Scott Walker's Democratic Successor Fights Off Aggressive GOP Power Grab
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Source: Talking Points Memo
By Allegra Kirkland
November 21, 2018 6:00 am
It only took one day.
By the afternoon of Nov. 7, less than 24 hours after projections showed Tony Evers defeating Scott Walker in the Wisconsin governor’s race, Republican leaders were surfacing plans to curb the authority of the incoming Democratic governor.
A steady stream of plots, plans and power grabs has been emanating from the Capitol building in Madison ever since. Republican lawmakers have proposed using a lame duck session to limit Evers’ ability to name appointees to state boards and further enshrine the state’s voter photo ID requirement, among other suggestions. They’re also mulling changing the date of Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential primary in a rather bald attempt to hold onto a state Supreme Court seat.
The election of Evers—a moderate who built a career outside of the partisan party system and has made overtures to Republican lawmakers—offered the prospect of the end to a decade of brute-force GOP control. But these early maneuvers have some Wisconsin Democrats predicting that the battle is just beginning.
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the balance of power in that state - who controls what?
Here in Pennsylvania the Pugs control both the House and the Senate, but a Democratic governor has been able to stop most of the destructive efforts the Pugs have made - and Governor Wolf was just re-elected for another 4-year term! 
