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WisGOP: Vukmir: “Kavanaugh madness echoes time when democrats tried to take over my state”
[Madison, WI] — Over the weekend, the United States Senate voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh as the newest Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. As if the confirmation wasn’t enough of a circus, the far-left reacted to the vote the only way they know how– protesting and throwing tantrums in front of the Capitol. To Wisconsin conservatives, this behavior is nothing new – as U.S. Senate Candidate Leah Vukmir pointed out in an op-ed to Fox News.
Read Leah Vukmir’s message on how Democrat madness swept Wisconsin and conservatives fought back here, or find excerpts below:
Kavanaugh madness echoes time when Democrats tried to take over my state with craziness
Fox News
Leah Vukmir
October 5, 2018
Leah Vukmir
October 5, 2018
Senators walked out on hearings to create a media spectacle. Countless delaying tactics were employed to obstruct. Virtue signaling, smears and hyperbole caused widespread chaos. Paid protesters were instructed to corner and confront the so-called “enemy.”
You may think I’m talking about the latest in the saga of Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh and how extremist Democrats are doing everything in their power to block his confirmation. You are correct. But what we’re seeing today with the Kavanaugh nomination are the same intimidation schemes those on the left implements whenever their ideas don’t win at the ballot box.
In my home state of Wisconsin, we saw the full force of what liberals are willing to do when our state Capitol was under siege in 2011 during the debate over collective bargaining. When we Republicans proposed giving local government more flexibility over how tax dollars are spent – rather than caving to the public-sector unions – you would have thought we were proposing the end of the world.
For our safety, my fellow Republican state legislators and I discovered there were underground tunnels that allowed us to exit the Capitol and safely get home to our families.
Protesters chained themselves to the railing in the Senate gallery during the session. Our Capitol building endured incredible amounts of damage that required significant restoration and repair.
Town hall meetings were hijacked by people who thought being belligerent was more important than participating in reasonable dialogue. I personally had death threats directed at me and my kids because I was keeping my campaign promises.
During the height of the debate, I remember sitting in a room off the Senate chambers, listening to protesters blowing loud horns and incessantly chanting.
The pressure urging us to cave was intense. I remember telling my colleagues: “We cannot back down. If we fail, no other state will consider the reforms we are attempting here.”
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We didn’t always have such a strong economy in Wisconsin. Only after I took on an incumbent first-term Democrat and won did we have the numbers in the state Senate needed to enact bold reforms.
And now I see myself in a position where I can’t sit on the sidelines anymore when America needs U.S. senators who will enact real change. We need to confirm Judge Kavanaugh and send my Democratic opponent in the Nov. 6 election, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, packing. We need serious people with serious solutions in Washington, and Tammy Baldwin isn’t one of them.
Years ago I joked that I wanted to take Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher’s idea of starting a “rent a spine” business. But right now, it looks like Washington just needs more people like me to take their spines to the halls of the U.S. Senate.
I won’t buckle, and I will force other weak-kneed elected officials to buck up, do the right thing, and ignore the absurd shenanigans of the extreme left.
