Despite WI GOP Majority Leader Fitzgerald's bluster about overturning Gov. Evers COVID-19-fighting
'masks-indoors' order, we've seen no movement towards an actual legislative vote because Assembly Speaker Vos doesn't have the votes to do it, according to at least one GOP state representative.
And why is that?
Because Wisconsin citizens polled strongly support the mask order, and data etched in blood released today makes clear why.
Asked another way, do these GOP leaders really want more death and damage on their personal and political balance sheets?
'masks-indoors' order, we've seen no movement towards an actual legislative vote because Assembly Speaker Vos doesn't have the votes to do it, according to at least one GOP state representative.
And why is that?
Because Wisconsin citizens polled strongly support the mask order, and data etched in blood released today makes clear why.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 724 more cases and eight more deaths, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 61,785 and the number of deaths to 1,006.
That's more than five people dying per day, or one person every four to five hours, since Wisconsin confirmed its first case a little over six months ago.Vos understands that he and Fitzgerald - who's soon to depart for a Congressional seat - can't afford to be so outrageous as to threaten their bigger partisan, power-grabbing goal: saving GOP legislative seats and tipping enough Democratic seatsinstalling veto-proof majorities in both legislative houses which would really hamstring Evers' authority for two years.
Asked another way, do these GOP leaders really want more death and damage on their personal and political balance sheets?
I don't believe anything the GOP says so I don't believe they don't have the votes. If Vos tells them to vote to overturn the mask mandate they will do it. My guess is that he is afraid of the optics of overturning something that 70% of Wisconsinites support. He is "picking his battles." The goal is a veto proof legislature and if that means pissing off a few anti-mask nuts he is willing to pretend he can't unite his caucus around masks.
ReplyDeleteI think Katrina is right and I think the criminal also known as Robin Vos is dreaming. tRump will help elect more Dems. to serve in Madison.
ReplyDeleteWhile I agree with the super majority wish and desire there might be another thought to this action. Fitz is running in a Republican gerrymandered district and is pretty much set to win that election. Vos has his eyes on being governor and that is a state wide race. He may not be so successful if he keeps killing Wisconsinites at the current rate.
ReplyDeleteI think Katrina is right and I think the criminal also known as Robin Vos is dreaming. tRump will help elect more Dems. to serve in Madison.
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