"Eric Hovde, a Republican candidate for Senate in Wisconsin, floated the bizarre idea that people in nursing homes should be disenfranchised because they’re simply too close to death to be 'in a point to vote.'”
Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde (R) said in 2017 that, if it were up to him, alcohol would only be available to people who brew or distill it themselves, Rolling Stone reports.
Acknowledging that it would be difficult to wind back the commercialization of alcohol, Hovde went on to say: “The horse is out of the barn, and it’s going to be hard to put back.”
“Republican Eric Hovde made his campaign to take on Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-#Wisconsin) official, handing the GOP one of the final pieces to their 2024 map puzzle in a key battleground state.
Hovde, a Madison-ara businessman, gives Republicans a potentially formidable candidate in one of the trickiest battleground states..”