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Originally Posted by Castlerock
Yes. The legislature (GOP super-majority) has already eliminated several of the Governor's powers. There are other ballot measures on today's ballot to strip more. And with very misleading text.
One measure:
"Constitutional amendment to establish an eight-member Bipartisan Board of Ethics and Elections Enforcement in the Constitution to administer ethics and elections law."
Who wouldn't vote for that, right? Well, there is ALREADY a NINE member bipartisan board with at least one unaffiliated member. The change is to who gets to appoint the board (was governor; would change to legislature). And ensures that the new board would always be a 4-4 partisan deadlock.
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I thought I remembered differently with this committee and the GOP proposal was that the ninth member would be appointed from a different party each year - Democrats in odd years and Republicans in even years. (It shouldn't take but a moment to figure out why the Democrats weren't on board with this idea.)