Wisconsin Republicans will vote at their convention next month on a proposal affirming the state’s right to go it alone, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s Daniel Bice reported Monday.
The state party’s Resolutions Committee has voted in favor of a so-called “state sovereignty” measure stating the party “supports legislation that upholds Wisconsin’s right, under extreme circumstances, to secede,” according to the Journal-Sentinel. The resolution came out of one of the state party’s regional caucuses and was edited and adopted by the committee despite top GOP officials’ efforts to quash it.
Gov. Scott Walker (R) dismissed the unconventional proposal last week.
“I don’t think that one aligns with where most Republican officials are in the state of Wisconsin — certainly not with me,” Walker said Friday at a press event, as quoted by the Journal-Sentinel.
Delegates will make a final decision on the state sovereignty measure at the state Republican Party convention on May 2-4 in Milwaukee.
It’s what I’ve been expecting. More states will follow…
Just unbelievable. The powers that be in the Republican party have completely dropped the reins. Things are going to get much worse in that party before they get better, I’m afraid.
This is what happens when you spend the better part of 50 years throwing out more and more red meat to an increasingly hateful, rabid base of terrified, angry people. In recent years, the red meat tossing has been on overdrive which is why the Republican base has become increasingly divorced from reality. You’d think at some point party leaders would begin to do something to address this problem, but they’re not. They’re just going to keep pouring shots for a drunk they wish would sober up.
The Tea Party are not an Astroturf (artificial grassroots) movement after all. Turns out they’re all fertilizer and no weed barrier.
Umm - didn’t Wisconsin fight on the side opposing secession when this initially came up in a big way? So why is the Party of Lincoln on the other side of this now? Unless they are no longer actually the Party of Lincoln?