GOP looks for veto-proof majorities in Wisconsin Legislature, AP

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GOP looks for veto-proof majorities in Wisconsin Legislature, AP, 10/9/22

Wisconsin Republicans are hoping Tim Michels will defeat Democratic Gov. Tony Evers in November, but even if Evers prevails they could still reshape the battleground state by winning enough seats in the Legislature to override vetoes.

If Republicans can flip five seats in the Assembly and one in the Senate they'll have the two-thirds majority they need. They would be free to rework state politics at will, including the state budget and election administration.

Evers has blocked almost every piece of major GOP legislation over the last four years, including proposals that would have tightened restrictions on absentee voting and unemployment benefits, expanded the right to carry concealed weapons and curtailed the government's ability to respond to COVID-19.

The U.S. Supreme Court this spring upheld district lines Republicans redrew last year to reflect census changes, a major ruling that solidified their grip on both houses for the next decade.

MORE: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2022/10/09/gop-looks-for-vetoproof-majorities-in-wisconsin-legislature

It's a very long article that talks about a lot of the more contested seats. A common thread is that redrawn district boundaries make a number of Democrat-held seats more dubious this time around.

[kelly1mm]

1. WI like OH and FL is a solid R state (statewide) now NT

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2. It's sad to see a state that went for Biden be on the verge of 2/3 R majorities in both legislative

chambers. Shows the power of gerrymandering district boundaries. Albeit the Biden win margin was a fraction of a percent.

[Wild blueberry]

3. Wisconsin is purple

It's the severe gerrymandering, which the Extreme Court failed to address.
Even my small town that went for Flush in 2016 voted 91% in favor of a referendum that Corporations are not people and Money is not speech.