Despicable GOP power grabs in Michigan & Wisconsin. Here in MI, the GOP knows its days of

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being the majority in the legislature are numbered, so they're trying to do as much damage as they can. They've already lost their supermajority, and now that we have a Democratic Governor, their horrific bills will not be signed into law. They're cutting off their nose to spite their face, though, because with the anti-gerrymandering proposal that just passed, they will likely lose their majority in 2020. I wonder if Snyder will sign the bills into law--he doesn't have the best relationship with Republican legislators, but he'll probably cave. He usually does. The only decent thing he did was to defy the legislature and expand Medicaid. They are vile. They are evil. They are anti-American. I will be at the State Capitol today to protest. I hope other DUers in Michigan can be there, too.

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“Less than a month after the midterm elections, Republican state lawmakers in Wisconsin and Michigan are working to limit the powers of newly elected Democrats in statewide office.” https://www.npr.org/2018/12/04/673020090/in-states-they-lost-some-gop-lawmakers-rush-to-limit-new-democrats-power …

8:10 AM - Dec 4, 2018

[mitch96]

1. "Despicable GOP power grab"

And how can it be stopped??? It looks like a direct attack on our democracy???
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[onetexan]

2. this is the same that happened in NC - power hungry GOP won't succeed

http://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-north-carolina-governor-legislature-power-ballot-measure.html

"Critics of the measure, however, didn't accept the claim from legislators that it actually would have spread power among the branches. Instead, they called it a "power grab," stripping the governor of authority.
That's something the GOP-dominated legislature has been attempting to do in a number of ways since Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper was elected two years ago. In a special session in the month following the 2016 election, for instance, the legislature eliminated certain appointment powers of the governor.

Every living former governor of North Carolina -- two Republicans and three Democrats -- came out against the measures.
"These constitutional amendments would dramatically shift more power to an already dominant legislature," the governors wrote in a joint op-ed last week. "The courts struck down as unconstitutional previous attempts to accomplish such power grabs through legislation, for violating the 'separation of powers' clause of the N.C. Constitution."

In August, a three-judge panel sided with the governor over the proposed ballot measures, ordering earlier versions removed from the ballot. The judges ruled that they were written in a way that was misleading and deceptive to voters. But the legislature had already passed new versions of the referenda."

[bdamomma]

3. fucking sore losers

and treasonous bastards they are.

[dalton99a]

4. It is utterly un-American and treasonous.