Scumbag!
Gov. Walker Lashes Out After Failing to Stop Special Elex
BY GIDEON RESNICK
After months of battling against it, three court orders finally forced the Republican governor’s hand.
Wisconsin’s Republican Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday finally called for two special elections to fill vacancies in the state’s Senate and Assembly, after declining to do so when they opened in December.
And then he got extremely mad online.
The two seats were previously held by Republicans but have been left empty after they joined Walker’s administration. Republican efforts to halt the elections were stymied Wednesday when the Wisconsin Court of Appeals issued a stern ruling calling for the elections to take place.
Walker had previously contended that the elections would be a waste of taxpayer money as there would be elections in November anyway and the Assembly is adjourned for the year.
District 2 Court of Appeals Judge Paul Reilly became the third judge in a single week to rule against Walker's efforts to halt the elections.
“Representative government and the election of our representatives are never ‘unnecessary,’ never a ‘waste of taxpayer resources,’ and the calling of the special elections are, as the governor acknowledges, his ‘obligation,’” he wrote in a rebuke to the governor.
Republicans in the state legislature sought to get a bill passed that would cancel the necessity of special elections but that, too, will not happen now. Walker was informed earlier this week by Circuit Judge Richard Niess that he would have until Thursday to call these elections and turned down a request from the governor to put that requirement off for a week so that the legislature could pass the bill.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/scott-walker-lashes-out-after-losing-bid-to-prevent-special-elections?via=newsletter&source=PMDigestOrig_ABTest
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