{"id":7655,"date":"2023-12-12T01:18:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T02:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=7655"},"modified":"2023-12-12T03:01:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T03:01:30","slug":"gov-tony-evers-no-chance-hed-allow-elimination-of-wec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=7655","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Tony Evers: \u201cNo Chance\u201d He\u2019d Allow Elimination of WEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/evers-no-chance-hed-allow-elimination-of-wec\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/evers-no-chance-hed-allow-elimination-of-wec\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/evers-maps-commission.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Republican\u2019s Second Tax Cut evers vetoes evers budget\" title=\"Nonprofits Funding Hamas\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 Wisconsin\u2019s governor is making it clear he\u2019s not going to sign off on the end of the Wisconsin Elections Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Tony Evers was a guest on Upfront on Milwaukee TV over the weekend and said he will veto the Republican-backed plan to get rid of the elections commission and shift its powers to the secretary of state\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder no circumstances, simple as that,\u201d Evers said.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Rep. Ty Bodden, R-Stockbridge, introduced the plan last week. He said moving the responsibility for managing Wisconsin\u2019s elections to the elected secretary of state will help restore faith in the state\u2019s electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Wisconsin Elections Commission and its makeup has been a disaster for the state of Wisconsin. The Government Accountability Board was a failed agency and WEC was another failed experiment that replaced it. Let\u2019s not try to reinvent the wheel, but rather give the responsibilities back to the secretary of state, the position that administers elections in 38 other states,\u201d Bodden said last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoving it to the secretary of state and having the secretary of state essentially be overseen by the Legislature, that\u2019s a non-starter,\u201d the governor countered. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a good system. We\u2019ve got a good leader in the system, and I\u2019m going to veto anything that moves us in a different direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers have been pushing to fire Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe for years. Republicans have been furious with Wolfe since the 2020 elections, and the still unanswered questions about things like ballot drop boxes, the money from the Mark Zuckerberg-backed Center for Tech and Civic Life and for a string of other Election Commission decisions that all seemed to benefit Democrats in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Evers defended Wolfe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think she\u2019s a very capable person, but we have a good system now,\u201d Evers said. \u201cI want to keep it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bodden\u2019s plan has support in both the Assembly and Senate, though it\u2019s not clear if it has enough support to pass both chambers, especially with a promised veto hanging over its head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/evers-no-chance-hed-allow-elimination-of-wec\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 Wisconsin\u2019s governor is making it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7657,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655\/revisions\/7657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}