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Vos-Republican want coercive "power of the purse" to run WI elections, but will block similar coercive Federal funding?

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Tell me if I’m mistaken, but isn’t this an outside right-wing group telling Wisconsinites how they should run elections? To game the system, constitutional amendments replace regulations. ALEC is back. JSonline:

Seriously, nothing screams “integrity” like the new right-wing group “Center for Election Integrity” privately scheming to bypass the elected governor? 


A possible route around Gov. Tony Evers was revealed during a private meeting on elections hosted by ALEC. Trump’s former White House spokesman Hogan Gidley told attendees that his new Center for Election Integrity, was working with elected officials and business leaders in Wisconsin “to figure out the best path” around Evers, who has said he will block GOP-backed election measures. “We feel as though the governor can’t do anything about it and it will become law,” Gidley said in a recording…require amending the state constitution, a process that takes at least two years because the Legislature has to pass it in two consecutive sessions. 

 As the nation’s eyes turn to Wisconsin…


Nowhere is this crusade to subvert the 2020 election result more on display than in Wisconsin. WI State Rep. Tim Ramthun wasn’t surprised by Donald Trump’s call. A few weeks earlier, Trump had left a message and wanted to thank Ramthun for his continued efforts to overturn the 2020 election results/

First, he would pass his resolution to decertify the last presidential election, and then he would help other states follow his lead. “If one state does this, I think others will follow,” he remembers telling Trump.

“You’re my kind of guy,” Trump replied.

Next: Statist Authoritarian Rule over Elections: Welcome to coercive government. Republicans have been penalizing/withdrawing funding for education and two Democratic counties and cities for the last 11 years, so it was just a matter of time before they would target elections. Wait for the breathtaking hypocrisy. First WI GOP wants to use funding as the hammer…: 


Wisconsin Republicans who control the state Legislature want to close out the legislative session by giving themselves the power to take away staff and funding from state agencies deemed to have run afoul of election laws and taking control over guidance that comes from the state Elections Commission. “The Legislature has the power of the purse. It is the legislative branch’s primary check on the other branches of government,” bill authors Sen. Duey Stroebel. “Enforcement is the through the power of the purse.”

But Republicans are against using federal funding in the same way. Despite not being constitutional, they want to block federal election requirements: 

Republican-controlled legislative committee would have the power to prevent the governor from distributing federal election funding if the lawmakers did not like the way the state elections agency planned to spend it.

A little subjective? It doesn’t stop there: 

“This bill ensures the people of Wisconsin, through their representatives, can review, amend, or block any efforts by the executive branch of the federal government to interfere with Wisconsin election administration,” LeMahieu and Vos wrote in a memo to colleagues.

This includes attempts to use coercive federalism— introducing federal requirements as a condition of receiving federal funds — to lure states into adopting new policies at the agency level and bypass the legislative process.

Only one party can do that.

A former liberal radio talk host who likes to ask the “follow-up question” at Democurmudgeon.blogspot.com


Source: https://democurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2022/02/vos-republican-want-coercive-power-of.html


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