I'd noted the hypocrisies in
WI GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos' 11th-hour moves to shift powers to the Joint Finance Committee and away from newly-elected Democratic Gov. Tony Evers after having helped give many of those same powers to make GOP Gov. Walker even stronger.
Not surprisingly, Vos posed a tweet that suggested some substantial history on the subject, but you can be the judge of whether his claim was merely unconvincing or downright laughable:
Say you're the boss in the company, and one of your employees whose 14th anniversary on the job is January 3rd, 2019. He wants a promotion. You ask hm what he'd he done to justify it, and he cites something he'd said two years ago about how it'd be a good idea to take away some powers from the boss.
In fact, Vos benefited from gubernatorial action a few months ago when the federal government gave Wisconsin the $160 million Walker sought to finish the road work so vehicles could get to and from the Foxconn project district in Vos' district.
Does Vos really believe that US DOT, the White House and various congressional offices are going to be as responsive to major funding requests from a group of Wisconsin state legislators filling in for a chief executive?
I can just hear these federal officials who are used to dealing with Governors saying, 'Speaker who? Their Joint Committee wants what? Is that their marijuana control board?"
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WI GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos' 11th-hour moves to shift powers to the Joint Finance Committee and away from newly-elected Democratic Gov. Tony Evers after having helped give many of those same powers to make GOP Gov. Walker even stronger.
Not surprisingly, Vos posed a tweet that suggested some substantial history on the subject, but you can be the judge of whether his claim was merely unconvincing or downright laughable:
ICYMI: I have been concerned about the balance of power in state government for some time.I go for laughable, because all he references is a remark he made to a journalist in 2016, followed with absolutely no remedial legislation.
Say you're the boss in the company, and one of your employees whose 14th anniversary on the job is January 3rd, 2019. He wants a promotion. You ask hm what he'd he done to justify it, and he cites something he'd said two years ago about how it'd be a good idea to take away some powers from the boss.
In fact, Vos benefited from gubernatorial action a few months ago when the federal government gave Wisconsin the $160 million Walker sought to finish the road work so vehicles could get to and from the Foxconn project district in Vos' district.
Does Vos really believe that US DOT, the White House and various congressional offices are going to be as responsive to major funding requests from a group of Wisconsin state legislators filling in for a chief executive?
I can just hear these federal officials who are used to dealing with Governors saying, 'Speaker who? Their Joint Committee wants what? Is that their marijuana control board?"