{"id":19224,"date":"2020-04-07T09:58:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T14:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=19224"},"modified":"2020-04-14T13:54:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T18:54:56","slug":"wisconsin-election-coronavirus-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wisconsin-election-coronavirus-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"A full day of shitty news for Wisconsin and democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Courts of the United States and the state of Wisconsin <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2020\/04\/supreme-court-wisconsin-absentee-ballots.html\">conspired on Monday<\/a> to condemn hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites to make the Sophie\u2019s choice of their health or their voting rights.<\/p>\n<p>The decisions came after Gov. Tony Evers attempted to <a href=\"https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/accounts\/WIGOV\/bulletins\/2852119\">postpone Tuesday\u2019s election<\/a> by executive order due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmj4.com\/news\/coronavirus\/pressure-mounts-on-evers-to-delay-wisconsin-spring-election\">widespread<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2020\/04\/01\/judge-signals-he-expand-voting-but-not-delay-wisconsins-election\/5097887002\/\">concerns<\/a> (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/4\/2\/21202825\/wisconsin-election-national-guard-coronavirus-pandemic-tony-evers-debacle\">nationwide<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/a32036661\/wisconsin-republicans-state-supreme-court-election-coronavirus\/\">criticism<\/a>) about voters risking exposure to COVID-19. The gubernatorial order came after the state\u2019s Republican majority <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/2020\/04\/04\/wisconsin-legislature-adjourns-special-session-monday-voting-track-tuesday-election\/2948444001\/\">repeatedly<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc15.com\/content\/news\/Wisconsin-lawmakers-adjourn-wont-meet-again-until-after-Election-Day-569408031.html\">refused<\/a> to prioritize public health over political gain.<\/p>\n<p>The primary upshot of the whiplash of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/06\/us\/politics\/wisconsin-primary-voting-coronavirus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">yesterday\u2019s news<\/a> surrounding our election \u2014 on to off to on again \u2014 is the cravenness and corruption in which the state Republican Party has wrapped itself. In Wisconsin (as elsewhere), the GOP has been vocal about how reducing voter participation in elections is beneficial to them. This is why they obsess over implementing aggressive voter suppression tactics like requiring ID and limiting early voting. (It\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2019\/04\/wisconsin-supreme-court-recount-hagedorn-neubauer-democrats.html\">worth remembering<\/a> that Democrats won 53% of the Assembly vote in 2018 but captured only 36% of the seats.)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trump openly admitting if we made voting easier in America, Republicans wouldn&#8217;t win elections<\/p>\n<p>Trump: &#8220;The things they had in there were crazy. They had levels of voting, that if you ever agreed to it you&#8217;d never have a Republican elected in this country again.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x5HmX6uogo\">pic.twitter.com\/x5HmX6uogo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lis Power (@LisPower1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LisPower1\/status\/1244606910462136321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h3>Risk infection, or disenfranchisement<\/h3>\n<p>Ironically, a year and a half ago, Republicans were talking about moving this spring\u2019s primary to a different date to decouple it from the state Supreme Court election. Back then, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald <a href=\"https:\/\/madison.com\/wsj\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/scott-fitzgerald-moving-presidential-primary-would-give-conservative-judge-a\/article_bfd8f0e7-91b5-54b4-847c-75f152490abc.html\">explicitly said<\/a> the reason for doing so would be for fewer people to show up to vote in the Supreme Court election, thus boosting conservative Daniel Kelly\u2019s chances at victory. Or in internet parlance, \u201cSaying the quiet part loud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their goal was always to decrease voting in this spring\u2019s election, and the pandemic is poised to <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2020\/04\/wisconsin-election-coronavirus.html\">help them in that goal<\/a>. The virus is hitting Democratic strongholds like Milwaukee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/2020\/04\/03\/african-americans-milwaukee-hit-hard-coronavirus\/5111950002\/\">especially hard<\/a>, increasing the likelihood of a much lower turnout. A person forced to choose between risk of infection and disenfranchisement is of no consequence to them. If someone dies as a result \u2014 you, me, your kids, your grandparents \u2014 so be it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lines forming just 30 minutes after polls open in Milwaukee, people trying to space. Almost everyone has a mask <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KVCJ7Ik0Xe\">pic.twitter.com\/KVCJ7Ik0Xe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steadman\u2122 (@AsteadWesley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsteadWesley\/status\/1247502615430209541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h3>The governor was needlessly timid<\/h3>\n<p>For his part, Gov. Evers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tonemadison.com\/articles\/no-confidence\">led from behind<\/a> on this issue. Up until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/04\/03\/wisconsin-governor-makes-last-minute-plea-to-delay-tuesday-election-163441\">late last week<\/a>, he too was resisting calls \u2014 even from within his own party \u2014 to postpone the election. It\u2019s now been 21 days since <a href=\"https:\/\/madison.com\/wsj\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/bars-and-restaurants-to-close-gatherings-of-10-or-more-people-banned\/article_bdbf97f5-e70b-57b0-8435-f516c1454994.html\">Evers ordered a ban<\/a> on gatherings of 10 or more people and closed bars and restaurants. The governor had to have foreseen that polling sites, which require repeated person-to-person exchanges, would be a major public health risk.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My focus has been and will continue to be ensuring everyone has the opportunity to cast their ballot in the upcoming election. That\u2019s why today I am calling on the Legislature to act to send an absentee ballot to every registered voter in Wisconsin. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/39rXpZVmfK\">pic.twitter.com\/39rXpZVmfK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Governor Tony Evers (@GovEvers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovEvers\/status\/1243591395484372992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is not a Republican issue or a Democratic issue\u2014this is an issue of democracy. I don\u2019t care who gets the credit, I just want to make sure that everyone has the chance to vote this April. We don\u2019t have time for politics\u2014we have to get this done, folks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Governor Tony Evers (@GovEvers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovEvers\/status\/1243591399578038272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s laudable that he exercised his executive power yesterday, Evers should have been plainly making the case weeks ago for why the election needed to be delayed. Republican leadership \u2014 who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-election\/wisconsin-governor-calls-special-legislative-session-consider-delaying-election-deadline-n1176186\">claimed postponement<\/a> to be their privilege rather than the governor\u2019s \u2014 would have rebuffed Evers, but it\u2019s possible that the state\u2019s chief executive explaining to the public day after day, week after week, why postponing was necessary as a matter of public health could have shaped the media narrative and public opinion sufficiently enough to force the Republicans\u2019 hand. This wasn\u2019t really a case of \u201cboth sides being bad,\u201d but rather of one side being absolutely toxic and evil and the other needlessly timid. It\u2019s a crummy combination.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h3>Remember how Republicans acted in this moment of crisis\u2026<\/h3>\n<p>Republicans in Wisconsin are a minority faction wielding majority power. And this is thanks only to extreme gerrymandering, voter suppression and other tools that gut democracy. If the state had fair, free and, in this case, safe elections, they wouldn\u2019t hold power. And since power is functionally the only governing interest that they recognize as legitimate anymore, the GOP legislature \u2014 led by Fitzgerald and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos \u2014 will do whatever it takes to ensure that we <em>don\u2019t <\/em>have fair, free and, in this case, safe elections.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Joint statement with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenFitzgerald?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenFitzgerald<\/a> on the Wisconsin Supreme Court&#8217;s decision to overturn the governor&#8217;s order. This election will proceed as planned. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vbXUlqE8Yx\">pic.twitter.com\/vbXUlqE8Yx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Speaker Robin Vos (@SpeakerVos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerVos\/status\/1247296162874433536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>They are aided in this by the hopelessly corrupt, conservative-controlled state Supreme Court, which wasted little time yesterday overturning Evers\u2019s order. This is the same court that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/06\/21\/734722467\/wisconsin-supreme-court-sides-with-gop-lawmakers-to-limit-democratic-governors-p\">ruled last year<\/a> to allow the legislature \u2014\u00a0based upon explicitly partisan arguments \u2014 to radically restrict Evers\u2019s gubernatorial power after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/tony-evers-elected-governor-wisconsin\/\">he beat Scott Walker<\/a>. And their majority includes Kelly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wisconsin-supreme-court-2020\/\">who is on the ballot<\/a>, and other conservative justices who campaigned on his behalf and called his opponent unfit. They were never going to be impartial and were never going to prioritize the public interest. If you ever had confidence to the contrary, ever thought that this court would do the right thing, I have a bridge I\u2019d like to sell you.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Wisconsin, get out and vote NOW for Justice Daniel Kelly. Protect your 2nd Amendment!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1247546362473975809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h3>\u2026and why local- and state-level elections matter so much<\/h3>\n<p>Local politics matter \u2014 and in this and future votes, I implore everyone to remember how Republicans acted in this moment of crisis. The Wisconsin GOP has all but told you that, so long as their political fortunes are enhanced, they don\u2019t care if you get COVID-19, a virus that has killed nearly 80 people here so far and is currently hospitalizing more than a quarter of Wisconsinites who become infected.<\/p>\n<p>As much as anything else in recent memory, this situation is a reminder of why local and state-level elections matter so much. Because of gerrymandering and the rest of the Republican anti-democratic tool kit, it will be a brutal, uphill climb to get them out of office. But the stakes are too high to not continue trying. It\u2019s long been horrible to have people like Fitzgerald and Vos making decisions that impact all of us. Now it\u2019s quite literally a matter of life and death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Courts of the United States and the state of Wisconsin conspired on Monday to condemn hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites to make the Sophie\u2019s choice of their health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":19231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5152],"tags":[9348,11947,7007,62,7786,1774,8137,3240,7008],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.3 (Yoast SEO v18.5.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A full day of shitty news for Wisconsin and democracy - The Bozho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites were condemned to make the Sophie&#039;s choice of their health or their voting rights.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wisconsin-election-coronavirus-democracy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A full day of shitty news for Wisconsin and democracy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One side toxic and evil, the other needlessly timid.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wisconsin-election-coronavirus-democracy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Bozho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thebozho\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-07T14:58:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-04-14T18:54:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/EversFitzgeraldVos-fb.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"A full day of shitty news for Wisconsin and democracy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"One side toxic and evil, the other needlessly timid.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/EversFitzgeraldVos-tw.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@thebozho\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@thebozho\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Simon Balto\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Bozho\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thebozho\/\",\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/thebozho\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thebozho\"],\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/#logo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/logo.png\",\"width\":600,\"height\":280,\"caption\":\"The Bozho\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/#logo\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Bozho\",\"description\":\"Seeing things. 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