Reported in GOP senators vote in wee hours to pass lame-duck bill curtailing powers of governor, attorney general. (Wisconsin State Journal, 12/5/2018)
Related reading:
Wisconsin Republicans Make Unprecedented Power Grab. The People Push Back. (The Progressive, 12/54/2018)
With bought and paid for chickenshit friends like this, who needs enemies? When Capitol police blocked a crowd of citizens surging toward the doors of the Joint Finance Committee hearing room shortly before the hearing began, people banged on the doors and chanted “Respect our vote!”
“This isn’t Russia!” one protester shouted, as a Capitol police officer pushed him back and locked the door. “This isn’t Russia!” one protester shouted, as a Capitol police officer pushed him back and locked the door.
Republican state Senator Luther Olsen—a member of the Joint Finance Committee who is on friendly terms with incoming Governor Tony Evers and represents a possible swing vote in the Senate, where even two Republican defectors could turn back the power-grab legislation—tried, unsuccessfully, to get through the locked door before slipping down the hall to another entrance.
Original 1/26/2018 post, "My thoughts exactly, Carol. Luther Olsen lost his spine around the time Scott Walker was first elected governor", starts here.
Comment posted at Senate Votes To Fire Heads Of Ethics, Elections Commissions. (Wisconsin Public Radio, 1/23/2018)
Related post:
Get me rewrite: It reads much better this way. (1/12/2018)
State Sen. Luther Olsen: The man who abandoned his principles and sold his soul to the Right. (9/15/2018)
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