This Week in Statehouse Action: Wake Me Up edition

…when September ends. 

(Get it?)

Because September is very much ending.

And Election Day is less than six weeks away.

So! What’s up in those down-ballot races that get short shrift in every missive that’s not this one?

Glad you asked!

But this week we’re gonna talk less about electing people and more about electing laws, basically.

It’s a little bit of a journey, though, so bear with me!

And this journey starts in the Badger State.

Wake Me Up Before You Go Go:

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has called a special session of the Wisconsin legislature for Oct. 4.

The reason? 

To give Wisconsinites a greater say in the laws that rule their lives:

• Twenty-five (technically 26, but the Mississippi constitutional requirement that petition signatures come from five congressional districts in a state that’s had just four districts since 2000 makes that one moot until the legislature bothers to fix it) …