The state of Wisconsin has decided that they
don't need elected officials to run the state.
Scott Walker, the Republican governor in the
state of Wisconsin, has decided that he is
not going to hold special elections to fill
two vacant state seats in the state legislature.
Why?
Because he understands that Republicans across
the country are losing special elections at
an alarming rate, and in fact, Republicans
actually lost one in Wisconsin back in January,
so Scott Walker, being a faithful little Republican
stooge, decides that we're just not going
to have special elections anymore.
I know certain people in the state of Wisconsin
are now without a representative in the state
government, but oh well.
We can't risk a Democrat winning that election,
so we're just not going to have that election.
Well, now Scott Walker has found himself on
the wrong end of a lawsuit brought by Eric
Holder, the former attorney general of the
United States, and several Democrats serving
in the state legislature.
They want Scott Walker to uphold the state
constitution and have elections when there
are open seats.
That's the rule, but Scott Walker is so terrified
about losing those seats that he decided screw
it, we're going to get rid of democracy in
the state of Wisconsin.
I'm so terrified that we're going to lose
power, and that God forbid people might actually
be represented by people who understand what
they want, that we're just not going to do
it, so I guess that's just the new Republican
thing now.
If they can't keep you from voting with their
voter ID laws and voter roll purges, they'll
just get rid of elections altogether, because
whatever it takes to keep Democrats out of
office, right?
I'm sure that's what the Koch brothers, who
have bankrolled Scott Walker's entire career,
I'm sure that that's what they want, and other
Republicans around the country are paying
attention to this.
Not that long ago, the state of Alabama, following
the election of Doug Jones to the US Senate,
voted against ever having special elections,
so now if there's an opening, the Republican
governor of that state'll just get to appoint
it.
The people no longer have a say, and they're
trying to do the same thing in Wisconsin right
now, and if it works there like it works in
Alabama, we're going to see this popping up
in states all over this country.
Republicans have gotten their butts handed
to them in special elections for the last
12 months, and there is no end in sight for
that, and that's why cowards like Scott Walker
are doing everything that they can to prevent
any more of these special elections from taking
place.
It's illegal.
It's disgusting.
It's immoral, but that is exactly what we've
come to expect from Republican leaders.
