Scott Walker Ends His Miserable Governorship With a Final Assault on Democracy
tulc(is going to need a lot more coffee soon)Scott Walker has chosen to finish his term as it began, by placing his petty ambitions ahead of a state that he never understood and never chose to lead as anything more than a partisan placeholder.
The defeated Republican governor of Wisconsin capped his tenure on a pathetic note: by signing a sweeping package of legislation designed by his legislative henchmen to grab power away from Governor-elect Tony Evers and Attorney General-elect Josh Kaul—the Democrats who were elected on November 6. The measures do damage to democracy, but they do far more severe damage to Walker’s place in the long history of Wisconsin.