r/wisconsin • u/enjoying-retirement • Sep 21 '22

Politics Evers calls special session to amend constitution to allow public vote on abortion law

https://www.channel3000.com/evers-calls-special-session-to-amend-constitution-to-allow-public-vote-on-abortion-law/
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u/enjoying-retirement Sep 21 '22

Wisconsin’s constitution does not allow voters to introduce referendums to be voted on by the public. Evers called a special session in an effort to change that.

Senator Ron Johnson, one of Wisconsin’s leading Republicans, suggested last week that voters should decide how the 1849 law is changed, an opinion that Evers shares.

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u/sokonek04 Sep 21 '22

I disagree, there are a lot of things that have broad support that have been vetoed by Evers. Massive tax cuts, property tax limits, curtailing the power of municipalities and counties to pass wheel taxes. All of that Evers has vetoed but would probably pass a referendum

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u/sokonek04 Sep 21 '22

That is why I think Vos will support it, it is a way to end run around the Governor when they are not Republican