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posted by martyb on Tuesday December 04 2018, @11:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the How-much-does-your-vote-count dept.

According to Reuters and The Washington Post:

Two of the Democratic Party’s biggest wins last month occurred in Wisconsin and Michigan, where their candidates won gubernatorial elections, unseating a well-known incumbent in the former and flipping the seat in the latter. In anticipation of having to work with a Democratic governor, state lawmakers are aiming to hurriedly pass legislation that would dilute the executives' powers.

The moves in both states have drawn comparisons to Republican efforts in NC in 2016, when lawmakers pushed through legislation limiting the authority of the state’s Democratic governor, after he defeated the incumbent Republican.

The proposals include preventing the incoming governor from withdrawing Wisconsin from a legal challenge to the federal Affordable Care Act, sidestepping the attorney general’s power to represent the state in litigation and rescheduling a 2020 election to boost the chances of a Republican state Supreme Court Justice, among others.

U.S. Republicans and Democrats have a history of using lame-duck sessions to advance priorities ahead of power shifts. Wisconsin Democrats in 2010 unsuccessfully tried to push through public union contracts after Walker won election while promising to get tough with organized labor.

Meanwhile, in Utah, lawmakers are getting ready to meet in a special lame-duck session on Monday (Dec 3rd) to rewrite a medical marijuana law that voters passed this November. Patient advocates are saying the move is an end run around voters.


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @06:26PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @06:26PM (#769686)

    The corrupt toad in the White House does illustrate your point. No one man should have that much power, because a really bad man was bound to come along and get the worst of us to vote for him.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday December 04 2018, @06:40PM (4 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday December 04 2018, @06:40PM (#769691) Homepage Journal

    It's not bad men you should be afraid of. Good men with the best of intentions are far more terrifying.

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    • (Score: 5, Insightful) by tibman on Tuesday December 04 2018, @09:26PM (3 children)

      by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday December 04 2018, @09:26PM (#769755)

      That's silly. A good person could be reasoned with and accept they screwed up. Could even attempt to undo damage. A bad person who intentionally does bad things really doesn't care. Will deny they did anything wrong. Will abuse power to cover up any visible damage.

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      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday December 04 2018, @10:07PM (2 children)

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday December 04 2018, @10:07PM (#769790) Homepage Journal

        When was the last time you tried to reason with someone who felt morally obligated to do something for your own good? I ask this because clearly you have not been paying attention to politics for the past several decades.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @11:36PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @11:36PM (#769853)

          Very few people have the same "everyone should literally have total freedom" attitude you do. Just so you know that makes you sound like a moron, psychopath, or whatever falls in between.

        • (Score: 4, Insightful) by fyngyrz on Wednesday December 05 2018, @12:51AM

          by fyngyrz (6567) on Wednesday December 05 2018, @12:51AM (#769881) Journal

          You said:

          Good men with the best of intentions are far more terrifying

          Then you said:

          someone who felt morally obligated to do something

          The one is not like the other. People who feel "morally obligated" tend to be very bad, not good at all except perhaps in their own minds (IOW, characterizing one's self as "good" does not make it so.) Witness just about every "sin" law ever made. Made by people who were not good, but rather evil types with devastating intent and ability to control and meddle with the lives, agency, and independence of others.

          So no: it is the bad people we have to worry about. The good ones don't interfere with anyone else until someone gets right in their faces, at which point, it's outright self-defense.