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WI elections commissioners to GOP legislators: "Your failure to address... the safety of all of Wisconsin’s residents during yesterday’s special session is unconscionable and is an abdication of your constitutional responsibilities as our leaders" >> READ:
washingtonpost.com/politics/wisco…
"100+ municipalities will not have enough poll workers to open a single voting location, some voters may not receive their mail-in ballots in time, & those who do vote in person will be doing so at a time when public health officials have warned all Americans to stay home."
"Rather than having the [National] Guard work to prepare for the surge of COVID-19 cases and deaths that we sadly know are coming, we are instead sending them around the state to be poll workers"
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If you listened to The Daily today, you got a good sense of the power dynamics in the fight over Wisconsin's election—but there's a central thing you didn't hear much about: the huge-stakes state Supreme Court race, Jill Karofsky (good) vs Dan Kelly (bad).
nytimes.com/2020/04/07/pod…
Jill Karofsky has spent her life working to advance equal justice for all. She was a domestic violence special prosecutor. Ran the statewide office of crime victim services. Has been decorated and honored as a judge. Thinks and cares deeply about civil rights. #JillForJustice
Dan Kelly is a GOP activist lawyer. He defended Scott Walker in corruption trials, and defended Wisconsin's GOP-gerrymandered maps in court. Walker thanked him by appointing him Justice to fill a vacancy, despite no prior judicial experience. It's turned out exactly as you think:
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Wisconsin has 2440 known coronavirus cases and likely 10x that many unconfirmed, many of them asymptomatic & infectious. Tomorrow, they'll mingle with thousands of others at polling places thanks to...

THESE REPUBLICAN STATE LEGISLATORS!

<applause, cheers>

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The first of tonight's featured legislators? Meet Alberta Darling!

Senator Darling attacked Governor Evers's proposal to mail ballots to Wisconsinites as "an extreme that will hamper our democracy."

Why? Too little time. So, delay to make it work? No!

myemail.constantcontact.com/Governor-s-Pla…
@SenDarling could have used her position as one of the state Senate's most endangered incumbents to push her embarrassingly weak majority leader, @SenFitzgerald, to delay the election. Instead, she's urged voters to stay safe by bringing their own pens. Thanks for the great tip!
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If there is to be any good that comes from today, let it be this: you will never allow yourself to forget, from now until you die, the need to fight as hard for judicial & state legislative seats as you do for the White House. Republicans know this. Let's know it even harder. 1/
Wisconsin's state Supreme Court decision today that locked in tomorrow's election was a party-line 4-2 ruling, with Dan Kelly—the GOP incumbent on the ballot—recusing.

We lost the 2019 state SCOWIS race to a GOP troll by 5,930 votes.

In 2017, the Republican ran unopposed.
I'm one of thousands who knocked on doors all over Wisconsin last year to fight for @JudgeNeubauer. But national Republicans backed up a money truck in the final week of the race and spiked GOP turnout 30% vs 2018, and won by a hair. If we'd won, SCOWIS would've deadlocked today.
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