WI-SD08: This state Senate seat will determine whether Wisconsin Republicans get a supermajority.
Wisconsin is a 50-50 state, but Republicans have gerrymandered our legislative maps so ruthlessly that they are now just one seat away from a 2/3 supermajority in the state Senate.
The reason the GOP doesn’t quite have 2/3 of the Senate is because Alberta Darling, a Republican who served District 8 for 29 years, announced her retirement last year and vacated her office on December 1, 2022. As a result, the GOP has 21 seats. Dems have 11.
On April 4, Wisconsin will hold a special election to fill the seat. Senate District 8, in the Northern Milwaukee suburbs, is conservative but trending bluer. The Democratic nominee is Jodi Habush Sinykin. The Republican is Dan Knodl—a guy who puts the “ultra” into “ultra-MAGA.”
When election deniers circulated a letter urging Mike Pence to ignore Wisconsin’s legitimate electors on January 6, 2021, Knodl was one of the signatories. That’s right. He tried to help overturn the results of a free and fair election.
For years, Knodl has been scheming to roll back reproductive freedom in Wisconsin. Before Roe was overturned, Knodl sponsored legislation that banned abortion at 20 weeks with no exceptions for rape or incest.
Right now, Wisconsin is in legal limbo—a near-total abortion ban, passed in the year 1849, has ended all access to safe and legal abortion in Wisconsin. Governor Evers proposed repealing it. Dan Knodl didn’t lift a finger to respond.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/10/2157248/-This-state-Senate-seat-will-determine-whether-Wisconsin-Republicans-get-a-supermajority
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