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| Wisconsin governor-elect Tony Evers and Lieutenant governor-elect Mandela Barnes vow to fight Republicans in the state legislature if they try to limit executive branch powers. |
The 41st President of the United States is lying at the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. His service will be on Wednesday. Donald J. Trump and the former presidents will be in attendance.
Dirty ass lawmakers Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell join Mike Pence in celebrating the life of Bush.
Today, the party continues to be more divisive towards people of color, progressives and Americans who don't worship a Christian god.
Well, Wisconsin, Michigan and Kansas are scrambling to limit the powers of the incoming Democratic governors.
Gov-elect Tony Evers says he will "take any steps possible" to prevent the GOP plans from happening. The lawmakers in Madison are hoping that in a lame duck session are hoping to weaken authority and then stall progress. They want to weaken Evers so they can use this as an election issue.
Evers said the efforts by the GOP-led legislatures are an "attempt to change the results of the gubernatorial election."
Republican legislative leaders say the plan will re-balance power between the legislative and executive branches --- a dynamic they say was tipped in Scott Walker's favor by their own action. In the 2010 election, the party gained full control of state government.
Evers decried the lame-duck session — the first in Wisconsin in eight years — as an embarrassment and an attempt to invalidate the results of the November election, in which Democrats won every constitutional office, including governor and attorney general.
He vowed to fight it, saying lawsuits were being explored, and called on the people of Wisconsin to contact their legislators even as the bills were speeding through. The measures were only made public late Friday.
"It goes to the heart of what democracy is all about," Evers said at a Sunday news conference held at a Milwaukee law firm. "I think it's the wrong message, I think it is an embarrassment for the state and I think we can stop it."
He also held out hope Walker might stop the bills, but Walker has not voiced any opposition to date.
"His legacy will be tied to this," Evers said of Walker.
The last lame-duck session in Wisconsin was eight years ago, just before Walker took office, when Democrats tried unsuccessfully to approve union contracts.
This year's proposals are wide-ranging and would affect everything in the state from transportation funding to carrying firearms in the state Capitol to changing an election date. Republicans want to move the 2020 presidential primary, when Democratic turnout is expected to be high, so it won't be on the same date as an April election when Walker-appointed Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly is on the ballot.
Moving the primary comes with a cost of about $7 million. Holding it in March, between state elections in February and April, would be logistically impossible, 60 of 72 Wisconsin county election officials said in a letter of opposition. The state Elections Commission was scheduled to discuss the proposal at a meeting Monday along with another one limiting early voting to no more than two weeks before an election.
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| On his way out, Scott Walker is trying to eliminate early voting days, portions of the state mandates of the Affordable Care Act and establish a permanent hold on Republican control. |
Like North Carolina, the Republicans in the state house are determined to undermine Democratic govenrors.
As a new batch of governors come into the state house, I still question how three deeply unpopular Republicans managed to pull off wins. In Florida, Georgia and Ohio, it was clear, turnout was high. However, the popular vote went to the Democrats but the state went to Republicans. I believe there is shady shit going on at the polls.
The race for a congressional district in North Carolina is being questioned by state and federal investigators. There are absentee ballots missing and their coming from mostly areas where Black turnout would normally favor Democrats. Republican Mark Harris is now under question by the state election board for allegedly allowing it to happen.
So much bullshit and the junk food media isn't talking about it.
Yet, we hear the sexism about how Hillary Clinton shouldn't run for president in 2020.
We hear the sexist talk about Nancy Pelosi being the Speaker of the House again. The right sure loves to see infighting from the Democrats.
The right is calling Michelle Obama a man and saying she is was never a distinguished First Lady like Melania Trump. Obama writes a book about how to motivate Americans and the right goes ape shit.
The right attacks Ilhan Omar for wearing a scarf over head. They want Republicans to reinforce a rule requiring lawmakers to remove hats and hair attire. The right calls her anti-Semitic and supporter of the Islamic State without knowing the facts. They believe she is a secret terrorist because she is critical of Israeli war crimes against humanity.
This party even goes after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for advocating the Green New Deal.
Mike Huckabee, the former two time failed presidential candidate mocked her for saying it could be bigger than the "moon landing." Ocasio-Cortez clapped back. We'll cover this shortly.
Republicans aren't the party of diversity. They are the party of the White man. Notice that many prominent Republicans are dying faster than Democrats.