Can Walker replace Senators out of state?

[joeglow3]

I was listening to a local investment show. It is a love-hate thing as I love the investment talk, but get pissed when the cross over to their RW talking points (fortunately, not too often). Well, this morning they were talking about Wisconsin and said Walker should be able to declare the Senators positions as abandoned and, per Wisconsin law, appoint their replacements.

Does he have this power? Would he have the balls to hang Republicans nationwide?

[shraby]

1. No he can't do that to a duly elected official. The official would

have to formally resign the position he had been elected to.
If you remember, a recently elected congressman had a stroke he had to recover from, and he didn't lose his seat, and Giffords is still holding her seat until she recovers.
Only a dictator can do what you asked about.

[DBoon]

5. "Only a dictator can do what you asked about"

meaning we should expect something like this very soon....

[joeglow3]

7. I know it varies state-by-state.

Here in Omaha, we have a city council representative who had a stroke. After he was unable to perform his job for something like 90 days, they mayor got to replace him. On that note, we had a Demcocratic mayor and this was a Republican council member. He chose to pick a Republican, stating that it is a heavily Republican district and he wanted to make sure their voice was heard. Fortunately, we still hold a 4-3 advantage. However, we could have had a 5-2 super-majority and does anyone for a second think a Republican would have done the same.

Anyway, I was curious what the Wisconsin law was.

[Critters2]

2. Even if he could remove them, which I doubt, replacements would have to be

elected from their districts. Removing people's representatives would only energize those supporting them. He probably can't do it, but if he tried it would bite him in the ass.

[inademv]

Speaking of senator replacement

What's the status with the idea of recalling the Republican senators?

[Imajika]

3. No, I don't think Walker has any power like that...

That was just right wing fantasy.

And yeah, I hear you on the love/hate thing when it comes to investments shows. Most of the hosts seem to be conservatives. I listen for some investment stuff, but find I often have to turn them off once they start talking politics.

[undeterred]

4. He has no balls.

[FBaggins]

6. Possibly, yes... but it would be a mistake to try.

And it wouldn't be Walker, it would have to be the remaining Senators.

I'd love to see 'em try though. If they think there's a popular uprising against them... they haven't seen anything yet.

[madmom]

8. I heard yesterday that at least one of the senators is still

"working" by using assistants.

[FBaggins]

9. They can get around that.

What they would probably do (if they wanted to try it - which I doubt) would be to pass a rule that says that if a "call of the House" is issued, you lose your seat if you don't return within a given period of time. It probably would be done as a "vacancy", since it takes 2/3 of the elected Senators to actually expel a member.