{"id":14632,"date":"2025-01-08T00:27:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T01:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=14632"},"modified":"2025-01-08T01:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T01:59:21","slug":"evers-proposes-mob-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=14632","title":{"rendered":"Evers Proposes Mob Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2025\/01\/07\/evers-proposes-mob-rule\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=evers-proposes-mob-rule\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2025\/01\/07\/evers-proposes-mob-rule\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=evers-proposes-mob-rule<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to see why this is a bad idea, you need not look any further than California. A Republic with representative government is the least bad form of government. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/minnesota\/news\/wisconsin-plan-voters-create-laws-republican-resistance\/\">Straight democracy is mob rule<\/a>. Thank goodness this proposal is DOA.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers\u2019 plan to let voters repeal and create state laws without legislative involvement met opposition on Monday from Republican leaders of the Legislature, who signaled that the idea is likely to be rejected for a second time.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Evers said on Friday that the state budget he plans to unveil next month will include a mandate that legislators take up a constitutional amendment allowing voters to petition for ballot proposals to repeal state statutes and create new ones. Evers made a similar proposal in 2022 for voters to repeal\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/minnesota\/news\/wisconsin-1849-abortion-ban-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http>the state\u2019s 1849 abortion ban<\/a><\/span>, but Republicans killed the plan.<\/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\/2025\/01\/07\/evers-proposes-mob-rule\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=evers-proposes-mob-rule If you want to see why this is a&#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-14632","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\/14632","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=14632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14633,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14632\/revisions\/14633"}],"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=14632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}