Charles P Pierce: The Authoritarian Operation in Portland Is Only a Dress Rehearsal

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28. The RWNJ republicans destroyed Wisconsin by making it a "test" state to see what they......

...... could getaway. They stole state elections (magic 7000 ballots) to flip a race. They destroyed the teacher union. They stacked the courts with RWNJ. They gerrymandered the state to keep it repugs only in power.

They were instrumental in helping Trump and the Russians steal a federal election.

They gave BILLIONs to a foreign company FOXCON to build a manufacturing plant to employ tens of thousands of new workers. In that give away they took private land by eminent domain, they violated the Great Lakes Compact protecting the Great Lakes waters.

They stacked the state Supreme Court so they are guaranteed to aways win legal disputes. By pushing the "final" decision up to the state Supreme Court which the repugs OWN.

Then when they LOST the Governor's office the repug controlled legislators wrote NEW laws to strip away powers from the newly elected Democratic Governor. When the Governor vetoed their "new" laws the repug controlled legislature overrode the veto.

These are SOME of the publicly known things they have done to Wisconsin. It has taken 10 years plus so the one thing you can say about the repugs is they are patient and they have and utilize long-range plans. One devious step at a time. And there is BIG MONEY backing each and every step of their plan. In the case of Wisconsin, it was at least KOCH money.

So warning Oregon if your state has been targeted as a "test" state the will steal it by hook or by crook.