http://www.thenation.com/blog/159511/lawless-fitzwalkerstan-constitution-officer-refuses-bend-royal-governor%E2%80%99s-dictateThe fear that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Republican allies such as state Senate majority leader Scott Fitzgerald are turning Wisconsin into the American equivalent of a lawless “rogue state”—dubbed “Fitzwalkerstan” by state Rep. Mark Pocan, the former co-chair of the powerful Legislative Joint Finance Committee—was being taken more seriously Sunday. Walker’s lieutenants have announced that they would begin implementing the governor’s draconian anti-union power grab, despite the fact that a judge has issued an order blocking the law from going into effect.
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“Upon the advice of my legal counsel, the Department of Administration will begin the process of implementing
as we are required to do the day after a bill is lawfully published,” claimed Walker’s Department of Administration secretary Mike Huebsch.
The problem is that bill has not been lawfully published.
“Official publication by the Secretary of State is required for this act to go into effect,” state Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca explained. “The Secretary of State, the only Constitutional officer with the power to publish law, is prohibited by court order from publishing this Act.”
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But Americans should know that, in the wilds of Fitzwalkerstan, an honest man with the great name of La Follette is holding aloft a copies of the Constitution and the state statutes promising that he will abide by its dictates—not those of an outlaw governor.
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La Follette is the state SOS and a dem. Whatever happens, this man stands between mob rule and democracy. Dicktater Walker has attempted an end run around him and the courts. If Walker succeeds, this little experiment will go nationwide.
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