Citizens of Wisconsin: immediate action needed to stop Scott Walker and his henchmen from turning our exemplary, nonpartisan Government Accountability Board from an election law and campaign ethics watchdog into a Republican lapdog! If you're a citizen of Wisconsin and you value clean and fair campaigns and elections, sign our petition to demand that the legislature keep its hands off GAB.
Walker's attacks on democracy never end. The coming assault on Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board is just the latest in a long string of power grabs that aim to ensure GOP control over the state for decades.
Just a week after announcing his run for the presidency, Scott Walker announced that "he supports dismantling and replacing the state’s independent elections and ethics board.... In its place, Walker said, he supports the creation of 'something completely new that is truly accountable to the people of the state of Wisconsin.' Walker left open the possibility that a replacement board could have partisan leadership, compared to the current board, made up of six former judges" (Wisconsin State Journal, July 21, 2015).
(For a concise history of GAB's creation, see the League of Women Voters League of Women Voters' press release.)
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