John Nichols: Wisconsinites want empowered state treasurer

Sixty-two percent of the voters in the April election signaled that they wanted to keep the treasurer’s position. And no serious observer imagined that the people wanted simply to keep the treasurer’s job on the list of the state’s constitutional offices. They wanted an actual state treasurer, with the powers that were traditionally associated with the office.

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John Nichols: Wisconsinites want empowered state treasurer

Sixty-two percent of the voters in the April election signaled that they wanted to keep the treasurer’s position. And no serious observer imagined that the people wanted simply to keep the treasurer’s job on the list of the state’s constitutional offices. They wanted an actual state treasurer, with the powers that were traditionally associated with the office.

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