing, but as I read it, "no special election may be held after February 1 preceding the spring election unless it is held on the same day as the spring election." In addition, the date of a special election cannot be less than 62 days out from when the order announcing the special election is issued. The two vacancies that are at issue here occurred on or around December 31, 2017, and even if a special election announcement had been issued on January 1, 2018, the earliest date for the special election would have been 62 days out, or around March 1. But March 1 is after February 1, so the special election would then have to be held with the spring election, which is in early April.

Maybe Walker is pulling a fast one here, but it seems like the statute simply may be controlling the schedule.

eom

all the people who voted for him are so happy with that dopey little pos.

How do they like their republican dictator now I wonder?

is in Wisconsin.. with all the fascists in charge?

working

In his own way he is worse than Trump.

beware the abuse of power