• brndnpink@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Yep. Wisconsinite here (and a teacher as well). I have mixed feelings on this. I’d be fuming if a Republican governor pulled something like this and I generally think it’s a power governors shouldn’t have. However, when held against the context of the way GOP has operated within the letter of the law to entrench themselves within Wisconsin politics, I’m all for Democrats using tactics like this. GOP will use them and it’s unfair for everyone to expect Dems to take the high road at the expense of our policy priorities.

    In my perfect world I’d get rid of both this power and the GOP gerrymander in Wisconsin

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      1 year ago

      It seems like the best response to Republican gerrymandering to use the overly broad powers of the veto over there to gut their agenda as best you can as a Democratic governor. People should expect and want their political representatives to do everything with the power they have to enact the ideology they claim to represent.

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        1 year ago

        That’s a really good point. With stupid electoral maps the game is already rigged, the Governor is just playing it like anyone.

        US politics is so fucked up.