Wisconsin Blue Wave Grows in Special Elections That Were Blocked by Scott Walker

Concern with safe and clean
water is fueling the Blue Wave.

Madison, Wisconsin — Wisconsin citizens flipped a deep-red state senate seat and slashed a double-digit GOP margin in a gerrymandered assembly district last night in an unmistakable signal the Blue Wave is huge in Wisconsin.

The two special elections were blocked by Gov. Scott Walker earlier this year after Walker refused his statutory duty to order special elections after legislative vacancies.

The two districts will now have a sitting representative from June to January 2019, the first time since 2017 that residents could speak with a sitting representative.

"Now, I can pick up the phone and call my state senator, Caleb Frostman, and talk about the issues that affect my community," said a Door County resident this morning. "Contacting my legislator is what our republic is supposed to be about. Not for Scott Walker."

Scott Walker was so desperate to block the elections, it took the intervention of three judges to order Walker to fulfill his duty.

The judicial action was brought by the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, headed by former Attorney General Eric Holder.

"Scott Walker and his Republican allies gerrymandered this district for their own partisan benefit. But the citizens of Wisconsin are clearly speaking out this year to demand a state government that better represents their values," said Holder Tuesday night, (Terkel, Huntington Post).

The special elections results are, (WMTV-Madison):

State Senate Dist One

Caleb Frostman (D)         14,606 votes       51% (19-point blue swing from 2016)
André Jacque     (R)         13,800  votes      49%

State Assembly Dist 42

Jon Plumer (R)                5,713 votes          53% (7-point blue swing from 2016)
Ann Groves Lloyd (D)    4,834  votes         45%

There are three assembly districts in each senate district in Wisconsin.

Even in the contorted 42nd assembly
district comprising parts of six
counties, Republicans lost seven
points last night in the Special Elections
that were blocked by Gov. Scott Walker
last Spring.

Because of Republican gerrymandering of state redistricting, the contorted assembly district 42 comprises parts of six counties, shown on a map at right, jagged and stretched-out like clay had been stepped on and carved up.

Republicans called the election results both "meaningless" and indicative of a mere blue "trickle," ignoring the 19 and seven-point blue swings, (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel).

No amount of Republican contorting the results last night in Wisconsin can change facts:

Results in tonight's WI elections:

▪️#SD01: 51-49 for Democrat Caleb Frostman, a 21% Dem swing from 2016 and an 8% improvement over Obama '12
▪️#AD42: 53-45 for Republican Jon Plumer, a 6% Dem swing from 2016, and an 11% retraction vs. Obama '12.https://t.co/qSfxkNzxUU

— James Lambert (@hellofasandwich) June 13, 2018