From Jay Heck on Political Friends:

[hue]

"Friends, earlier this evening the State Senate passed, along partisan lines, hyper-partisan legislation -- Senate Bill 295 -- which eliminates the ability for organizations like the League of Women Voters, the NAACP, Voces del la Frontera and even city and municipal clerks to be able to conduct effective voter registration drives. It also stipulates that mailed absentee ballots not received by election day will not be counted! Currently, absentee ballots that have a post mark on election day are counted. So that means thousands of absentee ballots will be disqualified! While SB 295 does provide for some online voter registration -- a positive thing -- the obvious hyper-partisan voter suppression provisions -- added in secret and without a public hearing -- render this legislation utterly unsupportable. Both State Senator Devin LeMahieu (R-Oostburg), the primary author of this abomination, and State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau,) were both utterly incapable of being able to defend the legislation and simply called for partisan votes to defeat Democratic amendments that would have improved the bill. A number of Democratic State Senators were outstanding in their effective assault on this obviously hyper-partisan voter suppression measure: Julie Lassa of Stevens Point, Tim Carpenter of Milwaukee, Mark Miller of Monona, Jon Erpenbach of Middleton, Fred Risser of Madison, Janet Bewley of Ashland and Dave Hansen of Green Bay. Please thank them for their heroic effort. Contact every Republican State Senator and tell them how wrong they are on this. And contact your State Representative and urge they vote against this when it comes to the Assembly for a vote in the very near future. Never give up and never surrender!"

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[Half-Century Man]

1. Yet another example of Wisconsin rebublicans governing by ambush.

They have an overwhelming majority in the state government, they have the massive financial backing of out of state donors, and their opposition in the state (us, the Democratic Party) are largely fearful of Walker's legendary retribution. And they still can't govern by the light of day.