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Republicans in the Wisconsin state Senate rushed to approve 82 of Gov. Scott Walker’s appointees, a month after voters chose not to reelect the Republican.

The GOP-controlled Legislature has been working with Walker to make sure that the incoming governor and attorney general, who are both Democrats, won’t have as much power as their Republican predecessors.

They’ve passed a series of bills in a lame-duck session that amount to nothing less than a brazen partisan power grab, taking responsibilities away from the governor and attorney general and giving them to the heavily gerrymandered Wisconsin Legislature. Walker is expected to sign them in the coming days.

On Tuesday, they also approved 82 Walker appointees to serve across the state government. That’s 82 confirmations in one day, just weeks before a new governor, of a different political party, is set to take office. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has the full list of these appointees here.

The appointees include two members of the board that oversees the state’s public universities. One of those positions has been vacant for more than a year, but Walker just nominated his choice this week. He also made one of his top aides, Ellen Nowak, who is currently Department of Administration secretary, the new head of the state Public Service Commission.

In a letter to Walker on Tuesday, the incoming governor, Tony Evers, asked the governor to withdraw the names he submitted to the state Senate for approval.

“These appointments should be fully vetted in the next legislative biennium,” Evers wrote. “Many of them have had no public hearing and some have not filed a statement of economic interest. Given the rushed timing and the fact that many of these appointments have gone unfilled for extended periods of time, I must request that you withdraw this slate of names to allow ample time for full review, not only for the State Senate, but for the people of Wisconsin, too.”

Carrie Lynch, Evers’ spokeswoman, told the Wisconsin State Journal that more than 30 of the nominees have had no public hearing.

Walker spokesman Tom Evenson said 78 of the 82 appointments were sent to the Senate for confirmation “months ago.” Of the others, “3 of the 4 appointees sent to the Senate last week were due to vacancies created by recent resignations. The fourth, the student regent…was selected months ago but was not forwarded to the Senate for confirmation because it was in recess.”

Walker no doubt knows what he did is not a good look. In 2010, he urged outgoing Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle not to “finalize any permanent civil service personnel” during his last two months in office.

32 of the Most Bizarre Deep-Sea Creatures Discovered

Which one is your favorite?

November 7:

Republicans file a lawsuit claiming that “signature verification [of ballots cast by mail] must stop when polls close,” and demanding that the court “stop the counting of such ballots that have been verified after then.”

The lawsuit specifically targets the two largest urban counties in Arizona for allowing votes to “help clear up signature problems up to five days after the election.” Purely by coincidence, these two counties are the “center of support” for Democrat Krysten Sinema.

November  8:

The court rules: “Counties should continue doing what they’re doing.”

Faced with public backlash, Republicans claim they never meant to stop vote counting: “Our intent was never to suppress.”

Sinema takes the lead, with votes coming from “the two counties singled out by Republicans in their lawsuit.”

November 9:

Republicans agree to “settle” the lawsuit, allowing all 15 Arizona counties up to November 14 “to fix problems with ballots.”

Republicans also claim that’s what they wanted all along, calling it “a really great day for us.”

November 12:

Sinema wins the election.

What is FACT, then? According to reporting from the Washington Post, it seems to be little more than a “charity” pass-through for wealthy conservatives to pass funds to Matthew G. Whitaker. Over three years, Whitaker raked in $1.2 million as the charity’s only apparent employee.

Whitaker’s 2017 pay from the charity — more than $500,000 for the first nine months, or half the charity’s receipts for the year, according to tax filings — and the group’s earlier, dormant incarnation have not been previously reported by media.

That’s not the only dodgy thing about FACT, either.

The Post reports that the nonprofit went through several iterations of name and supposed mission (it started out as a supposed “environmental policy” group, of all things) before landing on the new plan of being a one-employee shell seemingly designed to promote Matthew Whitaker, personally; it’s not clear the IRS ever approved this latest, strangest incarnation. Who, precisely, was making the donations in the first place has been carefully shielded from the public eye—it could be only a handful of wealthy donors, or even a single wealthy man who just liked the ever-lovin’ hell out of the idea of giving Whitaker, personally, an important, TV-worthy title. The other two members of the charity’s board, consisting of a Whitaker former law partner and another conservative activist, were unwilling to talk to the Post, which is always a red flag.

And at least one of the people on the charity’s prior IRS filings doesn’t know how his name even got there.

“I never signed anything,” [Noah Wall] said. “I’m not entirely sure what any of this is.”

Remember, the DCCC is an unregulated “Leadership” Campaign Fund. Just like the one in which Paul Ryan received the Koch brothers $500,000 “campaign donation” after last year’s tax cut. (“Gosh, Mr. Bill, if Paulie is retiring, why does he need campaign donationations?”).

White girls: *get lip injections*

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