Robin Vos' plan puts politics ahead of health

The Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature apparently believe the state doesn't need a governor unless, of course, he happens to be one of their own.

They brazenly stripped newly-elected Gov. Tony Evers of several of the governor's historically-held powers in their lame-duck session back in December of 2018, a few days before Evers was to replace Scott Walker as the state's chief executive.

That was bad enough, but now the likes of Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and his lock-step compatriots want to use the coronavirus pandemic as another excuse to move executive decision-making to their purview. All this after sitting on their hands for the past eight months while Wisconsin's health officials and the governor struggled to contain the outbreak.

Instead, they lobbed lawsuit after lawsuit to upend any of their attempts to contain the spread of the virus. Individual liberties were at stake, they claimed — liberties, apparently, to infect other people.

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