Incredible! Now Scott Walker Wants to Abolish a Statewide Elected Office [View all]

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Incredible! Now Scott Walker Wants to Abolish a Statewide Elected Office
The antidemocratic governor wants to eliminate the Office of State Treasurer, and with it another potential check and balance on his authority.
By John Nichols YESTERDAY 3:44 PM

No governor in the United States has been so resolutely determined to structurally diminish democracy as Scott Walker.

Just last week, the hyper-partisan governor of Wisconsin was called out by a judge he had appointed for literally refusing to let Wisconsinites vote for their elected representatives. The governor’s rationale for failing to call special elections to fill vacant state legislative seats was so absurd that Dane County Circuit Judge Josann Reynolds dismissed it as “inconsistent, incompatible and irreconcilable.”

In ordering Walker to call the special elections for vacant State Assembly and State Senate seats, Judge Reynolds saw through the manufactured explanations for blocking elections that Republicans might lose and simply declared, “To state the obvious, if the plaintiffs have a right to vote for their representatives, they must have an election to do so.”

Logic and the law tripped Walker up and, thankfully, there was a judge to check and balance the governor’s antidemocratic impulses.

But sometimes the voters must take charge of checking and balancing gubernatorial power grabs.


https://www.thenation.com/article/incredible-now-scott-walker-wants-to-abolish-a-statewide-elected-office/