{"id":1378,"date":"2023-03-18T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2023-03-18T16:12:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T16:12:21","slug":"in-brazen-political-move-evers-denies-voters-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1378","title":{"rendered":"In Brazen Political Move, Evers Denies Voters\u2019 Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/03\/18\/in-brazen-political-move-evers-denies-voters-vote\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-brazen-political-move-evers-denies-voters-vote\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/03\/18\/in-brazen-political-move-evers-denies-voters-vote\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-brazen-political-move-evers-denies-voters-vote<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a practical sense, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/03\/17\/doug-la-follette-to-retire-as-secretary-of-state-evers-taps-godlewski\/70020959007\/\">it makes little difference<\/a>. La Follette is a lefty who abused the office on behalf of his ideology and Godlewski will do the same. His legacy is that he spent his entire life trading off of a reputation that someone else earned for his name\u2026 and squandered it.<\/p>\n<p>But the brazen political maneuvering here to give Godlewski a cushy state job for the next four years when the voters just rejected her is gross. The state Democratic machine is positioning her with a statewide office that she can use to build her profile for future office. It\u2019s transparent. It\u2019s unethical. And it\u2019ll probably work.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">MADISON \u2013 Doug La Follette, Wisconsin\u2019s Secretary of State and the longest serving statewide elected official in the nation, is retiring after holding the office for nearly five decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">La Follette, 82, is leaving the post he has held onto through election cycles swept by Republicans and survived aggressive primary challenges by members of his own party. His departure comes two months into a new term he\u00a0<a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/11\/21\/wisconsin-secretary-of-state-amy-loudenbeck-concedes-to-la-follette\/69668140007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|${u}\">narrowly secured in November<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Democratic Gov. Tony Evers announced Friday he has appointed former state treasurer and\u00a0<a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2022\/07\/29\/sarah-godlewski-withdraws-democratic-u-s-senate-primary\/10182719002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|${u}\">unsuccessful U.S. Senate candidate<\/a>\u00a0Sarah Godlewski to replace La Follette and serve the remainder of his term.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/03\/18\/in-brazen-political-move-evers-denies-voters-vote\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=in-brazen-political-move-evers-denies-voters-vote In a practical sense, it makes little difference. La&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1379,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/1379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}