(12-05-2018 02:49 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  And in North Carolina and Wisconsin, you have outgoing Republican politicians taking away power from incoming Democratic replacements.

https://apnews.com/dbded03c16ce4c3c8609d01b403e57d9

Both parties do disgusting stuff.

And Democrats have done the same in North Carolina and Wisconsin in the past, let alone when it came to filling empty senate seats in Massachusetts.

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/polit...oup-wasnt/

"It’s certainly within the realm of reason to find all this legislative maneuvering distasteful, but it cannot be called unprecedented. As Case Western University Law Professor Jonathan Adler helpfully reminded American political observers in 2016, attempts by partisan legislators to handcuff incoming executives of the other party is practically tradition in North Carolina.

When the governor’s mansion changed hands in 1972, 1984, and 1988, legislative Democrats were behind the effort to rein in the new Republican governor’s appointment power. “This history does not excuse what North Carolina Republicans have done,” Adler correctly noted. But they failed to recognize that the precedents that Tarheel State Republicans were building upon led to an appalling lack of perspective among garment-rending political commentators...."

<Article has an interesting history of a variety of such hijinks by outgoing parties>

I mean stealing elections by anyone..associated with either parties...is the worst. some people need to go to prison...for a long time.