Just what we need ...
... an advisory referendum on the death penalty.
If it's on the September primary ballot, it will drive the Republican candidates for governor and attorney general even farther toward the edge of the Earth (which they believe to be flat.)
Can't wait for the Biggest Demagogue contest. I predict Paul Bucher wins, although Mark Green got a head-start.
There's a reason Wisconsin outlawed the death penalty in 1853. Our state is better than that.
Republicans have tried to use the issue before, most recently in the 1994 AG's race, when Jeff Wagner (who has gone on to fame and fortune as a Republican radio host) callously put the grieving father of a young murder victim in his television commercial to attack Jim Doyle, who was then the AG. Doyle has been a strong and consistent opponent of the death penalty, and has won four statewide elections.
This is lunacy.
posted by xoff @ 10:48 AM
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Does this mean you've changed your mind on holding small town referendums on the war in Iraq?
The two are not related, and the comment is beneath you. You're better than that.
Well, if we're going to put an amendment banning same-sex marriage on the ballot, we might as well get to killin' prisoners as well.
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